From Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC) is Central Europe’s leading educational institution and research center.
The Jean Monnet Programme has a reach to 500,000 students annually.
The funding structure incentivises conformity with EU priorities, discourages critical perspectives, and promotes research with predetermined political outcomes. This ‘undermines the Humboldtian principles of academic autonomy’ and transforms students into ‘subjects to be moulded into “right-thinking” citizens’ .
Ex- Jean Monnet Chair Joseph H. H. Weiler candidly admitted: ‘Part of our mission as [a] Jean Monnet Professor is to disseminate the values of European integration. The EU Commission “think of us openly as intellectual ambassadors of the Union and its values”
Professors of Propaganda: How the EU’s Jean Monnet Programme corrodes academia