{"id":234468,"date":"2026-09-01T12:49:02","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T12:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/09\/01\/orban-backed-brussels-think-tank-mcc-brussels-to-close-after-funding-cut\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T12:49:02","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T12:49:02","slug":"orban-backed-brussels-think-tank-mcc-brussels-to-close-after-funding-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/09\/01\/orban-backed-brussels-think-tank-mcc-brussels-to-close-after-funding-cut\/","title":{"rendered":"Orb\u00e1n-backed Brussels think tank MCC Brussels to close after funding cut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MCC Brussels, the Eurosceptic think tank established by Viktor Orb\u00e1n\u2019s government, is shutting down after losing its Hungarian state funding. Its director, Frank Furedi, resigned in protest, describing the decision to wind down the organisation as \u201cunprofessional and childish.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2026\/09\/01\/orban-backed-brussels-think-tank-mcc-brussels-to-close-after-funding-cut\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MCC Brussels, the Eurosceptic think tank established by Viktor Orb\u00e1n\u2019s government, is shutting down after losing its Hungarian state funding. Its director, Frank Furedi, resigned in protest, describing the decision to wind down the organisation as \u201cunprofessional and childish.\u201d Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":234469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}