Ideology and Competition Key Issues Around Fudan University Budapest The ideological impact of Fudan University’s Budapest campus, as well as its potential to overpower Hungarian universities, are both key issues in Hungary’s current discourse. While the Trade Union Association of Intellectuals (ÉSZT) warns about Hungarian universities falling into Fudan’s shadow, Minister of National Innovation and Technology László Palkovics says that the Chinese state-run university can only benefit Hungary. Academic Union Warns of Fudan’s Power The Confederation of Unions of Professionals (ÉSZT) emphasized that the media has been focusing little on the effect a Chinese state-run university with an overabundance of funding and a determination to access the European intellectual and economic market will have on Hungarian universities, many which are currently being redeveloped into private foundation-run models.