July 29, 2005
Court Ruling Forces Austria to Revise Foreign-Student Policy
The European Court of Justice has invalidated an Austrian law requiring students from other European Union countries to prove that they have been admitted to universities in their home nations in order to gain admission to Austrian universities. The ruling sparked fears among Austrian academics that unqualified students from other countries, chiefly Germany, would flood their campuses.
The court, which sits in Luxembourg, said the Austrian law was discriminatory because it required
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