June 21, 2002

Educating Europe's Best and Brightest

By FRANCIS X. ROCCA

A graduate school mirrors the benefits and problems of integrating the European Union

While peacocks roam the terraced garden outside the 15th-century Villa Schifanoia, seminars in European law and history unfold inside. In the Badia Fiesolana, once an abbey patronized by the Medici and frequented by some of the greatest Renaissance humanists, modern students work on doctoral theses in economics and political science. From nearly every window, scholars at the European University

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