Unlike them, I am touched by the sight of young Muslim women on European university campuses.
Elena Carletti, professor of economics at the European University Institute in Florence, agrees that ministers have more to do.
IR You imply that the first European university was founded in Bologna in 1100.
For Molnar, who is now a senior research fellow at Central European University, the experience still smarts, eight years on.
MBAs were pioneered in 1989 by George Soros's (private) Central European University.
But modest fees and flexibility will not be enough to sustain the region as an educational magnet, says Roderick Floud, vice-president of the European University Association.
But their skills are in demand in Latin America, where a degree from a European university is seen as prestigious (although Spanish universities fare poorly in international rankings).
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And once in power, notes Peter Mair of the European University Institute in Florence, governments lose popularity more quickly, not least because they are constrained by decisions taken in Brussels.
He has been a visiting scholar at the Central European University in Prague and at Fudan University in Shanghai and is currently professor of economics at Towson University in Maryland.
Ella Paneyakh, a sociologist and legal expert at Russia's European University in St Petersburg, said the case illustrated how in President Vladimir Putin's Russia "they are getting very creative, interpreting the law very literally, in a way which does not correspond to the spirit of the law".
Dr. Michael Minkenberg, a professor of political science at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder) who has also taught at New York, Cornell and Columbia universities, said concern over immigration, law and order "and the feeling that things aren't what they used to be any more" are at the heart of support for Europe's radical right.
Michael Minkenberg, a professor of political science at Germany's European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder) who has also taught at New York, Cornell and Columbia universities, said he sees concern over immigration, law and order "and the feeling that things aren't what they used to be any more" as being at the heart of support for Europe's radical right.
To assess the impact of these changes, and better understand what MBA admissions are looking for in their applicants, I asked Pete Johnson, former executive director of Admissions for the full-time program at Berkeley-Haas, and now colleague and advisory director at Fortuna Admissions, and vice president of Student Services at Central European University in Budapest for his perspective.
Dr Roger Scully, the Director of the Centre for European Studies at University of Wales, Aberystwyth, is more bullish in his assessment.
As a positive study submitted to the European Parliament by University of Duisburg-Essen professor Ansgar Belke shows, using gold collateral to raise cheaper loans is hardly new to sovereign governments either.
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Mr. Menon is professor of West European politics at the University of Birmingham and author of "Europe: The State of the Union" (Atlantic Books, 2008).
The Tanzverbot was first established by the church and was later adopted by many city governments starting in the Middle Ages, said Wolfgang Kaschuba, director of the Institute for European Ethnology at Humboldt University in Berlin.
Professor Celeste Wallander (Russian and East European Studies, Georgetown University, Washington): Putin has been very good at casting the United States as being kind of a, you know, a rogue state in its behavior and threatening to all the countries of Europe, not just Russia, but other countries of Europe.
Prof Scott, who is an economist by training, is professor of European Union Studies at Edinburgh University.
Spain equals other European countries in numbers with university-level education, but a shocking 30% of Spaniards leave school with no qualifications worse than elsewhere.
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Mr Matthews, who is studying English and European literature at Anglia Polytechnic University, turned himself in to police after a newspaper photograph pictured him hanging from the Churchill statue.
As an American professor who has taught classes at a well-known French university in which both European and American students were enrolled, I must mention the cultural factors at play.
The current champion of that idea is Robert Mundell, winner of 1999's Nobel Prize for Economics and a professor at Columbia University who advised the European Union for 30 years, right up through the adoption of the euro in 1999.
In an article in the European Heart Journal calling for a wide-ranging overhaul of the current system, Alan Fraser from Cardiff University and other top specialists from the European Society of Cardiology highlighted a series of past failures that threatened lives.
Her father Paul Harwood is a lecturer in European literature at Taiwan's Tunghai University.
Currently the teaching of five languages face the axe at Glasgow University, where the Eastern European Centre is under threat after losing a funding revenue stream.
"The overall effect is not going to be turning a light switch off" and banishing the entire US to darkness come the stroke of midnight, says Memo Diriker, director of the European-American Business Institute at Salisbury University.
During the first 30 months of the program, 126 academic and industrial research groups spread throughout 17 European countries will be coordinated by Chalmers University of Technology and have their collective pockets filled with an initial 54 million euro budget to kick things off.
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The city's university held an academic conference on European issues in February - but no extravaganza, complete with fireworks and carnivals, is planned.
D. in European history and a law degree from Columbia University possessed an immediate significance and were not simply relics of a lost and irretrievable private past.
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