The future of the European Higher Education Area. The Knowledge Economy or just the Money?

In earlier publications we have argued that the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) and the European Research Area (ERA) are already well advanced.1 Not perfect, but at least tangible. The European Court of Justice (ECJ) defined its features through a series of rulings. We have put the Bressol/Chaverot preliminary ruling2 in this series with a view to national and uropean policies of the future; as a next building brick of the EHEA.3 This inspired us to elaborate a little on the interesting analysis of the Bressol-case by Sacha Garben in this journal.4 Some parts of the Court’s decision we read differently in a more forward looking perspective. Whether we are less pessimistic than Garben depends on the question: pessimistic about who?