WHEN European education ministers met in Bologna in 1999 and promised within a decade to forge a common market for universities, it seemed mere Euro-rhetoric.

• 1999年欧洲教育部长们齐聚博洛尼亚时曾许诺十年内为各大学创造一个共同市场，这似乎只是欧洲一体化的辞令。