Brussels, 22/02/2012 (Agence Europe) - The provision in Dutch legislation on the funding of higher studies, which reserves the funding of studies abroad (portable funding) to students who have lived in the Netherlands for three out of the six years prior to registering, is disproportionate to the objective pursued and runs counter to the free movement of workers, states Advocate General Eleanor Sharpston, in her conclusions returned on 16 February in Case C-542/09.
The Netherlands justifies...