On Tuesday 29 November, Advocate General Maciej Szpunar, explained in his conclusions presented to the Court of Justice of the European Union that there could possibly be legitimate grounds to refuse a visa to a foreign student pursuing research in the EU if the knowledge that could potentially be acquired posed a risk to “public security”.
This case (C-544/15) involves a student from Sharif University of Technology in Tehran. The German authorities refused the student’s request for a...