4000 Euros to Validate Their Enrollment at the University of Strasbourg: Foreign Students Risk Exclusion because They Cannot Pay

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37 extra-Community foreign students have been deregistered from the University of Strasbourg. They have not paid their tuition fees, much higher than those of students from countries of the European Union. The university defends itself, considering that it is only applying the law.

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On Thursday, 16 April, about 150 people gathered in front of the University's Presidency building on the Esplanade campus to protest against the cancellation of some 50 foreign students at the end of March. Originally from countries outside the European Union, they were unable to pay the increased registration fees imposed on them.

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The challenge against differentiated enrolment fees for non-European students continues at the University of Strasbourg. More than 300 extra-Community Master's students are involved. A hundred students and inter-unions mobilized on Thursday 16 April in front of the presidency of the University of Strasbourg (Unistra).

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37 foreign students did not manage to pay the new registration fee of 3,941 euros. They are 254 euros for the French. The presidency of the University of Strasbourg announced on 16 April that it still intends to cancel them. Later in the day, demonstrators interrupted a board of directors.