Constitutional Court lifts ban on tuition fees. Welcome to a two-tier society when it comes to education. No, 500 euros per semester is not a socially acceptable fee. But that's the agenda anyway - those at the bottom are not supposed to have a chance to move up. It's all about elite universities and tuition fees creating an elite - the financial elite. And so after all these decades we've drawn a final line under equal educational opportunities - fittingly in the year when international studies confirm that we don't have much to boast about when it comes to equal opportunity in education anyway.
A nation of poets and thinkers? Not at all. A nation of sheep and fools seems more fitting...