My daily selection of the most interesting news on the internets:

• Europe 2020: the new Lisbon strategy – Ideas for Europe in 2020 and a new Lisbon strategy from the Dutch Social Economic Council.
• Bologna Process ’stifling creative thinking’ – The Bologna process, which aims to harmonise academic standards and remove barriers to mobility of students and teachers, focuses on results instead of encouraging in-depth study and critical thinking, Spiekermann said.
• Andrew Moravcsik on the EU Elections – The fact that 43.4 percent of Europeans—around 160 million people—turned out to vote for a body of politicians that allegedly “no one cares about” is actually quite remarkable. Surely, American commentators should not cast stones: turnout in midterm U.S. elections is generally lower. Even more important, prophets of a Euro-malaise miss the most important fact about EU democracy: European elections are not about Europe.
• University refunds tuition fees to foreign students – Foreign students will be refunded over half a million kroner in tuition fees paid as part of a European exchange masters programme.
• Is freely available research better disseminated? – Are freely availably scientific papers better disseminated? Many believe so, but this column presents new evidence suggesting that the higher number of citations received by open access papers is mostly due to a difference in quality. Nevertheless, there is a problem of access to the scientific literature in developing countries that needs to be addressed.

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