The Legal Impact of Bologna Implementation – Exploring

1. This Paper reviews some of the critical assessments of the Bologna Process (hereafter ‘BP’), notably by Neave & Amaral (2008) and Teichler (2007). Other secondary material referred to includes: Reinalda & Kulesza (2006), Corbett (2005), and Greatrix (2005). It is arguable that the BP is part of the generally over-bureaucratic and very costly context of EU continent-wide activity, except one that (perhaps depressingly) involves a much larger range of nations than those which are formally members of the EU. I do here need to declare an interest in that I am what, in the UK, we call a ‘Eurosceptic’, perceiving the EU to be a grotesquely expensive, fraudulent and sclerotic entity that is in grave danger of its major original advantage (probably avoiding a third European civil war during the second half of the last century) being significantly outweighed by its growing disadvantage as now an overinterventionist and over-ambitious and under-competent example of ‘Big Government’.