tim... wrote:

"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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In message , at 09:42:13 on
Mon, 18 Jul 2016, Optimist remarked:
Switzerland was excluded from the Erasmus student exchange programme
when
they voted to restrict free movement of people two years ago. So there
are
precedents for exclusion.

According to the Erasmus website participating countries include non-EU
Iceland, Liechtenstein,
Macedonia, Norway & Turkey.

EEA and accession states.

Yes, Turkey, due to accede in 1,000 years or 10 years, depending on
whether you listen to Cameron or
Major.

In any case, why limit it to Europe, why not a scheme for the whole the
world?

I'm not sufficiently familiar with Erasmus to be able to answer that.
--
Roland Perry

quote from wonkypedia:

"There are currently more than 4,000 higher institutions participating in
Erasmus across the 33 countries involved in the Erasmus programme and by
2013..."

as 33 is 5 more than the number of countries in the EU, it is clear that
being a member of the EU is not a pre-requisite to being within Erasmus, so
all those claiming that it is, are lying


I said it was about free movement of people, not about EU membership.
Anyhow, I've done a few seconds of research rather than relying on
remembering news reports from two years ago, and found this:

http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus-plus/updates/20140128-participation-switzerland-erasmus-plus_en


Anna Noyd-Dryver