European Professional Doctorate

[Unlucky]

Generally speaking, you're going to run into local vs. international pricing at most universities, especially within the EU. US universities also do it and, in some cases it's really extreme.  For universities within the EU, you may be able to find programs that are free to EU citizens but that cost several thousand to everyone else. It's because tax dollars subsidize the costs. If you're not a resident of the country or countries in question, you pay more.

That said, what kind of degree are you looking for? Just LLD or what? Your post isn't very clear.

Thank you for your reply. I completely understand your point of view, especially when it comes to tax payers, but at least in the US, they do it in a fair manner. They have clear in-state and out-of-the-state tuition fees visible to everyone to see. Everybody from outside of the particular state will pay the same listed price.

Unfortunately, this isn’t always the case in Europe. Some (shady) schools will charge you based on where you’re personally from. For example, if they think you’re from a wealthy Middle Eastern country like the UAE, they will charge you for a hefty price that is sometimes 4 times higher than the usual out-of-state fees. I had a similar encounter with FVES mentioned by Thomas, despite the fact that I have nothing to with the Emirates. They tried to charge me $10k for a program that I know from various online sources it doesn’t cost more than $2.5k. Just because they confused my name for someone they think is from the UAE. This, to me, is just immoral and unethical. And the solution is simply to have visible prices for everyone to see like in the US; i.e., prices for citizens and prices for internationals.

Charging for a price based on what they think your income is can be perceived as a discriminatory behavior, which should not have a place in educational institutions. 

Thank you,

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My needs for the study is merely knowledge gaps and research practice, so I don’t care much about accreditations or whether it’s a Titulo Propio certificate, as long as the institution has some legal incorporation and/or granting power to have some assurance of program quality.

Not sure what you mean by "some legal incorporation", also not caring about accreditations yet wanting some assurance of program quality seems a bit contradictory to me.
CIE is legally incorporated as a limited liability company. I'm almost sure there is nothing that could be named "granting power" with them, I even doubt presence of any assurance of program quality.  Basically it's a business  selling courses on anything they can that doesn't require accreditation in Czech. People behind it have connection to FVES (Czech "branch" of Jagiellonian College in Toruń), maybe that's where most of their degrees are from.
Collegium Humanum at least is a private university (which doesn't mean their degrees like LLD LLM are accredited, I'd bet they are offering it as professional education).

I seek education primarily for personal development, knowledge, and fulfillment. By “legal incorporation,” I mean the institution must be lawfully authorized to offer education within its own country and should not be a “degree mill.” My indifference towards accreditations is merely to broaden the scope of suggestions and recommendations, without confining them to cost-prohibitive RA, triple business accreditation, or Ivy League institutions.

To my understanding, countries like France and Switzerland permit private schools to operate legally with certain government approvals, without necessitating accreditations. While these schools may not have the same recognition as state-recognized public institutions, it does not inherently imply inferior education quality, particularly for someone like me who does not intend to leverage the certification professionally. However, institutions in France and Switzerland exceed my budget.

Per their websites, Czech CIE is associated with the Slovak St. Elizabeth College of Health and Social Work, and Czech FVES is affiliated with the Polish Akademia Jagiellońska. I’ve mentioned both schools in my initial post and my first reply, respectively.