In the media
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Mayor of Zwartewaterland under scrutiny over ancillary positions01 October 2024Dutch Mayor Eddy Bilder has once again come under scrutiny over his ancillary positions. He was previously the subject of negative media attention due...
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Do civil servants in The Hague feel free to make recommendations to the House?30 September 2024Recently, Prime Minister Dirk Schoof caused quite the stir in the political arena of The Hague following the release of policy documents on the asylum...
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No social safety net for PGB caregivers24 September 2024An acute shortage of social care staff means that family members often quit their jobs to care for relatives with severe disabilities. This seems too ...
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Denmark is an unsuitable model country for Dutch asylum policy23 September 2024Mark Klaassen, Assistant Professor of Immigration Law and member of the Dutch Advisory Council on Migration, explains on Dutch radio programme ‘Met he...
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What next – emergency measures or an emergency Act?23 September 2024Negative advice from top officials shows that declaring an asylum crisis in the Netherlands based on emergency immigration law is unacceptable from a ...
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Bart Custers on tech companies involved in criminal activities20 September 2024Governments are increasingly cracking down on tech companies like X, Telegram and Clearview that flout the law, with a fine, ban or criminal prosecuti...
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How Princess Laurentien became entangled in a politically sensitive government responsibility17 September 2024Research conducted by Dutch news programme ‘Nieuwsuur’ into the work carried out by Princess Laurentien of the Netherlands for victims of the childcar...
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Emergency measures to tackle ‘asylum crisis’ are not legally feasible17 September 2024The Dutch government wants to use emergency measures in its asylum policy. Asylum Minister Marjolein Faber believes this has also been legally tested....
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Children are afraid to say the wrong thing to judges in divorce proceedings16 September 2024Do courts take children's experiences properly into account in divorce proceedings? Research by Villa Pinedo shows that children often fear saying the...
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Bart Custers comments on Telegram’s catalogue of crimes13 September 2024Instant messaging app Telegram is not faring well in the news – the reason being the illicit activities occurring on the platform. Professor Bart Cust...
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Does the Netherlands still have an extraparliamentary cabinet?10 September 2024
A clear, unambiguous definition of an extraparliamentary cabinet is still lacking from the political arena of The Hague. Caroline van der Plas, Farmer...
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Abuse of Vlaardingen foster child reveals youth care problems10 September 2024Months after the case of the abused foster child from Vlaardingen (Zuid-Holland) came to light, many questions still remain. Why was the child not lis...
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Self-employed workers uneasy about approach to sham self-employment10 September 2024The Dutch Tax and Customs Authority is planning to start enforcing income tax and contribution obligations again following a moratorium lasting severa...
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Bart Custers writes blog post on judge who used ChatGPT09 September 2024
This month, it came out that a subdistrict court judge used ChatGPT to formulate a ruling. The judge included some text generated by the popular AI ch...
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Bart Custers discusses fake news on facial recognition at Jumbo09 September 2024
Misleading social media posts are falsely claiming that the Dutch supermarket chain Jumbo uses facial recognition at self-service checkouts. Jumbo den...