In the media
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Mariëlle Bruning featured on Op1 special on Dutch youth care16 May 2023Recently, the Dutch Health and Youth Care Inspectorate sounded the alarm about the state of the Dutch youth care. What is going wrong and what needs t...
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Rowie Stolk on individual companies being targeted in test cases15 May 2023Interest group Animal Rights has started a test case to prompt the Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA) to tackle farmers who...
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Anne Meuwese on EU's impending AI regulation11 May 2023This regulation – also known as the AI Act – aims to ensure that AI systems sold and used in the EU are safe and consistent with existing fundamental ...
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Alex Geert Castermans in Het Parool on the right to swim topless10 May 2023In Berlin, regulations have recently been amended to allow everyone to swim topless. In swimming pools in Amsterdam, women are still required to wear ...
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Bart Custers in NRC on insurers' role in fraud cases09 May 2023Insurers determine for themselves whether someone has committed fraud, impose sanctions immediately and hardly ever report it. As a result, police, pr...
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Sjoerd Lopik in Mr. Online on environmental criminal law09 May 2023Dutch online news platform Mr. Online interviewed external PhD student Sjoerd Lopik about the development of environmental criminal law in the Netherl...
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Asylum seekers still sent back to Italy by IND08 May 2023A recent ruling by the Dutch Council of State indicates that asylum seekers may no longer be sent back to Italy. The Council of State increasingly con...
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Helen Duffy about Abu Zubaydah who remains unlawfully detained in Guantánamo Bay04 May 2023In two moving articles, Dutch newspaper Trouw has reported on the lengthy detention of Abu Zubaydah in Guantánamo Bay. Zubaydah was tortured over a pe...
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Do breakaway groups in the Dutch House of Representatives have the right to vote?03 May 2023In Dutch newspaper NRC, Pieter Omtzigt says he finds it 'unconstitutional' that he has no right to vote in committee meetings. Omtzigt believes he is ...
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Barend Barentsen in Dagblad van het Noorden on aggression in the workplace01 May 2023A national survey conducted by Dutch newspapers Dagblad van het Noorden, Turbantia, Brabants Dagblad and the Dutch Federation of Trade Unions (FNV) sh...
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Richard de Mos acquitted – and now?01 May 2023The acquittal of Richard de Mos and his fellow party member has caused quite a stir in the Netherlands. Can De Mos simply return to local politics now...
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Rowie Stolk on NPO Radio 1 about passport alerts26 April 2023
In the Netherlands, anyone who loses their passport or ID card too often can be added to the Passport Alerts Register. As a result, a passport applica...
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Wouter Hins on NPO Radio 1 about revoking licence of Ongehoord Nederland26 April 2023The Dutch public broadcasting organisation NPO has asked State Secretary for Culture and Media Gunay Uslu to revoke the licence of Ongehoord Nederland...
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Bart Schermer on how to negotiate with cybercriminals21 April 2023Hackers have got their hands on data from the Royal Dutch Football Association (KNVB). Lockbit, a collective of cybercriminals, is after the money. Wh...
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Podcast: How open is our governance culture?19 April 2023A ‘new governance culture’ – a hot topic for a number of years now. What kind of culture of public administration do we have in the Netherlands and ho...