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Dutch asylum policy remains thorny issue 24 May 2023
The Hague has announced that 70,000 refugees are expected to come to the Netherlands this year. How can situations like at the Ter Apel asylum centre ...
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Armin Cuyvers on nitrogen policy following Timmermans' visit to The Hague 12 April 2023
There is no time to lose when it comes to repairing damage to nature. For that reason and to show that the European Commission is neither a ‘bogeyman’...
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Luuk van Middelaar on EU Green Deal Industrial Plan 06 February 2023
Following developments in the US, the EU has now also opened the door for large-scale State aid to its own sustainable industries. A means to curb Chi...
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Mark Klaassen and Olaf van Vliet discuss European labour migrants in FD 04 October 2022
The Netherlands cannot stop European labour migrants coming here. Nor does The Hague have much influence on the influx of asylum seekers. But experts ...
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Interview with Christa Tobler in de “Hofvijver” (Montesquieu Instituut) 30 June 2021
On Monday 28 June 2021, a text based on an interview with Christa Tobler appeared in the Hofvijver (Montesquieu Instituut) on the relationship between...
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Prof Luuk van Middelaar guest professor at the Collège de France, Paris 22 March 2021
From 24 March 2021, Professor Luuk van Middelaar will deliver four public lectures on 'Geopolitical Europe: Acts and words' at the Collège de France i...
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Save the (firefighter)volunteer from EU law: Geerten Boogaard and Armin Cuyvers in newspaper Trouw 18 March 2021
The Dutch Minister of Justice and Security is about to turn the entire volunteer fire brigade upside down. Not because it is good, but because it is a...
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High level appointment for EIBL alumnus Martin Richardson 04 March 2021
Martin Richardson, who graduated in 1997 from what was then the Leiden LLM Programme in European Community Law (now: Leiden Adv LLM European and Inter...
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Christa Tobler in the media about Brexit and Switzerland 05 January 2021
In the days following Christmas, Christa Tobler gave a series of interviews to Swiss newspapers and Swiss radio about the new Trade and Cooperation Ag...
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Dutch nationals abroad can lose Dutch nationality when passport expires 08 December 2020
Around 23,500 Dutch nationals have been affected by this rule This was revealed by government figures on the number of Dutch nationals who submit an a...
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Peter Rodrigues on legal action against the State on ethnic profiling 13 October 2020
Two citizens, together with organisations including Amnesty International, antidiscrimination agency RADAR and the Dutch Section of the International ...
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Armin Cuyvers on Brexit and the UK elections in BNR National News Radio 10 September 2020
On Wednesday 9 November, Armin Cuyvers was interviewed on the already infamous UK ‘Internal Market Bill', which was published that day.
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Peter Rodrigues on ethnic profiling at Royal Netherlands Marechaussee 27 February 2020
Victims of ethnic profiling have commenced legal proceedings against the Royal Netherlands Marechaussee. Peter Rodrigues, Professor of Immigration Law...
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Back again: border controls in the Schengen area 10 February 2020
Jorrit Rijpma responds in Dutch newspaper the Volkskrant to attention surrounding the reintroduction of border controls in the Schengen area.
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Room to tighten legislation on family reunification? 10 February 2020
In order to reduce the great flow of asylum seekers the Netherlands – and also other European countries – is faced with, the review of the entitlement...