In the media
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Podcast: How open is our governance culture? 19 April 2023
A ‘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...
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Peter Rodrigues about the demands of municipalities when it comes to housing asylum seekers 19 April 2023
Municipalities are becoming more and more selective when it comes to the nationality, age and sex of the asylum seekers they are willing to take in. T...
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Carsten Stahn on colonial crimes; the reparations movement stalls in Europe 12 April 2023
The wave of restitutions expected after French President Emmanuel Macron’s 2017 promise to return stolen art to Africa has hit legal and political roa...
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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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Age determination in young asylum seekers under discussion 12 April 2023
The way age is determined by the IND is being questioned as a result of several court rulings. The problem is that it is difficult to determine whethe...
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Annemarie Drahmann on new European regulations for stallholders 12 April 2023
There is much unrest among local stallholders in Utrecht. Owners who for decades had a permanent pitch for their stall are no longer guaranteed this d...
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No-confidence votes in Rutte IV cabinet continue to rise 11 April 2023
The tally now stands at a 19th no-confidence motion in the Rutte IV cabinet, though it is just one year old. All Rutte cabinets combined have faced mo...
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Christa Tobler on the mutual recognition of professional qualifications 11 April 2023
New publication by Christa Tobler and co-author Joel Günthardt on the mutual recognition of professional qualifications
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Voermans and Drahmann positive about Advisory Board on public access to government information 05 April 2023
Today, the Dutch Advisory Board on public access and government information (ACOI) issued its opinion on how the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport...
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Dutch Urgenda climate change case inspires other Europeans 30 March 2023
Several cases inspired by the Urgenda case have now been filed. For example, by the Portuguese, concerning widespread forest fires, Swiss women of a s...
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Daniëlla Dam-de Jong on Vanuatu resolution on addressing the climate crisis 30 March 2023
Vanuatu, a Pacific island state vulnerable to rising sea levels and increasingly violent storms, initiated a resolution to be submitted to the United ...
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Researchers Tax Law in Trouw on potential tax avoidance Cargill 28 March 2023
Dutch newspaper Trouw investigated the tax position of multinational Cargill. Their conclusion? Cargill appears not to pay taxes over their profits. T...
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Geerten Boogaard not concerned about conflict of interests at BBB 27 March 2023
The fact that a significant number of seats in the Dutch provincial councils are now occupied by members of the Dutch Farmer-Citizen Movement (BoerBur...
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Mariëlle Bruning in the media on new agreement in Dutch youth care 24 March 2023
Mariëlle Bruning, Professor of Children and the Law at Leiden University, responded in various media to the new draft agreement aimed at reducing work...
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Simone van der Hof on RTL Nieuws about rights of 'kidfluencers' 23 March 2023
Mums posting photos and videos of their child on Instagram and TikTok and also earning loads of money doing so. Kidfluencers, momvloggers and familyvl...