In the media
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Jan Vleggeert: published memo 'quite remarkable' 06 July 2021At the end of June 2021, The Dutch Ministry of Finance made a policy document public that dates back to 2016. In it, civil servants acknowledge that t...
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‘12-year-olds capable of deciding about vaccination with assistance’ 06 July 2021Children aged between 12 and 17 years can decide themselves whether they want to be vaccinated or not. Experts say that children are capable of taking...
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Interview with Christa Tobler in de “Hofvijver” (Montesquieu Instituut) 30 June 2021On 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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'Hesitancy in implementing what is already meagre asylum policy’ 25 June 2021The Moria deal has been marked as a controversial issue in the formation process for a new Dutch government – a development that fits with the governm...
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Carsten Stahn: 'New ICC prosecutor can bring new momentum' 18 June 2021On Wednesday 16 June 2021, Karim Khan was sworn in at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague. Experts say this is no easy time to join th...
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Tanja Masson-Zwaan: 'Rules in space are to everyone’s advantage' 15 June 2021Space is of enormous strategic value. Having rules in space therefore is to everyone’s advantage.
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'If a country is not safe, it will not become wealthy' 08 June 2021Over the past 20 years, levels of common crime throughout the world dropped, except in countries that are plagued by poverty, have large families and ...
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Income-based fines coming in the Netherlands? 07 June 2021In many European countries, the amount of a fine is based on the level of your income. This already exists in Finland, Sweden, Germany, France, and Sp...
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Mariëlle Bruning: No complete figures on waiting lists for youth care 03 June 2021
The waiting lists in youth care are alarmingly long. This has been confirmed again by a study carried out by the Dutch foundation The Forgotten Child.
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Steven Truxal on aviation incident with Belarus 28 May 2021Government leaders have been searching for words to condemn the actions of Belarus which intercepted a passenger aircraft flying from Athens to Vilniu...
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Eric De Brabandere: 'Ruling against Shell will inspire other cases' 28 May 2021For the first time, a court has ordered a company to reduce its carbon dioxide emissions. Lawyers see it as a landmark ruling that will have far-reach...
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Bashir Azizi: ‘Not war or civil war, but a global civil war’ 28 May 2021These days we do not just have wars and civil wars – more of a global civil war, says Bashir Azizi, who received a PhD in April 2020 for his thesis on...
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eLaw publishes in Nature 27 May 2021Researchers of eLaw, the Center for Law and Digital Technologies at Leiden University, published their research in Nature Machine Intelligence. The pu...
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Stories from Europe’s borderlands: A podcast series about living with, and resistance to, Europe's borders 10 May 2021In the upcoming months, PhD candidates Neske Baerwaldt (FdR / VVI) and Wiebe Ruijtenberg (FSW / CAOS) will produce the ethnographic podcast series ‘Gr...
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Article on Global Pandemic Treaty co-authored by Ginevra Le Moli in The Lancet 30 April 2021The article deals with an issue that will be at the heart of the World Health Assembly to be held in May, namely the concept of ‘deep prevention’ and ...