In the media
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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 2021The 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 ...
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Tanja Masson-Zwaan: Still no obligation to clear up space debris 30 April 2021Space travel has long since progressed from being just about rockets, travelling to the moon, and Russia and America. The Netherlands has its own Spac...
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Symposium Findings Chalcolithic site Palloures 28 April 2021Discoveries at the Chalcolithic site Palloures, Cyprus will be presented to the public in free, online symposium next month. A team of archaeologi...
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Bart Custers: 'NCTV cannot track citizens using fake accounts' 12 April 2021For years, the Dutch National Coordinator for Security and Counterterrorism (NCTV) has collected and shared privacy-sensitive information about citize...
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'The situation with Intervence is unacceptable' 12 April 2021
The introduction of market forces in the field of youth protection has failed. This is clearly demonstrated by the unrest and problems surrounding the...
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Wimar Bolhuis: ECB intervention helped prevent euro crisis 08 April 2021Dutch Central Bank President Klaas Knot wants to wind down the European Central Bank’s crisis bond-buying programme this year because the economic out...
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Anne Meuwese and Bart Custers in Trouw on Covid apps 06 April 2021The more people are vaccinated, the more society can slowly reopen. Technological developments, like the Covid passport and other apps, can play a rol...