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… zijn dominante positie in het culturele debat. “Ik vraag me af wat hen er van weerhoudt om meer politieke standpunten in te nemen. Misschien zijn ze bang om als radicaal te worden gezien en op die manier hun kans te verspelen om deel te worden van de mainstreamcultuur.” Omgekeerd merkt Meissner op dat duurzaamheid wordt geframed in termen van ethiek en niet van hedonisme. “Kan een circulaire deeleconomie zorgen voor een minder stressvol, eenvoudiger leven, meer welzijn, et cetera?” “Ik hoop dat ik …
… Research has indicated that volunteering and helping behaviors at work, i.e.service or citizenship behaviors, may potentially be harmful for one’s career as less time may be spent on one’s core tasks. As citizenship behaviors contribute to the maintenance and enhancement of the socio-psychological context that supports task performance and, thus, organizational functioning (Podsakoff, Ahearne, & MacKenzie, 1997; Walz & Niehoff, 2000), organizations implicitly highly value citizenship …
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… initiative to create a Global Fund aimed at collecting 600 million dollar to fill the financial gap created by the Trump decision. She has launched a call to potential donors (governmental and non-state actors) to obtain the funding that is needed to maintain the sexual and reproductive health rights programs in developing countries (see shedecides ). The Netherlands have donated € 10 million. So far positive reactions have already been received from the governments of Brazil, Rwanda, Canada and …
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… many countries. Not so long ago yet another earthquake took place close to the same area, reminding the potentially devastating effects of tsunamis, but especially of nuclear accidents. In the 1960s international conventions were created of which the main goal was to protect the (American) owners of the nuclear material that was delivered to European nuclear operators. Since liability was exclusively channelled towards operators in Europe only operators and no longer other parties could be held … 16, 165-187 and Faure, M., Liu, J. and Wibisana, A., “Industrial accidents, natural disasters and ‘Act of God’” , Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law , 2015, Vol. 43, 383-450. Image: Fukushima, IAEA fact-finding team leader Mike Weightman visits the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant on 27 May 2011 to assess tsunami damage and study nuclear safety lessons that could be learned from the accident. Copyright: IAEA Imagebank. Photo Credit: Greg Webb / IAEA. Published on Law Blogs Maastricht Labels: privaatrecht METRO milieu Internationaal recht M.G. Faure Andere blogs: General Alumni Arts and Social Sciences Business and Economics Corona Heath, Medicine and Life Sciences Law Maastricht …
![Prof. dr. Martin Paul](/sites/default/files/2023-03/martin-paul-nl.jpg)
… my command of Dutch was not as good as it is now, I met with an important local politician to discuss a large grant. For some reason the meeting was not running smoothly. We managed to work things out despite differing interpretations, but the mood remained awkward. When we parted ways, I offered my guest an exit ticket for the car park by offering him an uitvaartkaartje (drawing on my native German). I had no idea that uitvaart translates to ‘funeral’ rather than anything car park related. …
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… with during a recent hearing in the Dutch Parliament, where I was invited to make the case for English as an expert. What were my arguments? First of all, I made it clear that the question should not polarise us as academics. Of course there must remain a place for Dutch educational programmes in the Netherlands. Even at Maastricht University, the most international university in the Netherlands and the 14th most international university in the world, according to Times Higher Education’s recent …
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… featured misinformation, a strong disregard for the opinion of experts, outright lies and arguments primarily geared at engaging people emotionally – by making them fear an exit, or by making them fear what would (continue to) happen if they remain. This kind of argumentation is unlikely to lead to a decision that is (intended to be) for the benefit of all, instead of only for the benefit of those actually in favour of the final decision. Returning to Plato and Aristotle, they thought a just …
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Op 29 april gingen in Maastricht Bas Eickhout (Europese Groenen), Frans Timmermans (Europese Socialisten), Violeta Tomić (Europees Links), Guy Verhofstadt (Liberalen en Democraten voor Europa) en Jan Zahradil (Conservatieven en Reformisten in Europa) met elkaar de strijd aan over kernthema’s rond de toekomst van Europa.
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Conducts fundamental research in the field of European private law & related areas, covering the law of contract, property & tort, & European procedural law, European legal theory & European legal history.
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… countries and 33 women one of the largest institutes in the United Nations University network ranked among the top innovation institutes in the world: above Harvard Business School and the MIT Economics Department led by Prof. Bart Verspagen UNU-MERIT website Research UNU-MERIT’s research programme is organised around eight research themes based on broadly common methodological approaches. Education UNU-MERIT offers a PhD programme in Economics and Governance , together with its School of …