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… and only to cross-border trade), and expressed his hope that the instrument’s ambit will be extended in the future. It is interesting to note that this is a view shared also by Eric Clive , a fellow drafter of the DCFR and member of the Expert Group. Mark Wissink (RUG) invited a thought-provoking discussion on how CESL might operate within the Dutch legal order. This, he intimated, depended on whether one thought of CESL as an instrument of uniform law, European law, or of national law. The …
… lot of testing takes place in care centres. An explanation why the ratio of infected people to deaths in Germany is more favourable is clear: because in Germany many more people with mild complaints are tested than in the Netherlands and Belgium, the group with serious consequences is smaller. It was also suspected that the age of infected people is lower in Germany than in other countries. According to various sources (RKI, media), the situation regarding early testing was better than in … is necessary to at least talk about the same facts. By Ruben Tans, Pim Mertens and Martin Unfried. Researchers at Institute for Transnational and Euregional cross border cooperation and Mobility / ITEM Labels: corona ITEM law R.L.N. Tans Ruben Tans started working as a double degree PhD candidate at the department of International and European Law and the University of Hasselt (Belgium) in January 2021. His research focuses on the integration of beneficiaries of temporary and international …
… not to be underestimated [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]. Another vital issue to be considered is the status of EU citizens in the UK and British citizens in the remainder of the European Union. Without a deal, visas and work permits may become the norm for those groups in their host countries. Whilst ideas like a form of “ associate citizenship ” for British citizens living in the EU27 are probably closer to wishful thinking than legally compliant reality, both sides have expressed a desire to reach an … control. Finally, the UK will also need to deal with constitutional issues: Scotland is poised to launch a second independence referendum (even though this may be delayed due to disagreements between the British and the Scottish Governments) and Gibraltar has become a bone of contention between Spain and Britain. Meanwhile, in another constitutional development, the UK Government’s Brexit department has presented a White Paper on dealing with the legislative impact of Brexit. This includes repealing … ). Further, there is the status of the currently “soft” border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland (which is one of the four constituent nations of the United Kingdom, besides England, Scotland and Wales). And this does not even start to address the many intricacies involved, whether they are aviation rights, the financial services industry and the effect on UK higher education . Mrs May could very well find that finishing Brexit may be a lot harder than starting it. It will …
… – European creditors (these austerity measures are the only ones which will help Greece) on the other hand has been a remarkable exercise in the collective distribution of ignorance and confusion – in other words, the distribution of policy-making groups’ ‘common sense’. Stepping, for a moment, outside of what we’ve been told to think I would like to invite you to consider the following. The privatization, liberalization and other structural reform measures which Greece’s previous governments … corporations’ profit margins). So how does one look beyond the morality play and come to a sensible solution to the Greek/European crisis? Fortunately, we have the wisdom of the European Central Bank (ECB), the Commission and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to guide the hapless Greeks through this mess. Their policies draw on dominant economic theories which support labour and capital flexibilisation, private sector growth and the gutting of ‘red tape’ legislation. Aside from reducing … Jordan, Mexico, Iraq, Afghanistan, Nigeria, Venezuela – I could go on) have at some point been subjected to similar structural reform policies advocated by, among others, the IMF and the World Bank (and in the case of Greece supported by the Eurogroup and the ECB). The results have been consistent and well-documented , rising inequality, a collapse in incomes, consumption and productivity as well as social dislocation and decline. So why are the ‘leeches of austerity’ so popular with the …
Last Friday the University celebrated its 43rd birthday. This was a wonderful and festive event for both the University and the Faculty. Four students received a prize for their thesis and Prof. Monica Claes presented Michael Ignatieff with a honorary doctorate.
The entire Faculty community helped to find names for our tutorial rooms. Naming them ensures we are better able to find them. It also makes clear it is the Law Faculty making use of our building.
… influx of people from the eastern borders of the EU, and witnessing the temporary exit of Germany from the Schengen agreement last weekend, the Maastricht University Faculty of Law has announced the Law Refugee Week. So let us take this as a starting point to think what us students and staff members of this faculty could do to help the 33,000 asylum seekers who have arrived in the Netherlands since 2014 and the many more that are expected to arrive in the months to come. The easiest … which are currently being run in Maastricht. But beyond that, I believe that we can use the specific knowledge and skills that our legal studies equip us with to help the refugees. Drawing inspiration from similar initiatives at several German law faculties, I aim to kickstart with your support a Refugee Law Clinic in Maastricht (with the potential to introduce this project at other law faculties in the Netherlands). While presenting the blueprint of this project, I’ve often heard from enthusiastic first years ’I really would like to help, but I am just a first year student’. Similarly, more advanced bachelor and master students have …
… debates are taking place over the importance of science communication , the use of meta-studies, and efforts to make data and research more transparent . In the political and administrative community there have been reforms to ensure expert groups are more balanced, procedures to procure expertise are made more transparent, and the design of public consultations seek to avoid bias. Institutional reforms must be followed with more drastic revisions to the role of (social) media in the … for introducing tighter regulations on the combatting of misinformation, foreign interference and hate speech on social media . A radical approach A third scenario pleads for a more radical conceptualisation of expertise in policymaking. The starting point of these claims is the strong relationship between expertise and power. Contestation of expertise is therefore viewed as a part of the political struggle for power and is an integral part of a functioning democracy . The debate on the …
“What kind of skills do we want our graduates to have?” was the main topic of discussion during a recent staff meeting, which got me thinking.
… a ‘cornerstone of EU security policy’. Open research questions include the need for transparency, the protection of fundamental rights, as well as the effectiveness of control by the Commission over the various schemes. The second day of the workshop started with a presentation by Silvia Díez Sastre and Fernando Pastor Merchante on the strategic management of funds in Spain – in particular, the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) (technically falling under direct management). The presentation … of EU law by national administrations and courts is still underexplored, despite the paradigm of ‘indirect administration’ being prevalent in several EU policies and certainly in that of EU funds. Also here, however, ‘networked research’ with a group of scholars is crucial if one is to truly understand the intricacies of the national application of EU law. The workshop thus aimed to take a first step in the creation of this community and any scholar interested in these themes, both from a …