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… irregular migrants from reaching Spanish territory. After spending hours perched on the top of one of the fences, they finally climbed down and where immediately apprehended by Spanish police and summarily returned to Moroccan authorities with a group of 75-80 persons. Thus, the question addressed by the ECtHR was whether such practice constituted an expulsion and if so, whether the expulsion was collective as prohibited by article 4 of Protocol 4 to the ECHR. The Court found the return to …
… on her proverbial sword: upon failure of the DWA, she could then seek a long extension – fully knowing that substantial parts of the Conservative Party will find it unpalatable – as the only workable option, thus enabling the next Prime Minister to start with a clean slate and without the “taint” of an Article 50 extension. As of this morning, given that Brexit is turning into the greatest policy disaster in recent memory, possibly even surpassing the Suez Crisis, there are calls (albeit still in … week. The truth remains that the substance of the DWA remains unchanged. Besides, the supporters of both No Deal, a softer Brexit or a second national referendum have little incentive to vote for the DWA. No Dealers, led by the European Research Group faction within the Conservative Party, can just vote down the deal and run out the clock by 12 April. Soft Brexiters and supporters of a second referendum have now been thrown a parliamentary lifeline by the European Council and have much more time to explore alternative options. At the same time, the UK Parliament also needs to decide whether it wishes to participate in the European Parliament elections – and thus gain much more time …
… reflex also plays a role in the strong anti-European sentiment we’re seeing today.” Would you call the treaty a success? De Witte : “I think many things would be done differently if we had the chance again. The core of the treaty, the economic and monetary union, remains controversial. I think it was a good idea, but in practice certain aspects didn’t pan out well. European citizenship was one innovation of the treaty. Another was the fact that the European parliament not only plays an advisory … been very successful. But you could have some structural criticisms of the treaty; for example, was all that text really necessary? Why didn’t they just make one very general article – ‘we’ll establish a European Central Bank to govern the EU’s monetary policy’ – like you see in the Dutch constitution? A number of the rules later turned out to be impediments to action during the economic and financial crisis.” Back then the European Community had 12 member states, as opposed to 28 now. Was it a … Malta, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania] marked the end of a certain kind of Europe. The EU became much larger and more diverse. You could regret that because progress is faster with a smaller, more homogeneous group, but what was the alternative?” De Witte : “Mitterand had an alternative at the time: a European confederation. He felt you had to do something with the countries that emerged from the Soviet bloc. In a European confederation they’d be part of …
… Rights and Democratisation . The fantastic venue of this programme is only one of its assets. One other great asset is that our colleague Ria Wolleswinkel chairs the executive committee of the Master’s programme. Representatives of the participating faculties handed over the diplomas in the Scuola Grande di San Rocco. Scuola Grande di San Rocco There are worse places – surrounded by paintings of Tintoretto – to receive a diploma. At night over dinner I was sitting next to a Czech political …
… of Besmir Fidahic. I hope to see you all at the Faculty Christmas gathering on Wednesday – with a surprise – and at the inaugural lecture of our colleague Marjon Weerepas this Friday. I wish everyone very happy and well-deserved holidays and a good start of 2019. More blogs on Law Blogs Maastricht Labels: public law J.M. Smits Meer artikelen van J.M. Smits Andere blogs: General Alumni Arts and Social Sciences Business and Economics Corona Heath, Medicine and Life Sciences Law Maastricht …
Last week we welcomed a large number of first year students at our Faculty. At the beginning of this new academic year, we were also very happy to host our alumni at the annual alumni day.
… own country (Nigeria) and was the first legal luminary of exceptional quality in the African world: Judge Taslim Olawale Elias. Elias was born in 1914 in Lagos, Nigeria, at the time that Nigeria was a British colony. His long and distinguished career started with a job at the Government Audit Department in Lagos and thereafter at the Chief Accountant’s Office of Nigeria Railways. While working with Nigerian Railways Elias became an external student of London University and passed the intermediate examinations for the B.A. and LL.B. degrees. It was only in 1944 that he started his academic studies at London University and soon obtained a B.A. degree followed by a LL.B. degree in 1947. Two years later he received as the first African student ever a PhD degree in law from the University of London. This became the basis … of his country after Nigeria became independent in 1960, was Dean of the Faculty of Law of the University of Lagos, and was appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria in 1972. This position he held until 1975 when he was ousted by a military regime that took power that year. But only a few months later he was elected by the General Assembly and the Security Council as a judge in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) that he served until his death in 1991; from 1982-1985 he was the …
… platforms’ responsibility to protect its users in situations similar to Molly’s . His advocacy also resulted in the United Kingdom’s government applying pressure to various social media companies to remove harmful content. In this regard, health secretary Matt Hanock indicated that a failure on behalf of the platforms to do so could mean a stricter regulation of platforms in the United Kingdom. The response of Instagram to the public outcry concerning this topic was to remove a large variety of … harmful or dangerous acts involving minors May inflict emotional distress on minors Could be perceived as misleading family content Cyberbullying and harassment involving minors Additionally, YouTube can categorize its content to a certain age group, as such, excluding minors from viewing content that might be considered harmful for them – while still allowing older viewers to view it. To enact such viewing, an individual would have to sign in to their Youtube account as to prove they are 18 … in the wake of a viral TikTok challenge . For these reasons, TikTok pays enormous respect to the protection of its underage users. But let us take a step back and look more generally at the content restrictions aimed at protecting minors on those websites. Naturally, one of the most pressing issues and the specific limitation is that no content is allowed that, in any way, sexually exploits or endangers children. If such content is detected on any of these websites and is deemed potentially …
… is a PhD Candidate at Expertise Centre ITEM ( Institute for Transnational and Euregional cross border cooperation and Mobility / ITEM ) under guidance of prof. dr. Melissa Siegel and Dr. Mariska van der Giessen and is part of the Migration Research Group at the Maastricht Graduate School of Governance/ UNU-MERIT specialising in research on highly-skilled migration. Read more about her research at Expertise Centre ITEM: • Understanding the decision of international migrants to stay or leave the …