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… for family planning, information and education. The executive order by President Trump is clearly at odds with the SDG commitment of the US. Interestingly, the Trump measure has led to a direct and strong reaction by the Netherlands government. Secretary Ploumen (International Trade and Development Cooperation) has clearly rejected Trump’s decision. She immediately took action to counter the effects of the US measure. She started an 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 … and safe abortions are guaranteed. It is to be hoped that the EU and its member states are able to speak with one voice and support the Netherlands initiative. Image : Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Lilianne Ploumen visits Jordan. Adapt humanitarian aid to new reality. Published on Law Blogs Maastricht Labels: human rights International and European law A.P.M. Coomans Prof Fons Coomans holds the UNESCO Chair in Human Rights and Peace at the Department of International and European Law …
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… makers to make decisions that are beneficial, also economically, due to their accuracy and consistency. This is true with respect to big data analytics based on personal data used for university admissions, job recruitment, customer profiling, targeted marketing, and health services. By way of an analysis of vast data sets in any of the aforementioned fields, common threads can be used to predict whether or not Candidate X is fit for a position, or if Individual Y will develop heart disease …
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… show why law must have a central place in the big research themes of today. Last week I visited a ‘work conference’ on legal research in the Netherlands. This meeting was organised by the Council of Deans, the platform of deans of the ten Dutch law faculties. We spent an afternoon talking about the state of legal research in the presence of vice-deans for research, the president of the VSNU and the chair of the new NWO domain Social Sciences and Humanities (that Law belongs to). There was enough … I therefore made a plea at the meeting that legal academics better show themselves in these societal debates. Of course in the very first place through top research, but also through op-eds, blogs (the Dutch economists do this very well with their website me judice ), possibly with a sector plan, and certainly with a powerful lobby with funding organisations. Legal science itself cannot speak. This is why its spokespeople – all of us – must show how important our discipline is. Read more …
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How do we guarantee access to COVID-19 vaccines and therapies, and secure health-related human rights for all? We’ve heard a string of promises in the race for new vaccines and therapies.
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“Hopefully COVID-19 will be gone at some point, but tracking technologies may stay for longer and permanently hamper the rights and freedoms of individuals”.
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… of actually increasing inequality through its market-oriented policies. Firstly, Balász Szechy discussed the recent evolution of Cohesion Policy, which is deployed through the EU’s structural funds, and its challenges ahead of the next budgetary period. Besides fostering economic and social convergence, the structural funds are currently used towards promoting a competitive economy and enhancing the Single Market. However, this “sea of objectives” has attracted criticism, opening a period … unemployment. McDougall defended that academic scholarship has not sufficiently explored the array of legal arguments that could be posed against Euro-crisis austerity measures. His presentation posited that the construction of the European and Monetary Union, and Member States’ relinquishing of competences on monetary policies, conferred on the EU an obligation to use all tools at its disposal to secure full employment and refrain from decisions that could harm it. Lastly, Marco Bevilacqua explored the EU economic governance framework in the light of the latest …
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This blog post is part of a series reflecting on the panel discussions held during the conference "Between narratives and reality: The EU at the gates of a new mandate", which took place at the Faculty of Law of Maastricht University o
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… 2020 to address various structural and behavioural conducts of the so called ‘gatekeepers’, based on a framework entailing certain qualitative/quantitative thresholds, novel remedies and investigatory tools. DMA Proposal has gone through the Parliamentary review ending up with a number of amendments in December 2021 and now is through trialogue between the EU Council, Parliament and Commission. In the UK, the regulatory process has been initiated by the Competition and Market Authority (CMA)’s …
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… the incentives that the law provides them with in order to motivate consumers to bring cases against companies violating contract and consumer law, i.e., that consumer receives 50% of the fine imposed on a company if he wins the case. Prof. Franziska Weber from Erasmus School of Law, Rotterdam presented an experimental project she has been working on together with Tim Friehe and Leonie Gerhards. In this project, Prof. Weber addresses a very topical yet rather neglected issue that arises when people share their personal data, i.e., when sharing their data, people reveal information not only about themselves but also about third parties (e.g., their friends or family). In other words, a decision that may seem like a decision about our own privacy usually also affects the privacy of others. Prof. Weber wanted to learn whether people care about that, i.e., whether the knowledge that the decision affects the privacy of third parties decreases people’s willingness to share their data. The experimental results revealed that if sharing personal data …
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… simple for the almost 39,000 asylum-seeking men, women, and children, among them thousands of unaccompanied children, residing on the Greek Aegean islands. The Greek Council for Refugees and Oxfam, among others, have provided insights into the unsanitary conditions facing asylum seekers on the islands’ ‘hotspots’, where most are accommodated. There is one shower for every 500 people, and one toilet for every 160. To collect their meals, they must queue in line for hours, with hundreds of other … island ‘hotspots’. The first such transfers have taken place, with 12 children relocated to Luxembourg and 47 to Germany. Unlike the previous relocation mechanism that was operational from 2015 to 2017, this is a smaller-scale operation based on voluntary pledges. Other measures include in-kind assistance through the EU Civil Protection Mechanism and additional EU funding of a total of €700 million for the construction of five multi-purpose reception and identification centres on the Greek …