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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryLaw’s mediations: the shifting definitions of traffickingAs trafficking becomes increasingly conflated with slavery and forced labor, there is less and less agreement...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The right to many tongues and multilingual citiesThis is multilingualism, not in the sense of everyone speaking the same multiple languages, but the multilingualism...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?States heed the warning: Srebrenica’s survivors make international legal historyA court has found the Netherlands partially responsible for the deaths of residents of the UN “safe area” in...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Mass surveillance: the Dutch state of denialWith tacit support from the European Commission, the Dutch government has carefully evaded addressing concerns over...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Surveillance: justice, freedom and security in the EUA discussion of European surveillance programmes cannot be reduced to the question of a balance between data...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Netherlands' surveillance: justice, freedom and security in the EU
The Dutch state is developing a considerable surveillance and intelligence sharing apparatus. For what purpose?
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Selective Dutch mourning ritualsWhy would the Netherlands, champion of freedom of speech and tolerance, go out of its way to block a handful of...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The Goebbels effectLet us stand still and recognize what has happened in the Dutch repudiation of Geert Wilders and embrace of...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The populist appeal – bottom-up perspectives: the Netherlands, a view from the south
These extracts draw on citizen consultation in Maastricht, the capital city of Limburg, a southern region of the...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The populist appeal – bottom-up perspectives: The ‘Participation Society’ of the Netherlands
These remarks, extracted from a meeting with citizens in Leidsche Rijn, confirm findings that only 20% of Dutch...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Populist snapshots: this week’s exchange in the European Parliament
An excerpt from the debate on discriminatory internet sites and government reactions (March 13, 2012, Strasbourg),...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?A new (order) Ukraine? Assessing the relevance of Ukraine’s far right in an EU perspectiveNow that the EU is ready to embrace the new Ukrainian government, investing at least one billion euros in the...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?A march on Brussels? Never say never!Conservative and nationalist blocks have successfully politicized Euro-elections. The other parties must clearly...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The Dutch media monopoly kills journalism in the Netherlands: internet doesn’t helpPolitics has marginalized the people with the crucial support of the media.
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Published in: Participation NowInspired by the publicExperimenting with public participation at the Kröller-Müller Museum, 2010-2014.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Transcending tolerance? The evolution of Dutch DNAVisitors to the Amsterdam Museum are now met with the immodest claim that tolerance is part and parcel of the...
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Published in: HomeThe contested spaces of the politics of universalismA recent Dutch asylum case offers an opportunity to explore how universalism is being renegotiated within the frames...
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Published in: HomeEurope’s guns, debt and corruption
This second of two essays on military spending and the EU crisis, explores the role of the European arms trade,...
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Published in: HomeMainstreaming the brown spectre haunting EuropeFrom Geert Wilders in the Netherlands to Marine Le Pen in France, far right politicians using new strategies are...
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Published in: HomeA countervailing power: an interview with Jan Pronk
We have to establish a world public power representative of all countries and all people within all countries. One...
