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29
jun

De Dagdenkers: “Vanavond is de Europese Unie uiteengevallen”

Koos Van Houdt / 8 jaar
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7 min read

Koos van Houdt Het is een rare gedachte. Vanavond is de Europese Unie uiteen gevallen. Bij Hazeldonk, Vaals, Bergh-Autoweg, Oldenzaal en Bad Nieuweschans zijn plotseling de vrouwen en mannen in het uniform van de douane weer verschenen. Het opnieuw opbouwen van de slagbomen en lokethuisjes kost nog even wat meer tijd. Maar lege containers genoeg […]

09
jun

Hoe denkt Nederland echt over de EU?

Koos Van Houdt / 8 jaar
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11 min read

Koos van Houdt There is a yawning gap between politicians in The Hague and ordinary Dutch people about European policy The best characterization of this: “benevolent indifference” You would think that farmers would like to see part of their income automatically deposited from the European treasury into their checking account every year. But not all […]

06
jun

Meyer Werft links Emsland and the Northern Netherlands

Koos Van Houdt / 8 jaar
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8 min read

Koos van Houdt In The Hague, the European Union is often far away. Even Germany is not next door. It regularly happens that administrators or civil servants in The Hague fall into ‘Randstad thinking’. Their argument is then enlivened with maps, where a kind of virgin area is left white east of the Dutch border. […]

26
apr

Europese begroting: Wat een half kopje koffie per dag en 1000 miljard euro met elkaar hebben te maken

Koos Van Houdt / 8 jaar
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9 min read

Koos likes (a play in four acts about the European treasury) • How much is in the jar and is that a lot? The premiere will take place on May 2, 2018. But there have already been all kinds of try-outs. On that day, the European Commission will start negotiations on multiannual figures for the […]

29
mrt

Eigenzinnige Britten roeren zich: Copernicus, Galileo en Erasmus slachtoffer van Brexit

Koos Van Houdt / 8 jaar
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6 min read

Koos van Houdt In the British newspaper The Times of this Thursday morning, 28 March, we can read an indignant report about the possible closure of access for the British to the European Union’s Copernicus space project. The programme costs 4 billion euros and the British have been taking part in it so far. It […]

05
mrt

NL Premier Rutte: “Europese commissie is geen regering”

Koos Van Houdt / 8 jaar
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3 min read

Koos van Houdt Between 2002 and 2004, Aart Jan de Geus and Mark Rutte were ministers and state secretaries at the Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment. De Geus has been chairman of the board of the Bertelsmann Stiftung in Berlin since 2012. Last Friday we saw the ‘old boys network’ in action. Is there […]

05
mrt

Europese wetgeving inzake asiel schiet maar niet op

Koos Van Houdt / 8 jaar
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4 min read

Koos van Houdt If there is a place where ’the devil is in the details’, it is in the negotiations on a common European asylum and migration policy. There have been and are fine words about it. But if Greece and Italy are faced with a disproportionate burden, the other Member States will simply look […]

24
jan

Heibel in Europees Parlement: Poolse Europarlementariër Czarnecki onder vuur

Koos Van Houdt / 8 jaar
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6 min read

Koos van Houdt They play it cautiously, the group chairmen in the European Parliament. Relations with Member State Poland are difficult enough as it is. But a statement by one Polish MEP Ryszard Czarnecki about his colleague Roza Thun seems to get him into political trouble. Czarnecki called Thun a ‘szmalcownik’. That is an unusual […]

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Hoe denkt Nederland echt over de EU?

Meyer Werft links Emsland and the Northern Netherlands

Europese begroting: Wat een half kopje koffie per dag en 1000 miljard euro met elkaar hebben te maken

Eigenzinnige Britten roeren zich: Copernicus, Galileo en Erasmus slachtoffer van Brexit

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Europese wetgeving inzake asiel schiet maar niet op

Heibel in Europees Parlement: Poolse Europarlementariër Czarnecki onder vuur

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