Personeel Fedasil uit scherpe kritiek op beleid minister Van Bossuyt in open brief: "Dagelijkse schendingen van rechtsstaat" | VRT NWS Nieuws Honderden personeelsleden van Fedasil hebben felle kritiek op het beleid van minister van Asiel en Migratie Anneleen Van Bossuyt (N-VA). Dat blijkt uit een open brief die in De Standaard en Le Soir is...

Personeel Fedasil uit scherpe kritiek op beleid minister Van Bossuyt in open brief: "Dagelijkse schendingen van rechtsstaat"

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For the next couple of weeks, I’ll be teaching EU trade law at the Université libre de Bruxelles. Together with Dr Chrissopighi Braila from the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, I’ll be guiding students through the fascinating intersection of law and economics in EU trade policy.

The Supreme Court Ruling against legality of over half of tariffs levied last year likely invalidates any “deals” cut by other counties to lower the tariffs.

Posted without comment. The USA Supreme Court tariff decision. Weekend reading sorted. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

There is no exception to the major questions doctrine for emergency statutes. Nor does the fact that tariffs implicate foreign affairs render the doctrine inapplicable. The Framers gave “Congress alone” the power to impose tariffs during peacetime. Merritt v. Welsh, 104 U. S. 694, 700. And the foreign affairs implications of tariffs do not make it any more likely that Congress would relinquish its tariff power through vague language, or without careful limits.

(a) IEEPA authorizes the President to “investigate, block during the pendency of an investigation, regulate, direct and compel, nullify, void, prevent or prohibit . . . importation or exportation.” §1702(a)(1)(B). Absent from this lengthy list of specific powers is any mention of tariffs or duties. Had Congress intended to convey the distinct and extraordinary power to impose tariffs, it would have done so expressly, as it consistently has in other tariff statutes. The power to “regulate . . . importation” does not fill that void. The term “regulate,” as ordinarily used, means to “fix, establish, or control; to adjust by rule, method, or established mode; to direct by rule or restriction; to subject to governing principles or laws.” Black’s Law Dictionary 1156. The facial breadth of this definition places in stark relief what ”regulate” is not usually thought to include: taxation. Many statutes grant the Executive the power to “regulate.” Yet the Government cannot identify any statute in which the power to regulate includes the power to tax. The Court is therefore skeptical that in IEEPA—and IEEPA alone—Congress hid a delegation of its birth-right power to tax within the quotidian power to “regulate.” While taxes may accomplish regulatory ends, it does not follow that the power to regulate includes the power to tax as a means of regulation. Indeed, when Congress addresses both the power to regulate and the power to tax, it does so separately and expressly. That it did not do so here is strong evidence that “regulate” in IEEPA does not include taxation.

Supreme Court absolutely bodies Trump on IEEPA.

Just complete groin kicking.

They could have said that IEEPA lets him impose tariffs in an emergency but that this didn't qualify as one of those, or he failed to define one.

It didn't.

It ruled IEEPA doesn't let him impose tariffs at all.

Two Canadian officials involved in the U.S. trade discussions, who spoke anonymously to frankly convey their impressions of the state of the talks, said expectations in Ottawa for a full renewal of the U.S.M.C.A. were very low. Mr. Carney’s team, they said, even questions whether it could trust any fresh trade agreements with Mr. Trump. The Canadian government, they said, is preparing for long, bumpy and dramatic talks with a hostile U.S. administration, and even for a breakup of the U.S.M.C.A. Mr. Trump repeatedly said last year that he wanted Canada to become part of the United States — calling it the 51st state — and that he was prepared to use “economic force” to get the country to heed his wishes. Mr. Carney was elected last spring on a pledge to stand up to Mr. Trump. He said at the time that the president wanted to “break us so that America can own us.” Despite some positive interactions between Mr. Trump and Mr. Carney, Canadian officials said they believed that Mr. Trump wanted to weaken Canada economically to force it to give up some protectionist policies it preserved in previous trade talks.

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Moeten we binnenkort wegenvignet kopen om Belgische wegen te gebruiken of steken de Nederlanders er weer een stokje voor? | VRT NWS: nieuws De Vlaamse en Waalse regering onderhandelen volop over de invoering van een wegenvignet volgend jaar. Op die manier betalen alle automobilisten - ook de buitenlandse - mee voor het onderhoud van onze ...

‘In het parlement gaf Weyts toe dat de ambitie om de belastingdruk niet te verhogen "niet eenvoudig is en noopt ons tot creativiteit en voorzichtigheid".’

Anders gesteld: de VL regering zoekt naar opties om de Europese vrij verkeersregels te omzeilen.

Loyaal is anders.

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Spain to regularise 500,000 undocumented migrants Spain's left-wing government approved Tuesday a plan to regularise around 500,000 undocumented migrants by decree, the country's latest break with harsher policies elsewhere in Europe.

Very courageous move by the Spanish government. A recognition of the contribution migrants make to the Spanish economy and to Spanish society and, as the catholic church put it: an act of social justice.

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Effective judicial protection in the CFSP after KS and KD - Thomas Verellen, 2026 This paper critically examines the evolving landscape of effective judicial protection within the European Union’s Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) fol...

📢Publication alert 📢 : "Effective judicial protection in the CFSP after KS and KD", published open access in the Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law.

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Read Mark Carney's full speech on middle powers navigating a rapidly changing world | CBC News Read the full text of Prime Minister Mark Carney's speech about a shakeup of the global order and role of middle powers at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

“On plurilateral trade, we're championing efforts to build a bridge between the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the European Union, which would create a new trading block of 1.5 billion people.”

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Beyond CETA: The Limits of Bilateralism and the Case for Canada–EU Multilateral Leadership — Thomas Verellen I will be traveling to Canada’s Pacific coast in a couple of months to attend the bi-annual conference of the Canadian EU studies association. Among other things, I will participate in a panel on EU-C...

While everybody is busy proclaiming the end of the transatlantic alliance, I thought it was a good moment to write about the potential of closer ties with the EU's other transatlantic partner, Canada.🍁

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EU-US tariff deal faces delay as Trump's Greenland threats anger lawmakers - Borderlex - European trade policy Leading lawmakers in the European Parliament's trade committee are considering postponing a vote on legislation to eliminate tariffs on US industrial goods and establish import quotas for certain agricultural and seafood products.

MEPs in trade committee consider postponing a vote to eliminate tariffs on US industrial goods import & quotas for US ag products

#Greenland #EUUS

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E.U. and South America to Form Free-Trade Zone With 700 Million People

Lots of talk about the end of international law, the death of multilateralism, deglobalization, etc, but here we have Europe and South America creating a huge free trade zone.

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The US abducts a head of state — a clear breach of international law. But this isn’t its “death.” States violate the rules, yet far more often they follow them. A legal order should be judged not by headline violations but by everyday compliance.

I think this feels particularly shocking because no matter how much you stretch the law this has absolutely no basis of legality whatsoever. No terrorists, no "threat" requiring anticipatory self defence. Nothing.

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PVV haalt D66 in als grootste partij • Verschil nu 2341 stemmen In dit liveblog lees je het laatste politieke nieuws over de uitslag van de Tweede Kamerverkiezingen.

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Dat klinkt allemaal erg spannend (en Amerikaans), maar NL is een parlementaire democratie. De partijen die een meerderheid van 75+1 vormen in de Tweede Kamer zijn de winnaars.

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Grote dag voor Verellen Law: Vanaf deze week huur ik een ruimte in Antwerpen—op een steenworp van het Vlinderpaleis—om cliënten te ontvangen in een comfortabele en gastvrije omgeving.

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“placating the far right by adopting far-right policies does not neutralise extremism: it legitimises it and hollows out the union from within. Instead, Europe must actively champion pluralism, the rule of law, open societies and climate action as sources of strength.”

Ik ben geen vriend van De Wever, maar t.a.v. het VB was de strategie op dat punt de juiste.

Het kan misschien als inspiratiebron dienen voor Nederlandse partijen--misschien in het bijzonder het VVD, die net de omgekeerde strategie heeft gevolgd.

Tijdens de campagne voor de Belgische verkiezingen van vorig jaar heeft de N-VA duidelijk gesteld niet met het Vlaams Belang in zee te zullen gaan.

De peilingen hadden een grote zegen voor VB voorspeld; bleek dat N-VA toch als winnaar uit de bus kwam.

Suggestie van een zuiderbuur aan alle democratische partijen in Nederland: laat je niet meer uit je tent lokken door de groteske uitspraken, en zeg duidelijk aan de kiezers: met die partij regeren we *nooit* meer.

Hij zou ook meer dan 2u aan het spreekstoel van de Tweede Kamer hebben gestaan waar hij zou hebben voorgesteld de godsdienstvrijheid af te schaffen om de moslims te treffen?

Onbegrijpelijk dat de man in al z'n waanzin blijkbaar nog steeds serieus genomen wordt door politiek Nederland.

Ben nu ongeveer 30m naar @betrouwbarebronnen.bsky.social aan het luisteren, over de algemene politieke beschouwingen.

Het gaat tot nu toe enkel over Wilders, die blijkbaar weer allerlei uitspraken gedaan heeft die je enkel als waanzinnig kan kwalificeren.

Could you explain who the “outside world” is in your post, and how you think this looks to them? I’m puzzled as the article reads to me like a piece with a humanitarian angle. Is that somehow wrong?

Ieder kind verdient kwaliteitsvol onderwijs, ook in Brussel. Vlaanderen moet beter kunnen. Wat doet de minister om leerkrachten aan te trekken en, allerbelangrijkst, te houden?

Onbegrijpelijk dat scholen zoals Balder niet meer ondersteuning krijgen. Iedereen weet dat het lerarentekort dramatisch is. De leerkrachten doen al wat ze kunnen, maar wat doet de Vlaamse overheid, behalve inspecteurs sturen en dreigen met sluiting?