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  • Jean Monnet

    Jean Monnet (1888-1979) is, in some ways, an unlikely person to be honoured by having a university hall called after him. Indeed, Monnet left school at the age of sixteen, never obtained a university degree, and indeed never started university studies. He grew up in the city of Cognac as the son of...

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  • Crossing borders

    At the start of this academic year, on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, I was asked to participate in a debate here in Maastricht on “borders”: the frontiers that surround us here in the southernmost part of the country to the east, west and south. 

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  • Plagiarism and "Citing correctly"

    The KNAW just released the advisory letter on "Correct Citation" after all the commotion surrounding the case of Peter Nijkamp... This blog is only available in Dutch.

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