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Ecuador Earthquake: What lawyers can do

25 April 2016
On Saturday 16 of April an earthquake struck Ecuador. At 7.8 on the Richter scale, it levelled various towns of the province of Manabí, in particular Pedernales, Manta and Portoviejo. At current estimates, it has killed more than 500 persons. Many of them died a slow death, after days of being...
by:
- G.M. Arosemena Solorzano
in Law
It has to be different?!

14 September 2015
On 8 September 2015 State Secretary for Justice and Security Klaas Dijkhoff announced that from now on only refugees who have applied for asylum in a safe place outside the EU would be accepted in the Netherlands. The government wants to put an end to asylum-seekers placing their fate in the hands...
by:
- E.C.H.J. van der Linden
in Law
The ball is back in the FCC´s ´court` [The CJEU´s OMT-decision of 16 June 2015]

23 June 2015

While Europe holds its breath and follows the negotiations between Greece and its partners on the financial assistance, another ´piece in the puzzle` of the European attempts to contain the sovereign debt crisis has prominently featured in the press recently. The Court of Justice (CJEU) delivered...