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On June 23 the first PhD Meeting on Pensions took place, a joint initiative of the Institute of Transnational and Euregional cross border cooperation and Mobility / ITEM and the Competence Centre for Pension Research / CCP from Tilburg University. The main purpose of this meeting was to bring together PhD-researchers and other researchers in the field of pension and related fields of research

Today, on Thursday 23 June 2016, the first PhD meeting on pensions will take place. This PhD meeting is an initiative of the Institute of Transnational and Euregional cross border cooperation and Mobility / ITEM of Maastricht University and Tilburg University.

Who may compete for a country at the Olympics?

While the qualification rounds for the Rio Olympics received huge media attention, the underlying question regarding which country an athlete may compete for only makes headlines when prominent athletes change their country of representation.

Prof. dr. mr. Kid Schwarz in Magna Charta - Leading men in ondernemingsrecht

In an article by RTL Z prof. mr. dr. Raymond Luja, of Maastricht University’s Faculty of Law, has contributed about the topic of tax law. 

The European Commission approved one of the final Deliverables of the FP7 project EFFACE (EU Action to Fight Environmental Crime).

A quartet of Finance in Motion staff members have introduced the basics of impact investing to students at a Dutch university, and they responded with pitches for a wide range of funds.

Mark Levels (ROA and GSBE) won a research grant in the highly competitive Open Research Area grant scheme, organized by NWO, ANR, JSPS, DFG and ESRC, to conduct a large cross-national research program on youth Not in Employment, Education and Training (NEETs).

On 9 March MCEL member, Professor Lisa Waddington, gave a keynote lecture at the conference Disability Policies and the impact of UNCRPD in the Nordic Region,  organised by the Nordic centre for Welfare and Social Issues  in Helsinki. 

On Friday 4 March, Professor Jaap Spier was awarded with the distinction of Knight in the Order of the Dutch Lion by Mayor Penn-te Strake for his role in the development of liability law at national, supranational and international level.