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… parliament. This position paper sheds light on UM’s current scientific and societal significance and points the way to avoid damaging it, therefore giving ample scope to its mission: for the Netherlands in Europe. In the past five years, the number of foreign students in the Netherlands’ higher education has doubled. Of the current 340,346 students at Dutch universities, almost 80,000 come from abroad, 14.2% more than in the previous academic year. This increase brings challenges for some universities. UM understands that these universities are asking for steering mechanisms that will allow them to manage the influx of foreign students. At the same time, UM does not understand if new laws and regulations are chosen that will unnecessarily harm universities to which these challenges do not apply. 1. Source: message dated 7 February 2022 on … its profile as ‘the European university of the Netherlands’. It does so as a living lab and centre of expertise, with an international learning experience and environment, the International Classroom (ICR), international networks and partnerships, exchange programmes, focus on cross-border mobility and an excellent quality assurance system. From this strategy, UM is in good faith developing as a university with a distinctly international and European profile. It is doing so partly in line with …