Dr Abazi presents on access to information at the European Parliament public hearing on transparency organised by the Committee on Petitions
On 21 June, Dr Abazi presented on the issue of balancing transparency and confidentiality at the public hearing on transparency and free access to information and documents held by the Committee on Petitions of the European Parliament. The hearing included the participation of academics, representatives from civil society and from the European institutions. The full recording of event is available online

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Inaugural lecture Jan Willem van Prooijen
What drives people to embrace radical conspiracy theories, sometimes with far-reaching consequences for society? During his inaugural lecture on Friday 27 June, Prof. Dr. Jan Willem van Prooijen (radicalisation, extremism, and conspiracy thinking) will address this urgent question.
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Update 25 June
Last night a UM building at the Bouillonstraat was daubed with paint and slogans. A sad expression of vandalism. UM has filed a report.
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A night in Tehran: rose water, saffron and pistachio
Niloofar Tahmasebi Birgani, assistant professor at the MERLN research institute, was born in southern Iran. It was only when she moved to the Netherlands in 2010 for her PhD research that she began cooking for herself. Instead of recipes, she uses intuition and memory to bring her mother’s and...