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… Cross-border impact assessment 2018 The Institute for Transnational and Euregional cross border cooperation and Mobility / ITEM is the pivot of research, counselling, knowledge exchange and training activities with regard to cross-border mobility and cooperation. The Institute for Transnational and Euregional cross-border cooperation and Mobility, ITEM, is the pivot of academic research, consultancy, knowledge exchange and … 8 3.1 Exploration of the cross-border impact of an increase in the low VAT rate in the Netherlands 8 3.2 The Qualifying Foreign Taxpayer Obligation (“90% rule”): A Preliminary Ex-Post Impact Assessment ...................................................................................................................................... 45 3.3 Schemes relating to … Belgium and Germany border region. For example, the student team researching the Dutch pilot project on the legal cannabis cultivation looked at the Meuse Rhine Euregion as well as the Rhine-Meuse-North Euregion. The dossier on the qualifying foreign taxpayer obligation (90% rule) instead defined the border region as the Dutch NUTS3/COROP areas located directly along the Dutch- Belgian and Dutch-German borders. The dossier on the social security position of the non-standard worker in turn …

… constructs: they are part of different states, where people speak different languages, and (are imagined to) have different customs. But even within those cities, great diversity exists: there are newcomers and natives, visitors and inhabitants, foreign students and labor migrants. Then what are the differences and similarities between these cities, and how are these created, maintained, negotiated or changed? And what do language, culture, and (trans)national identities have to do with this? … of Maastricht, Liège, Tongeren and Aachen. 5. Opening the Closed Doors of Diplomacy? Parliamentary Involvement in EU External Relations Prof. Thomas Christiansen and Dr. Anna Herranz-Surrallés To what extent should parliaments be involved in foreign policy decisions such as international agreements, military intervention, the use of drones or the imposition of sanctions? The answer to this question is far from straightforward. Compared to domestic policies, foreign policy is very often … always implies a ‘translation’, or transformation, of that knowledge. Teaching students the ‘art’ of interpreting primary sources on travels from that perspective is one of the major aims of this project, next to gaining a better understanding of the exchange of knowledge in the past, and the exploitation of the wealth of the Maastricht Jesuit Library. 5 The Jesuits Library inside the Maastricht University houses several hundreds, if not thousands, of books on travels, missions and explorations in …