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Introduction On 30 April 2025, a rapporteur of the Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI) of the European Parliament published a Draft Report containing recommendations on the introduction of a new 28th regime: the ‘European Start-Up and Scale-Up’ company (ESSU). The Draft Report is a first step in the realisation of the Competitiveness Compass, which aims…

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Introduction Due to the high influx of migrants to the European Union (EU), migration is a European challenge that requires a European solution. The EU legislator’s aim is to realize a comprehensive approach that aims at strengthening and integrating key EU policies on migration, asylum, border management and integration. With firm but fair rules, these…

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  Huub Verbaten, Research Fellow at the Clingendael Institute Photo credit: Markus Bernet, via Wikimedia commons On the evening of July 3, 2025, as Dutch parliamentarians prepared to vote on what could become some of Europe’s most restrictive asylum laws, NSC MP Diederik Boomsma posed a question that cut to the heart of a dangerous…

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Print this article The ruling of the Court of Justice in Kinsa: A first step towards the decriminalisation of the facilitation of unauthorised entry?  By Prof. Valsamis Mitsilegas, University of Liverpool, UK One of the most eagerly awaited judgments by the Court of Justice in recent months has involved the litigation in the case of…

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