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  • Much has been written about the Brexit referendum on 23 June 2016 and the 52-48 result in favour of termination of the UK's membership of the EU... This blog is only available in Dutch.

  • Het Europees Semester

    The European semester

    On 15 September, the Montesquieu Institute published her 6th policy paper, this time on the European semester... This blog is only available in Dutch.

  • The EU´s budget is complicated. It is complex. And it is critically scrutinised by Member States. It has been the source of political debate and disagreement in the past decades and it still is today. Most recently, the issue was high on the agenda. In late 2014, the European Commission claimed supp...