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• Report by the Commissioner for Human Rights, Thomas Hammarberg, on his visit to the Netherlands (21-25 September 2008)

  15 April 2009, by Hammarberg Thomas
  Commissioner Thomas Hammarberg and his delegation visited the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands from 21 to 25 September 2008. In the course of his visit the Commissioner held discussions with the authorities, parliamentarians, representatives of civil society and members of the judiciary, and he and his delegation visited several institutions.

• Europe: Germany, Britain, Netherlands Agree to Enhance Anti-Terror Cooperation

  16 March 2009, by Deutsche Welle
  The governments of Germany, Britain, and the Netherlands have pledged to increase cooperation on countering Islamic extremism.

• Terror threat in the Netherlands ’substantial’

  22 December 2008, by News Agencies
  According to Dutch government counter-terrorism chief Tjibbe Joustra, the threat of a terrorist attack in the Netherlands is higher than ever. At present, the threat level rests at its second highest level – «substantial.» Justra, however, said that he believes the level should be set to «substantial plus.» He dies not say what specific threats have lead to this occasion.

• Netherlands Re-Arrests Freed Terrorist Suspect

  25 June 2008, by News Agencies
  Dutch authorities re-arrested a Pakistani suspect that had been previously released in April, who will now be extradited to Spain. Dutch authorities released the man because there was insufficient evidence that he was involved in planning a terrorist attack; however, a Spanish magistrate issued an international arrest warrant against the man. The man is allegedly part of a jihad network planning to launch attacks in Spain, France, Portugal, Germany, and England.

• Integration and Immigration: The Vicissitudes of Dutch ‘inburgering’

  24 June 2008, by Besselink Leonard F. M.
  The Netherlands has set an example to a range of other EU Member States in devising measures to integrate immigrants not only as a goal in itself, but as part of a restrictive migration policy. This essay describes the vicissitudes of ‘integration programmes’ (inburgering) in the Netherlands. It focuses on law, and we reflect in particular on the legislation through which these programmes were to be enforced.

• Discrimination in the Name of Integration, Migrants’ Rights Under the Integration Abroad Act

  21 May 2008, by Human Rights Watch
  The Netherlands should abolish the overseas «integration test» that discriminatorily targets only migrants of certain nationalities trying to join their families, while citizens from other, «western» countries are exempt, Human Rights Watch said in a briefing paper released yesterday. People of Moroccan and Turkish origin – two of the three largest «non-western» migrant communities in the Netherlands – have been especially affected.

• Dutch raise terror threat alert over anti-Islam film

  3 April 2008, by News Agencies
  On Thursday, the Netherlands raised its national risk level of a terrorist attack to «substantial,» ahead of the launch of a film by right-wing politician Geert Wilders. In a report to the Dutch parliament, he Dutch counter-terrorism agency said that the assessment was also influenced by increased arrests and threats of individuals and groups suspected of associating with, planning, or carrying out terrorist attacks in Europe.

• Reports on racism in Andorra, Latvia, the Netherlands and Ukraine

  18 March 2008, by Commission européenne contre le racisme et l’intolérance du Conseil de l’Europe
  The Council of Europe’s independent human rights monitoring body specialised in combating racism, the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI), today released four new reports examining racism, xenophobia, antisemitism and intolerance in Andorra, Latvia, the Netherlands and Ukraine. ECRI recognises that positive developments have occurred in all four of these Council of Europe member countries. At the same time, however, the reports detail continuing grounds for concern for the Commission

• L’entraide répressive franco-néerlandaise : ou une réflexion sur les conditions optimales d’une coopération bilatérale ou multilatérale

  16 mars 2008, par Kreft David
  Pour mieux comprendre l’entraide répressive entre les Pays-Bas, la France et le Maroc, il est nécessaire de connaître le fonctionnement juridique propre à chacun, ainsi que les spécificités culturelles et religieuses de chacun. Deux thèmes peuvent être dégagés de l’ensemble des textes rassemblés dans cette thèse : l’étude des systèmes juridiques des trois pays et les rencontres avec les divers interlocuteurs (universitaires, juges, policiers, parlementaires, diplomates, journalistes, avocats).

• Migrants’ Experiences of Racism and Xenophobia in 12 EU Member States

  4 February 2008, by European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia
  This pilot study on migrants’ experiences of discrimination is based on country studies conducted between 2002 and 2005 in Belgium, Germany, Greece, Spain, France, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Austria, Portugal and UK. According to the study in all these countries migrants subjectively experience discriminatory practices to a significant extent.

• Netherlands: Trouble with Moroccan criminal youth

  12 November 2007, by Nu.nl

• Samir A. convicted again for terrorism

  12 November 2007, by Expatica
  A Dutch Muslim radical was sentenced to four years in jail by an Amsterdam appeals court on Monday for planning a terrorist attack in 2004.

• Treaty Between the Kingdom of Spain, the French Republic, the Italian Republic, the Kingdom of The Netherlands and the Portuguese Republic, establishing the European Gendarmerie Force

  22 October 2007, by Italian Republic, Kingdom of Spain, Kingdom of The Netherlands, Portuguese Republic, Republic of France
  The object of this Treaty is to establish a European Gendarmerie Force, which shall be operational, pre-organised, robust, and rapidly deployable, exclusively comprising elements of police forces with military status of the Parties, in order to perform all police tasks within the scope of crisis management operations.

• Cohesion policy 2007-2013: Commission approves first cross-border cooperation programmes

  25 September 2007, by European Commission
  The Commission has adopted a first batch of four cross-border programmes under the new cohesion policy 2007-2013. The programmes concern Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, Italy, the United Kingdom and Ireland. The Commission expects to validate about 50 programmes on EU internal cross-border cooperation over the coming months, involving all Member States.

• Agir contre le racisme et la discrimination

  13 août 2007, par Revue internationale des sciences sociales
  Que l’on choisisse de prendre des mesures d’action « affirmative », souvent appelée « discrimination positive », ou de mener d’autres formes de lutte, on se heurte tout d’abord au problème de la mesure : comment évaluer l’importance des discriminations, utiliser les statistiques à bon escient, en bref poser correctement la problématique ?

• Prüm Treaty will allow EU27 to exchange DNA data to fight crime

  19 June 2007, by European Parliament
  The application of the Prüm Treaty, signed on 27 May 2005 by seven EU countries, should facilitate the exchange of data from DNA and fingerprint databases to produce «a stepping up of cross-border cooperation, particularly in combating terrorism, cross-border crime and illegal migration», according to a report by Fausto CORREIA (PES, PT) and adopted by the European Parliament.

• Amélioration des échanges d’informations dans le cadre de la coopération transfrontière

  19 juin 2007, par Parlement européen
  Le Parlement a adopté un rapport portant sur le transfert automatisé de profils ADN, de fichiers d’empreintes digitales et d’immatriculations de véhicules dans le cadre de la discussion commune sur la coopération transfrontière en matière de lutte contre le terrorisme et la criminalité. L’avis du Parlement est en l’espèce consultatif, mais les députés souhaitent modifier la base juridique utilisée, afin que le Conseil ne puisse passer outre ses recommandations à la majorité qualifiée.

• Prüm: an effective weapon against terrorism and crime?

  21 May 2007, by House of Lords Select Committee on European Union
  The Committee’s main criticism centres on the perception that the German Presidency is circumventing established EU procedures in its attempt to incorporate the Treaty into EU law. In particular, there has been a failure to allow other Member States and the European Parliament proper opportunity to consider the proposal. It is also noted that the Treaty contains provisions on data protection which are intended to supplement a general Data Protection Framework Decision. The problems lie in the fact that the EU Framework Decision has yet to be agreed.

• Resilient or adaptable islam ? : Multiculturalism, religion and migrants’ claims-making for group demands in Britain, the Netherlands and France

  11 April 2007, by Ethnicities
  Plusieurs pays d’Europe occidentale ont fait au cours des dernières années l’expérience du multiculturalisme en répondant aux exigences, non d’individus, mais de groupes et en prenant en compte des différences culturelles qui sont en fait des différences religieuses.

• Accord sur la mise en réseau des banques de données policières en Europe en vue d’une répression efficace des crimes

  21 février 2007, par European Presidency
  Le Conseil des ministres de la Justice et des Affaires intérieures de l’Union européenne qui s’est tenu le jeudi 15 février à Bruxelles a permis de parvenir à un accord politique sur la transposition des dispositions essentielles du Traité de Prüm (Eifel/Allemagne) dans le cadre juridique de l’UE. Le projet de décision y afférent devra être transmis sans délai au Parlement européen pour avis. Ainsi, la procédure de transposition du Traité dans le cadre juridique de l’UE pourrait encore aboutir sous présidence allemande.

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