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Every article on the Belgian Constitutional Law Blog since 2014, including the new weekly analyses, by year, category and topic.
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- Catalonia
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- referendum
- independence
- Hervorming van de Senaat
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- grondwet
- federalisme
- EU Membership
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- Brussels
- Brussel
- asiel- en migratiebeleid
- art. 8 EVRM
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2020
- The annulment of the lifespan extension of Doel 1 and 2: the use of measures maintaining effects by the Constitutional Court compared with the Council of State
- Member of parliament, minister, judge. “But most of all I liked being a lawyer.”
- Flemish Government hungry to defederalise Belgian justice: towards a Flemish Council of State?
2019
- Francqui Chair Inaugural Lecture: “Freedom of expression and the right to offend: necessity or threat to democracy?”
- Study day: ‘The Migration Pact: chronicle of a crisis’
- Militant democracy: introducing a ban on political parties in Belgium?
- Monthly Overview – December 2018 and January 2019
- “Which Constitution after 2019?”: Synthesis report
- Closing seminar “Which Constitution after 2019”
- Voting via blockchain: a promising future?
- Urgenda and the separation of powers: will the courts solve the climate issue?
- End the musical chairs: towards a direct election of the mayor?
- Monthly Overview – November 2018
2018
- Which Constitution after 2019? Programme and registration
- Seminar: Which Constitution after 2019?
- Monthly Overview – October 2018
- Monthly Overview – July, August and September 2018
- Monthly Overview – June 2018
- Former politicians in the Constitutional Court: a necessary evil?
- Climate cases and the trias politica: are the dykes breaking?
- Monthly Overview – April and May 2018
- Report card on the new Transgender Act: progress and room for improvement
- Reform of the Court of Assizes: quo vadis?
- The Sudan saga: guidelines for a government carrying out returns
- Conference: “Parliamentary War Powers – National and European Perspectives”
- Monthly Overview – March 2018
- The bill on home entries: what now?
- Monthly Overview – February 2018
- Monthly Overview – January 2018
- Monthly Overview December 2017
2017
- Monthly Overview November 2017
- Reform of the provinces: quo vadis?
- Monthly Overview October 2017
- Monthly Overview July, August, September 2017
- Monthly Overview – June 2017
- Monthly Overview – April and May 2017
- Amendment of the Aliens Act: a first, critical review
- Intermunicipal companies and a ‘grabbing culture’: time for structural change
- Noise standards: end of a turbulent community flight in sight?
- The citizens' budget weighed up
- Monthly Overview – March 2017
- Cooperative federalism: have Belgians forgotten how to cooperate?
- Monthly Overview – February 2017
- Does Belgium need a state of emergency?
- Monthly Overview – December 2016 and January 2017
- Separation of church and state: towards a (truly) neutral Constitution? Interview with Thomas Leys (head of the Open Vld research department)
- The (leading) role of the municipalities in the Eandis saga: looking back and looking ahead
2016
- Monthly Overview – November 2016
- Monthly Overview – October 2016
- Lecture F. Tulkens ‘Fundamental rights and state security: inseparable allies’ (Constitutional Law Lecture Series – 30 November 2016)
- High Court gives “Brexiteers” a lesson in British constitutional law
- Developments in Belgian Constitutional Law: The Year 2015 in Review
- Monthly Overview – July, August, September 2016
- Monthly Overview – June 2016
- The two faces of counter-terrorism measures: fundamental rights and freedoms pressurized by counter-terrorism measures
- Monthly Overview – May 2016
- Monthly Overview – April 2016
- Ideological balance in US Supreme Court and Belgian Constitutional Court
- Monthly Overview – March 2016
- Monthly Overview – February 2016
- Integration of the Public Centres for Social Welfare in the municipality: the bipolar model under pressure
- Monthly Overview – December 2015 and January 2016
- 42nd Postgraduate Course Willy Delva: Legal protection in public law: can anything still be built in Flanders?
- Belgium and the refugee crisis: the quest for solutions
2015
- The Determinants of Emergency Constitutions
- The future of the Belgian Senate
- Monthly Overview – November 2015
- ‘The Constitution of Belgium’ by Patricia Popelier and Koen Lemmens – Exclusive discount via BelConLawBlog
- Measuring the Rule of Law and Identifying Its Determinants
- Recent developments in Scotland’s and Catalonia’s struggle for independence
- Monthly Overview – October 2015
- Challenges to democracy in the 21st century – Interview with Yves Leterme
- Pictures Online of Celebration 1 Year BelConLawBlog and Publication of “Recente ontwikkelingen in Belgisch grondwettelijk recht 2014-2015”
- Right to happiness: a new constitutional approach
- Monthly Overview – September 2015
- Constitutional Court upholds “New BHV”
- Interview with Prof. W. Van Eeckhoutte: defederalisation of social security
- Monthly Overview – August 2015
- Lecture by Yves Leterme ‘Challenges to democracy in the 21st century’ in celebration of 1 year BelConLawBlog
- Monthly Overview – July 2015
- Monthly Overview – June 2015
- We the People: more direct democracy after the sixth state reform?
- New article: Belgian federalism after the sixth state reform
- Monthly Overview – May 2015
- First, critical reflections on the introduction of a second reading of legislation in the Chamber
- Monthly Overview – April 2015
- Appointment of mayors in the municipalities around Brussels: the carousel keeps spinning after the sixth state reform
- Monthly Overview – March 2015
- Shedding light on the double aspect doctrine
- Judges de-escalate heated Belgian language conflict
- Philippe, last King of the Belgians? The role and future of the monarchy
- Monthly Overview – February 2015
- Monthly Overview – January 2015
- The future of Belgian federalism
- Monthly Overview – December 2014
2014
- The future of Brussels after the sixth state reform
- Implementing the Sixth State Reform: Exclusive interview with Flemish top civil servant Martin Ruebens
- Transfer of powers in the sixth state reform: Copernican revolution?
- Monthly Overview – November 2014
- Reform of Special Finance Act and regional fiscal autonomy
- Reform of the Senate: fresh start or step towards the end of bicameralism?
- Catalonia, the European State System and International Limits on Self-Determination
- BHV finally split-up through typical Belgian compromise
- Monthly Overview – October 2014
- Revision of the Constitution in the sixth state reform
- Catalonia votes today in symbolic referendum on independence!
- Video interview with Prof. Tierney: Should the People decide? The Scottish and Catalonian referenda
- Monthly overview September 2014
- Scottish and Catalonian referenda: BelConLawBlog’s first event with Prof. Stephen Tierney (29 October at Ghent University)
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