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  1. Monthly Overview

    Monthly Overview July, August, September 2017

    July–September 2017 overview: Belgian constitutional law scholarship on the Stability Treaty judgment, Constitutional Court rulings 86–105/2017, conferences.

    Siemen Van den Broecke
  2. Monthly Overview

    Monthly Overview – June 2017

    June 2017 overview of Belgian constitutional law: new scholarship on referenda and legal aid, and Constitutional Court rulings 65/2017 to 84/2017.

    Marie DeCock
  3. Monthly Overview

    Monthly Overview – April and May 2017

    April–May 2017 overview: Belgian constitutional scholarship and Constitutional Court rulings on religion inspectors, state immunity and Municipalities Fund.

    Marie DeCock
  4. Analysis

    Amendment of the Aliens Act: a first, critical review

    Critical review of the 2017 Belgian Aliens Act amendment: expulsion on public order grounds, CJEU and ECtHR case law, non-suspensive appeal.

    Sam Daveloose, Tomas Van Respaille, Jurgen Goossens, Sien Devriendt e.a.
  5. Analysis

    Intermunicipal companies and a ‘grabbing culture’: time for structural change

    After Publifin and Publipart: an analysis of the Flemish preliminary draft decree on local government and whether it reforms intermunicipal companies.

    Sofie Onderbeke, Jeroen Sergeyssels, Jurgen Goossens, Sien Devriendt e.a.
  6. Analysis

    Noise standards: end of a turbulent community flight in sight?

    Brussels aircraft noise standards, the division of powers, two Flemish conflicts of interest, and whether refederalising noise rules would end the dispute.

    Sarah-Amilia Derijst, Tess Eeckhaudt, Lynn Mikolajczak, Jurgen Goossens e.a.
  7. Analysis

    The citizens' budget weighed up

    Participatory budgeting and the citizens' budget in Flemish municipalities: limits set by representative democracy, with Ghent and Antwerp examples.

    Angelo Goethals, Sofie Serwir, Siemen Van den Broecke, Florence Vanderweyden e.a.
  8. Monthly Overview

    Monthly Overview – March 2017

    March 2017 overview of Belgian constitutional law: new scholarship, Constitutional Court rulings on marriage postponement and psychotherapy, and conferences.

    Marie DeCock
  9. Analysis

    Cooperative federalism: have Belgians forgotten how to cooperate?

    Only six of the 26 cooperation agreements required by the Sixth State Reform were concluded. Why Belgian cooperative federalism stalls, and joint decrees.

    Marleen Bultynck, Lies Eeckhout, Jeroen Sergeyssels, Yasmine Verhofstadt e.a.