Critical meetings to thrash up government asylum policy DutchNews.nl on 6 de July, 2023 at 8:38
The government is in ‘critical’ meetings to try to agree new policy on asylum seekers. A meeting of party leaders last night began at 9.30pm and Dutch media report that prime minister Mark Rutte wants to reach a decision by Friday, so is putting pressure on his three coalition partners. Rutte has said that he wants a crackdown on certain immigration in response to concerns from his VVD party, as numbers of asylum seekers are expected to increase this year…
France continues to withhold approval of the free trade deal between the European Union (EU) and Mercosur (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay) unless it includes environmental and ‘mirror clause’ provisions. This stance reflects France’s insistence since 2019 on incorporating international climate goals and principles into EU trade agreements, a practice recently demonstrated in an agreement […]
On November 22, 2023, OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, announced the reinstatement of Sam Altman as CEO. Altman’s return follows his dismissal on November 17 by the company’s Board of Directors. Investor intervention and employee threats of mass resignation led to this turnaround. OpenAI communicated this news on X, previously known as Twitter. They mentioned […]
The Office of Institutional Security of the Presidency of the Republic (GSI) unveiled a proposal for a new fee to finance an internet regulatory agency. This proposal forms part of what is called the National Cybersecurity Policy and suggests a fee, termed TCiber, that would be paid by internet users. Some say, however, that this […]