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Published: 28 May 2021 ~ Meetings on Dispute regulations hold off on handling~ PHILIPSBURG: --- The Kingdom Council of Ministers has given their support to State Secretary Raymond Knops to continue withholding the 5th tranche of liquidity support from St. Maarten until there is tangible improvement with Corporate Governance at the Princess Juliana International Airport (PJIAE). St. Maarten was given until May 26th, 2021 to regulate the issues at PJIAE however, the deadline has not b...

Handling Dispute Regulation deferred THE HAGUE - The handling of the law proposal to establish the Dispute Regulation for the Kingdom in the First Chamber of Dutch Parliament has been postponed on the request of the Dutch government. Caretaker Undersecretary of Home Affairs and Kingdom Relations Raymond Knops, also on behalf of the caretaker Prime Minister Mark Rutte of General Affairs, sent a letter to the Senate on Friday to request a postponement of the handling of the Dispute Regulation for...

PHILIPSBURG--Prime Minister Silveria Jacobs and Minister of Finance Ardwell Irion traveled to the Netherlands on May 25, 2021, to rectify the...

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Emmanuel not surprised by actions of weak PM Jacobs, sneaky Knops Published: 13 May 2021 ~ Says Doncher the latest scapegoat for govt. failures ~ PHILIPSBURG:--- Independent Member of Parliament Christophe Emmanuel on Wednesday said the two things became very clear when State Secretary Raymond Knops once again blackmailed St. Maarten in return for liquidity: The Dutch government recognizes that they are dealing with a weak St. Maarten government and an even weaker Prime Minist...

LUXEMBOURG (CN) — Upholding a European Union-wide ban on pulse fishing Thursday, the bloc’s highest court dealt a major blow Thursday to a common fishing practice in the Netherlands where fish are dislodged from their seabeds and then scooped into nets via electrodes that cause muscle spasms. “In the field of fisheries, the EU legislature enjoys a wide discretion,” a panel of judges from the European Court of Justice wrote. The decision is unsigned and, so far, not available in English....

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: The recent decision of the Spanish Constitutional Court will be of great interest to parties, who are choosing the seat of arbitration when concluding the arbitration clause in their contract or when submitting a pre-existing dispute to arbitration. This is because the seat of arbitration is the forum where an arbitral award can be challenged i.e., sought to be annulled, and so considered null and void.  This can, in turn, significan...

A cyclist passes a closed bar in Dublin, Ireland, last October. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison) LUXEMBOURG (CN) — When Peadar Mac Fhlannchadha walked into a pharmacy to pick up medicine for his dog, he was not expecting to start a five-year legal battle over pharmaceutical labeling, culminating in the first Irish language case before the European Union’s high court. He just wanted his 10-year-old dog Samhain to feel better.  On Wednesday, the European Court of Justice found that Ireland must re...

Cows grazing in Tubbercurry, County Sligo, Ireland. (Barbara Leonard photo, special to Courthouse News) LUXEMBOURG (CN) — The European Union’s high court held on Wednesday that EU law doesn’t preclude Ireland from requiring foreign lawyers to work with local counsel. Finding that the requirement doesn’t create an undue burden on litigants or violate the EU’s free movement of goods and services, the European Court of Justice ruled against Volkmar Klohn, an organic farmer living in Tubb...