Grinding the Orange Axe Takeaways from the Venice Commission’s Opinion on the Legal Protection of Citizens in the Netherlands Schulte, Emma Author aut Text xx# 2021 Verfassungsblog 2021-11-02 eng
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 On October 18th, 2021, the Venice Commission adopted its opinion on the Dutch childcare benefit scandal and highlighted, albeit reluctantly, several shortcomings regarding the Netherlands’ adherence to the rule of law: A lack of parliamentary scrutiny, a disrupted flow of information in bureaucratic bodies and the need for constitutional review. Despite the opinion’s inherent potential to provide a thorough substantive addition to the rule of law conversation, it fails at doing so due to its evasiveness and its hesitance to address complicated Dutch customs, such as the current caretaker cabinet. CC BY-SA 4.0 Schulte, Emma funded by the government Childcare Allowance Scandal Rule of Law Venice Commission 342 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/grinding-the-orange-axe/ Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.17176/20211102-173238-0 211102 10.17176/20211102-173238-0 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)