Showing posts with label Belgium. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Belgium. Show all posts
Sunday, September 14, 2025

The black market in stolen homing pigeons

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  Below are some excerpts from a long interesting story in the Washington Post, about how a boom in pigeon racing in China led to a rash of ...
Sunday, December 1, 2024

Workers' rights for sex workers in Belgium

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  Sex work isn't merely legal in Belgium, it's now recognized as work. The BBC has the story:   Belgium's sex workers get matern...
Tuesday, January 23, 2024

The war on drugs is a war

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The war on drugs doesn't begin at U.S. borders. Here's a dispatch from Ecuador, in the WSJ: Ecuador Is at War With Drug Gangs, Presi...
Sunday, April 23, 2023

Medical aid in dying: access for children, and for mental illness

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Two recent articles discuss whether there should be categorical limits on medical aid in dying (MAID).  In the Netherlands, the law now perm...
Monday, October 17, 2022

Jacques Drèze (1929-2022)

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Jacques Drèze , the eminent Belgian economist who was the founding director of the Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE) at...
Sunday, April 21, 2019

"Rich meet beautiful" site prosecuted in Belgium

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The Guardian has the story: 'Sugar daddy' website owner charged with debauchery in Belgium Norwegian Sigurd Vedal’s site Ric...
Thursday, January 24, 2019

Kosher and halal slaughtering banned in Belgium

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The coalition of liberal animal rights activists and European anti-Semites and Islamophobes doesn't make the new laws easy to parse: ...
Sunday, May 17, 2009

School choice in Belgium and England

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School choice remains a hot topic (both academically and politically) in England and Belgium. Estelle Cantillon will be giving a paper ...
Monday, March 23, 2009

School choice in Belgium: update

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In an earlier post , I discussed some of the problems in the school choice systems in Belgium, and noted that Estelle Cantillon had organiz...
Saturday, March 7, 2009

School choice in Europe

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I've frequently blogged about the design of school choice systems , and that is in part because the problems of school choice are so wid...
Friday, December 12, 2008

School choice in Belgium

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Estelle Cantillon , a leading market designer working in Belgium, writes in LeSoir about the current school choice situation, following the ...