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Jan Marinus Wiersma

Jan Marinus Wiersma is a Fellow at the Wiarda Beckman Foundation, an independent social democratic think tank in the Netherlands. Previously, he was a Member of the European Parliament for the Dutch Labour Party (1994-2009) and has published extensively on European issues. He holds a degree in history.

Ukraine And EU Enlargement 10 Years After Big Bang

Jan Marinus Wiersma

While the world watches nervously the developments in Ukraine, one cannot but ask oneself what would have happened if the EU (and/or NATO for that

How To Make EU Governance More Effective

Jan Marinus Wiersma

Recently I was asked to speak somewhere in The Netherlands about Croatia and the European democracy debate. Of course I did not get very far