{"id":3719,"date":"2025-01-22T15:22:41","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T13:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crossborderitem.eu\/interview-with-item-researchers-free-movement-for-workers-halts-at-flemish-dutch-border\/"},"modified":"2025-01-22T15:28:00","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T13:28:00","slug":"interview-with-item-researchers-free-movement-for-workers-halts-at-flemish-dutch-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crossborderitem.eu\/en\/interview-with-item-researchers-free-movement-for-workers-halts-at-flemish-dutch-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with ITEM researchers: Free movement for workers halts at the Flemish-Dutch border"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Working across the Flemish-Dutch border remains difficult due to legal hurdles and sectoral mismatches, leaving the economic potential of cross-border work underutilized. As Sander Kramer and Pim Mertens (ITEM) say, \u201cWhat is a mosquito to the government is an elephant to the people affected.\u201d The Coordination Point Border Obstacles Flanders-Netherlands (Het Schakelpunt Grensbelemmeringen) aims to remove these obstacles, but real progress requires better cooperation and policies to increase opportunities for cross-border work. The ITEM researchers stress the importance of testing legislation for effects across borders and in the border region: prevention is better than cure.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.de-lage-landen.com\/article\/vrij-verkeer-voor-werknemers-stokt-aan-de-vlaams-nederlandse-grens\/\">Read the news article in <em>de lage landen<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Working across the Flemish-Dutch border remains difficult due to legal hurdles and sectoral mismatches, leaving the economic potential of cross-border work underutilized. As Sander Kramer and Pim Mertens (ITEM) say, \u201cWhat is a mosquito to the government is an elephant to the people affected.\u201d The Coordination Point Border Obstacles Flanders-Netherlands (Het Schakelpunt Grensbelemmeringen) aims to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":1809,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"thema":[61,69],"class_list":["post-3719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","thema-labour-market-and-economy","thema-pension-fiscal-and-social-security"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossborderitem.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossborderitem.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossborderitem.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossborderitem.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossborderitem.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3719"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/crossborderitem.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3722,"href":"https:\/\/crossborderitem.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3719\/revisions\/3722"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossborderitem.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossborderitem.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossborderitem.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossborderitem.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3719"},{"taxonomy":"thema","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossborderitem.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thema?post=3719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}