{"id":134064,"date":"2021-12-08T16:33:13","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T15:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=134064"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:26:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:26:02","slug":"government-covid-pass-is-last-resort-in-higher-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2021\/12\/08\/government-covid-pass-is-last-resort-in-higher-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Government: Covid pass is \u2018last resort\u2019 in higher education"},"content":{"rendered":"

The House of Representatives drew up a long list of written questions about the possible introduction of mandatory Covid passes in secondary vocational and higher education. The government was quick to answer those questions, notably by making all the answers roughly the same.<\/p>\n

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The government regards the introduction of Covid passes in higher education as a step not to be taken lightly, Minister of Health Hugo de Jonge assured the House. In his written answers the expression \u2018last resort\u2019 appears more than fifty times.<\/p>\n

Moreover, the House of Representatives can \u2013 after the proposed legal amendment \u2013 still intervene, because the government will submit the introduction to the Members first. Parliament has \u201ca de facto right of veto\u201d, underlines De Jonge.<\/p>\n\n\t

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