{"id":10898,"date":"2025-12-19T18:48:38","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T18:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pravnizapisi.rs\/?page_id=10898"},"modified":"2025-12-19T18:48:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T18:48:38","slug":"10898-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.pravnizapisi.rs\/en\/pravni-zapisi-1-2025\/10898-2\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\">PRAVNI ZAPISI \u2022 Year XVI \u2022 no. 2 \u2022 pp. 416\u2013440<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>IS ACADEMIC FREEDOM IN BELGIUM AND THE NETHERLANDS UNDER DURESS?<\/b><\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10868\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10868\" style=\"width: 100px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pravnizapisi.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/06-Maaike-Geuens.pdf\" data-wp-editing=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10868 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pravnizapisi.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/pravni-zapisi-2025-02-thumb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10868\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Language: English<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Maaike Geuens<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Assistant Professor, Open University Netherlands, Department of Strategic Management, The Netherlands<br \/>\n<\/b><\/span><span class=\"s2\"><strong>e-mail:<\/strong> <a href=\"mailto:maaike.geuens@ou.nl\"><span class=\"s3\">maaike.geuens@ou.nl<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\"><strong>ORCID ID:<\/strong> 0000-0002-2695-6356<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Pravni zapisi, No. 2\/2025, pp. 416-440<br \/>\nOriginal Scientific Article<br \/>\n<b>DOI:<\/b> 10.5937\/pravzap16-62617<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>KEY WORDS<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Academic Freedom, University Autonomy, Education, Governance, Higher Education, Belgium, Netherlands<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>ABSTRACT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Academic freedom is considered a cornerstone of democratic higher education, yet its institutional foundations are becoming increasingly fragile. This article examines how financial austerity and ideological contestation interact to reshape academic freedom. It argues that formal constitutional and supranational safeguards coexist with subtle but cumulative mechanisms of erosion, including performance-based funding, managerial governance, politicized scrutiny of specific disciplines, and transnational ideological interference. While Belgium and the Netherlands still perform comparatively well in Europe, the convergence of budgetary constraints and ideological polarization generates chilling effects, self-censorship and strategic compliance. The article concludes that academic freedom cannot be assumed to be secure by default. It calls for renewed safeguards, combined with institutional cultures and international alliances that strengthen the structural resilience of academic freedom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PRAVNI ZAPISI \u2022 Year XVI \u2022 no. 2 \u2022 pp. 416\u2013440 IS ACADEMIC FREEDOM IN BELGIUM AND THE NETHERLANDS UNDER DURESS? Maaike Geuens Assistant Professor, Open University Netherlands, Department of Strategic Management, The Netherlands e-mail: maaike.geuens@ou.nl ORCID ID: 0000-0002-2695-6356 Pravni zapisi, No. 2\/2025, pp. 416-440 Original Scientific Article DOI: 10.5937\/pravzap16-62617 KEY WORDS Academic Freedom, University Autonomy, Education, Governance, Higher Education, Belgium, Netherlands ABSTRACT Academic freedom is considered a cornerstone of democratic higher education, yet its institutional foundations are becoming increasingly fragile. This article examines how financial austerity and ideological contestation interact to reshape academic freedom. It argues that formal constitutional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":10594,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-article.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10898","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>- Pravni Zapisi<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pravnizapisi.rs\/en\/pravni-zapisi-1-2025\/10898-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"- Pravni Zapisi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"PRAVNI ZAPISI \u2022 Year XVI \u2022 no. 2 \u2022 pp. 416\u2013440 IS ACADEMIC FREEDOM IN BELGIUM AND THE NETHERLANDS UNDER DURESS? 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