Jurian Langer
Head of European Law Division, Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Head Legal Agent for the Netherlands before the Court of Justice of the EU; Special Professor of European Law at University of Groningen.
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Jul 13, 2026
Jurian LangerGUEST
If you look at it from structural terms, within the Netherlands, we have a centralized agent structure.
Jurian LangerGUEST
meaning that the agents, they are part of the EU litigation team that is part of the Foreign Office.
Jurian LangerGUEST
I'm right now the head of agents, so we're seven agents that represent the government in the proceedings before the European courts.
Jurian LangerGUEST
And The litigation is part of the bigger European law division department, which is also part of a foreign office.
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Jurian LangerGUEST
If you look at it from structural terms, within the Netherlands, we have a centralized agent structure.
Jurian LangerGUEST
meaning that the agents, they are part of the EU litigation team that is part of the Foreign Office.
Jurian LangerGUEST
I'm right now the head of agents, so we're seven agents that represent the government in the proceedings before the European courts.
Jurian LangerGUEST
And The litigation is part of the bigger European law division department, which is also part of a foreign office.
31 MINS LATER