2.4 billion tax increase on vehicles since 2015
Thursday, 15 November 2018 14:40
All motor vehicle taxes have increased over two years.
Parliament divided over compensation for terror attack victims
Thursday, 15 November 2018 10:00
Federal minister for work Kris Peeters has encountered widespread opposition to his plan to make compensation to victims of terrorist attacks faster and better.
N-VA torpedoes plans to sign Belgium up to UN migration pact
Thursday, 15 November 2018 09:52
The signature by Belgium of the United Nations pact on migration, promised to the assembly by prime minister Charles Michel in New York in September, looked to be in jeopardy this week as the coalition party N-VA threatened not to back the proposal to sign.
Vlaams Belang leader De Winter accused of meetings with Chinese spy
Wednesday, 14 November 2018 10:11
Filip Dewinter, parliamentary leader of the far-right Vlaams Belang, has denied regular meetings with a man suspected of being a Chinese spy.
Communists of PVDA/PTB join council majority in Zelzate
Sunday, 11 November 2018 10:35
For the first time ever, a Communist political party has joined a majority coalition in a Belgian municipality.
Car that ran into Michel-May motorcade was “unfortunate accident”
Saturday, 10 November 2018 10:09
Two members of a police motorcycle escort accompanying prime minister Charles Michel and his British counterpart Theresa May were injured yesterday when a car ran into the motorcade in what was later described as “an unfortunate accident”.
Belgium's finance minister proposes major reform of National Bank
Thursday, 08 November 2018 17:01
Minister of Finance Johan Van Overtveldt (N-VA) places at the government’s table a major reform of the National Bank of Belgium (NBB), providing fewer mandates, more women and a decrease in wages at the Institution, L'Echo and De Tijd report Thursday.
Bourgeois steps in to defuse governorship stand-off in East Flanders
Wednesday, 07 November 2018 11:25
Flemish minister-president Geert Bourgeois is to hold talks with representatives of Open VLD and his own party N-VA in East Flanders, to try to settle a dispute over the nomination of a new governor of the province.
Sierra Leone President visits the Antwerp Diamond Quarter
Tuesday, 06 November 2018 13:04
On Monday, the new President of Sierra Leone, Julius Maada Bio, visited Antwerp’s Diamond Quarter.
Nomination of new National Bank director causes political problems
Saturday, 03 November 2018 11:41
The nomination of former minister Steven Vanackere as a director of the steering council of the National Bank (BNB) has caused complaints among government coalition parties, and within Vanackere’s own CD&V party itself.
