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    • Reynders gets nomination as new EU Commissioner
    Outgoing foreign minister Didier Reynders (MR) has been nominated as Belgium’s choice for the new EU Commission, which takes office in ...
    Reynders gets nomination as new EU Commissioner
    Outgoing foreign minister Didier Reynders (MR) has been nominated as Belgium’s choice for the new EU Commission, which takes office in October, but ...
    Belgian designer Alice Baré finishes her Russian coat
    Alice Baré had to finish a Russian royalty themed asymmetric coat in just 12 and a half hours, a task she managed to complete on Sunday. Baré is ...
    Thousand tourists evacuated due to fires in Greece
    Dozens of fires sprang up in Greece over the weekend, causing issues with smoke at popular tourist attractions.  Local civil protection ...
    European Union will retaliate if US taxes French wine
    President of the European Union Donald Tusk warned Donald Trump the European Union will retaliate if the US introduces a customs tax on French wine.  ...
    Increase of illegal medication in Belgium
    5,702 packages containing illegal medication were seized in Belgium last year.  Inspectors at the Federal Medication Agency’s (AFMPS) Special ...
    Belgium’s federal justice looking to recruit judicial officers
    Belgium's Justice department is looking for 190 substitutes to replace judicial officers who are ill or otherwise unavailable.  Justices of the ...
    Majority of checks on undocumented immigrants in Belgium carried out in Flanders
    Statistics show that 77.6% of the checks on undocumented immigrants were performed in Flanders.  It varied from 11 to 15% in Brussels and three ...
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    How cattle raiding violence is on the rise in Kenya
    As 16-year old Bob Salat sweats through revision work in preparation for his Kenya Certificate of Secondary ...
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    Why Tram Number 7 is the best way to discover Brussels
    When you take tram number 7 south towards Vanderkinderen from Louis Bertrand, you will pass the houses of ...
    Hugh James Dow
    What can China learn from Israel?
    China has achieved tremendous economic success in the past few decades, but its extensive growth relied ...
    Chen Gong
    What is wrong with the British left?
    The two of us were sitting rather awkwardly on small, uncomfortable, metal, foldable chairs. The location ...
    Sam Jenkinson
    The European Stale Mate on the Balkan Question
    The EU finds itself at a critical strategic juncture point about how to address the integration of Balkan ...
    Giorgio Trichilo
    Why the EU’s position on Hong Kong’s extradition bill lacks credibility
    In the past two months, social unrest caused by the now shelved extradition bill has become a fact of ...
    Justin Bong-Kwan
    The Fine Art of Fraud
    Last Friday, 17 Goldman Sachs bankers were hit with fresh criminal charges in the titanic 1MDB scandal, ...
    Steven Lind
    Renewed opposition to controversial Nord Stream 2 pipeline as it nears completion
    The consortium behind the contentious Nord Stream 2 pipeline has announced that the 510-kilometre long ...
    Igor Pliner
    The trinity of the U.S.-China trade war
    The U.S.-China trade war has recently become markedly complicated. Previous U.S.-China trade disputes were ...
    Chen Gong
    The 2019 UAPA Amendment Act: Footsteps of fascism in the world’s largest democracy
    "The object of terrorism is terrorism. The object of oppression is oppression. The object of torture is ...
    Pitamber Kaushik
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    Why Tram Number 7 is the best way to discover Brussels
    When you take tram number 7 south towards Vanderkinderen from Louis Bertrand, you will pass the houses of ...
    Hugh James Dow
    Is Belgium’s real estate bubble about to burst?
    The Belgian housing market is in a unique position, in that never has housing cost so much, in both real and ...
    Alexandre D'hoore
    Fragile European banking may trigger the next global crisis
    Eleven years after the global financial crisis, the European banking industry is once again preparing for ...
    Chen Gong
    What no government…The current state of Belgian politics and the rocky road ahead
    Belgium may not have an elected federal government at the moment, but you would be forgiven for not knowing ...
    Dafydd ab Iago
    UN memo points to the tobacco industry’s enduring influence
    Michael Moller, the outgoing head of the United Nations (UN) office in Geneva, made quite a splash when, on ...
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    Condemned and abandoned: The Belgian ghost town which refuses to disappear
    The village of Doel ‒ situated on the Scheldt River in Flanders ‒ was meant to be destroyed in favour of progress. That didn't happen. ...
    Freedom and captivity in Antarctica: interview with Belgian polar explorer Alain Hubert
    A polar explorer and climate change researcher, Alain Hubert divides his time between Antarctica and his native Belgium. In 2002, he ...
    Profit, Consumption and Value Chains: Following the trail of Brussels’ food waste
    It’s 7 p.m. at La Bascule. I park my bike behind a car in front of one of Brussels’ most prestigious bakeries. I introduce myself to one of ...
    How a street art start-up is helping to brighten up Brussels’ bare surfaces
    As a city, Brussels is often defined by the glass and steel of its office buildings.The European quarter, which appears in the ...
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    Best-selling author Derek Blyth takes you to some places you might never have heard about, in a country almost no one knows.The ...
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    Soaring stone columns cracked and crumbling, ornate metal arches gnawed at by rust: for the past two decades, in the historic heart of ...
    Derek Blyth’s hidden secrets of Brussels
    Derek Blyth is the author of the bestselling The 500 Hidden Secrets of Brussels. He picks out ten of his favourite hidden secrets in every ...
    One woman’s fight against homosexual prejudice in Brussels
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    Belgium in Brief: Best fries in Europe, Wallonia for sale and drinking on the street
    The best fries in Europe are - unsurprisingly - in Belgium, 700 people gather for an apero on the busiest road in Brussels and the N-VA youth try to sell ...
    Belgium in Brief: Best fries in Europe, Wallonia for sale and drinking on the street
    The best fries in Europe are - unsurprisingly - in Belgium, 700 people gather for an apero on the busiest road in Brussels and the N-VA youth try to ...
    Belgians take more risks on holiday, death toll at record high
    EU warns Brazil inaction on Amazon fires could threaten trade deal
    300 million earmarked to renovate Brussels’ sewer system
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    Music temple Ancienne Belgique to get a facelift
    School climate protests will return from 20 September
    The fires in the Amazon are an emergency that G7 needs to discuss – Angela Merkel
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    Renewed opposition to controversial Nord Stream 2 pipeline as it nears completion
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    Belgium
    Thousand tourists evacuated due to fires in Greece
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    Belgium’s federal justice looking to recruit judicial officers
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    Community demands justice for minor killed by police car
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    European Union will retaliate if US taxes French wine
    EU warns Brazil inaction on Amazon fires could threaten trade deal
    Reynders gets nomination as new EU Commissioner
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    Overworked cafe owners in Lillo have found a buyer
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    Reynders gets nomination as new EU Commissioner
    Vlaams Belang outspends other parties on online advertising
    School climate protests will return from 20 September
    Art & Culture
    Belgian designer Alice Baré finishes her Russian coat
    Music temple Ancienne Belgique to get a facelift
    Belgian restaurant named No.1 place for fries in Europe
    Health
    Belgians take more risks on holiday, death toll at record high
    Brexit could bring thousands of nurses to Belgium, but elsewhere jobs will be lost
    Lead in water: police reach agreement to address contaminated water in Brussels barracks
    World
    Belgians take more risks on holiday, death toll at record high
    EU warns Brazil inaction on Amazon fires could threaten trade deal
    School climate protests will return from 20 September
    Sports
    World Police and Fire Games: Brussels’ fire service staff proud of their 44 medals
    Fan zone created for Belgian women’s football home games
    European Open: Andy Murray will play in the Antwerp tournament
    Education
    Flemish schools hit by teacher shortage
    Two Belgian universities in world Top 100
    ULB and Ihecs college plan merger
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    Is Belgium’s real estate bubble about to burst?
    The Belgian housing market is in a unique position, in that never has housing cost so much, in both real and ...
    Alexandre D'hoore
    Fragile European banking may trigger the next global crisis
    Eleven years after the global financial crisis, the European banking industry is once again preparing for ...
    Chen Gong
    What no government…The current state of Belgian politics and the rocky road ahead
    Belgium may not have an elected federal government at the moment, but you would be forgiven for not knowing ...
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    UN memo points to the tobacco industry’s enduring influence
    Michael Moller, the outgoing head of the United Nations (UN) office in Geneva, made quite a splash when, on ...
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