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Tuesday, 15 October, 2019

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The World of Bruegel in Black and White...

Flemish Alzheimerliga wants to maintain reimbursement of Alzheimer’s...

Extinction Rebellion co-founder on trial over attempted drone...

From Sheffield with love: 550 km pro-Europe cycle...

Gas prices down from Tuesday, LPG and...

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Belgian IS member flees from Syrian prison as Turkish offensive escalates

At least three Belgian members of the Islamic State (IS) were inside a Kurdish-controlled prison in Syra hit by a Turkish airstrike at the ...

Belgian IS member flees from Syrian prison as Turkish offensive escalates

At least three Belgian members of the Islamic State (IS) were inside a Kurdish-controlled prison in Syra hit by a Turkish airstrike at the weekend, ...

The World of Bruegel in Black and White exhibition to open in KBR in Brussels on Wednesday

The World of Bruegel in Black and White exhibition was inaugurated on Monday at the Royal Library of Belgium (KBR) and will open to the public on ...

Flemish Alzheimerliga wants to maintain reimbursement of Alzheimer’s disease medication

The Flemish Alzheimerliga, that represents patients with Alzheimer's disease and their families, is against the National Institute for Health and ...

Extinction Rebellion co-founder on trial over attempted drone disruption at Heathrow airport

Roger Hallam, co-founder of the environmental movement Extinction Rebellion, appeared on video on Monday in a London court on suspicion of attempting ...

From Sheffield with love: 550 km pro-Europe cycle will reach Brussels on Tuesday

Brussels will be visited by an anti-Brexit cycling tour on Tuesday, who have announced they will cycle 550 kilometres from Sheffield to Brussels to ...

Gas prices down from Tuesday, LPG and diesel prices up

Gas will be slightly cheaper at service stations from Tuesday while the prices of Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and diesel will increase, the Energy ...

Ethiopian Airlines to begin daily direct flights from Brussels to Addis Ababa

Ethiopian Airlines will run a daily direct flight between Brussels and Addis Ababa from 28 October, the airline, which is a member of the Star ...

Opinion

Western social movements need new public forums, if they want to succeed

A series of social movements have been taking place across the Western world, with the Yellow Jackets in ...

Audren Layeux

Europeans should care more about the plight of the Kashmiris

To ignore the plight of the innocent and voiceless people of Jammu and Kashmir is not just plain ignorance, ...

Mahrukh Mirza

Kazakhstan on the right path to strengthen its civil society

Europe’s largest annual human rights conference was held in Warsaw, Poland during 16-27 September. This year ...

Christophe Nourissier

Indonesian inaction forces EU’s hand with regard to palm oil forest fires

When Indonesia burns, ASEAN chokes – and palm oil and paper production appear to be the chief culprits. After ...

Steven Lind

Thanks to Greta, climate activists feel on the right side of history

I started following Greta Thunberg's activities a year ago after her first strike in Stockholm in front of ...

Mohamed Mezghani

The EU must reconsider its policy and embrace Iranian opposition to the regime

In the last two years, tensions between Iran and the international community have significantly risen. Mike ...

Ali Bagheri

It is a no-brainer: Europe should show Capitol Hill that it wants to talk

It has been a rollercoaster of a month for trade relations between the US and its biggest economic partner. ...

Jonathan Roberts

The “spirit of Oslo” can still be revived between Israelis and Palestinians, given the right circumstances

Exactly 26 years have passed since Palestinian Liberation Organisation Chairman (PLO), Yasser Arafat, and ...

Anna-Christina Schmidl

Education is the only antidote to credulity, fake news and right-wing populism

“The two parties that divide the state, the conservation party and the innovation party, are very old, and ...

David Abuchar Luna

Is a one-size fits all climate plan even possible?

Recent years have seen the rise of disparate social popular movements on both the right and left in Europe. ...

Alexandre D'hoore

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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

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 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

Lukaku’s Burden

When I first moved to the Rupelstreek, a cute but anonymous agglomeration of towns south of ...

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

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Top Opinions

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

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 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

Lukaku’s Burden

When I first moved to the Rupelstreek, a cute but anonymous agglomeration of towns south of ...

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

Become an opinion maker

Magazine

The individual side of Brexit in Belgium

As of 23 July, Brexit was thrust back into the mindset of the world when the UK’s newly appointed Prime Minister Boris Johnson pledged that ...

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 ...

Raised in limbo: The unmoored lives of Belgium’s Islamic State children

In a derelict camp in northern Syria, Belgian children are growing up in a lawless land.Their short lives have been defined by the ...

Benefits, risks and human nature: managing the Artificial Intelligence revolution

It was a medical scoop for the Benelux countries. Anaesthetists at the UZ Brussels hospital made use of new artificial intelligence (AI) ...

The Year of Silence: Belgium’s darkest moments during WWII

Historian Herman Van Goethem, rector of Antwerp University and a former director of Kazerne Dossin, the Holocaust and Human Rights Museum ...

Five questions to philosopher Philippe Van Parijs on Belgium’s post-electoral deadlock

Belgium’s federal elections were held on 26 May, the same day as the European and regional elections. Most spectacular was the leap forward ...

25 years after the genocide in Rwanda many questions still remain unanswered

This year marks a quarter century since the genocide in Rwanda but it still remains unclear who some of the main culprits were that ...

Power plays, personal ambitions and hard feelings: The consequences of a no-deal Brexit crash out

Thursday 31 October is set to be a big day for the European Union. It is the last day of Jean-Claude Juncker’s tenure as president of the ...

Antwerp drug baron on Belgium’s most wanted criminals list

Moroccan Rachid Bouazza was added to the list of the “most wanted” criminals by the Federal Police Fast Team, which now has 20 names.The 55-year-old drug ...

Antwerp drug baron on Belgium’s most wanted criminals list

Moroccan Rachid Bouazza was added to the list of the “most wanted” criminals by the Federal Police Fast Team, which now has 20 names.The ...

Millions across EU support record-breaking push to end caged farming

Biggest pumpkins in Europe award given to three Antwerp growers

Charles Michel visits Finland

Number of tram incidents drops as Brussels network grows