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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 ...
    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 ...
    Inquiry launched over homophobic incident ignored by police officers
    As a homophobic incident is at the centre of an internal inquiry within the Bruxelles-Capitale-Ixelles police, the LGBT community is questioning ...
    Belgium’s teen climate leader will file complaint over attack at music festival
    Belgian climate leader Anuna De Wever will file a complaint after she was at the receiving end of an attack during a music festival, the teen ...
    Thousands of Belgians could lose bank accounts under new US banking law
    Thousands of Belgian nationals who were born in the United States could be faced with the prospect of having their Belgian bank accounts closed, ...
    Banned from match, over a dozen Antwerp FC supporters arrested in the Netherlands
    At least fourteen Belgian football fans were arrested in the Netherlands after they defied an order by the town mayor banning them from coming to the ...
    Around 700 people attend drinks on rue de la Loi to denounce climate change
    Around 700 people attended an urban aperitif in the middle of the busy rue de la Loi in Brussels on Thursday to discuss air pollution in the city, ...
    E313 highway completely blocked after two traffic accidents
    Traffic on the E313 highway from Antwerp to Liège is a complete standstill after two different traffic accidents took place on Friday morning.An ...
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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 ...
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    What can China learn from Israel?
    China has achieved tremendous economic success in the past few decades, but its extensive growth relied ...
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    What is wrong with the British left?
    The two of us were sitting rather awkwardly on small, uncomfortable, metal, foldable chairs. The location ...
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    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, ...
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    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 ...
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    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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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    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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    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 ...
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    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 ...
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    Belgium in Brief: Minor charged for DJ attack, art-deco restoration and an ode to the number 7 tram
    A minor has been charged after attacking a DJ, thirteen people have been banned from pools for harassment and an in-depth look at a tram ride through Brussels. ...
    Belgium in Brief: Minor charged for DJ attack, art-deco restoration and an ode to the number 7 tram
    A minor has been charged after attacking a DJ, thirteen people have been banned from pools for harassment and an in-depth look at a tram ride through ...
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    N-VA youth wing propose selling Wallonia to Trump for €1
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    Belgian restaurant named No.1 place for fries in Europe
    Belgium in Brief: Minor charged for DJ attack, art-deco restoration and an ode to the number 7 tram
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    Lufthansa offers passengers a new program to compensate for C02 emissions
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    European Open: Andy Murray will play in the Antwerp tournament
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    The Belgian housing market is in a unique position, in that never has housing cost so much, in both real and ...
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    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 ...
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