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    • Flemish government shifts disability budget: what changes?
    2,300 Flemish people with disabilities who are at the top of the waiting list will receive money for specialised help due to adjustments in ...
    Flemish government shifts disability budget: what changes?
    2,300 Flemish people with disabilities who are at the top of the waiting list will receive money for specialised help due to adjustments in the ...
    The oil sector can ‘do much more’ to address climate crisis
    The oil and gas sector can "do much more" to address the climate crisis, by diversifying more into clean energy, which accounts for only 1% of ...
    Investigation into possible infiltration of Belgian intelligence
    The I Committee, an independent body which oversees the activities of the military and civilian intelligence services, is investigating some 20 ...
    “Spectacular” increase in numbers signing a living property mandate in Belgium
    Last year saw an increase in the number of people signing a mandate for the administration of their property should they ever become unable to do so ...
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    Leuven sends refugees back to slum landlord they escaped from
    The city of Leuven has sent 18 refugees who they put up in a hotel to escape from slum rental properties back to the previous landlord, the ...
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    The European Commission has recently published what is known as the 2019 R&D (research and development) ...
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    Wilfried Verstraete
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    For the third year in a row, the famed Mediterranean diet was dubbed the healthiest in the US News and World ...
    Simon Klein
    EU citizens and Britons in Europe face indefinite future as bargaining chips
    “The habit-forming pain, Mismanagement and grief, We must suffer them all again” W.H.Auden, from the ...
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    Europe is between a rock and a hard place trying to balance its alliance with the US and its interests in ...
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    Belgium can win the 2020 Euros and the 2022 World Cup
    The atmosphere in the Roi Baudoin stadium when Belgium beat Cypress on the last day of qualifying was jovial. ...
    Alexandre D'hoore
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    Europe’s and Huawei’s joint journey is entering a new phase. As we’re entering a new decade tomorrow, the ...
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    The European Commission has recently published what is known as the 2019 R&D (research and development) ...
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    The U.S. start-up Clearview collects billions of online photos of unknown people and shares them with public ...
    Maximilian Kunisch
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    We had been waiting for this for months: the first case of CEO fraud using software to mimic the human voice ...
    Wilfried Verstraete
    EU citizens and Britons in Europe face indefinite future as bargaining chips
    “The habit-forming pain, Mismanagement and grief, We must suffer them all again” W.H.Auden, from the ...
    Roger Casale
    Shooting an Elephant: History and memory in the Tervuren Museum
    “When the white man turns tyrant, it is his own freedom that he destroys,” wrote George Orwell in Shooting an ...
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    One life at a time: An immigration policy void spurs network of citizen solidarity in Brussels
    At their request, the names of the asylum seekers and of the hosts have been changed to protect their identities. Since he started ...
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    The U.S. start-up Clearview collects billions of online photos of unknown people and shares them with public ...
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    We had been waiting for this for months: the first case of CEO fraud using software to mimic the human voice ...
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    EU citizens and Britons in Europe face indefinite future as bargaining chips
    “The habit-forming pain, Mismanagement and grief, We must suffer them all again” W.H.Auden, from the ...
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    “When the white man turns tyrant, it is his own freedom that he destroys,” wrote George Orwell in Shooting an ...
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