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Friday, 29 May, 2020

Flanders’ favourite soap starts shooting again after being ‘coronaproofed’

The lockdown has led to an increase of some 25% in people watching TV, but in Flanders, they have had to do without their favourite soap opera. ...

Exit plan: ‘relaxations are not happening too fast’

The relaxations of the measures to stop the further spread of the new coronavirus (Covid-19) have had no effect on the figures, said the Federal ...

Fake real estate agents ‘threat to the industry’

The Professional Institute of Real Estate Agents (IPI) opened an average of one file per day against a fake agent last year, it said Friday in its ...

Coronavirus: summer heatwaves will be challenging

As the weather services predict a very warm and dry summer with probable heatwaves, this presents several challenges in keeping the new coronavirus ...

Opinion

Tobacco traceability in the EU: is big tobacco in the driver’s seat?

In the runup to World No Tobacco Day (May 31st), the World Health Organization published three groundbreaking ...

Tom Davis

Covid-19: Nine reflections on society and politics

For me who worked for years in the Turkish parliament, as well as journalist, blogger and as a university ...

Mine Yildiz

The EU should urgently start a probe into violations of human rights in the Indian occupied Kashmir

The restrictions on movements in the wake of COVID-19 have crippled social life across the world. People have ...

Andy Vermaut

5G, COVID-19, and the need to inoculate Europe against disinformation

Over the past two months, a few select categories of “essential” professionals have kept a confined Europe ...

David Lee

To recover from COVID-19, the EU cannot afford the cost of inequality

As the EU negotiates a plan for economic recovery from the COVID-19 crisis, our economies cannot afford ...

Zeljko Jovanovic

Will Covid-19 sink Britain’s freeport ambitions?

For months, the coronavirus pandemic has held Europe in its cold grip, but with the EU and the UK beginning ...

Thomas Neill

UNRWA’s COVID-19 Disconnect

No-one in UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, appears ...

Simon Waldman and Asaf Romirowsky

The power of improvisation theater in times of Covid-19

When I started an introduction theater course three years ago, I was not expecting the impact it would have ...

Johan Somers

Corona app – a silver bullet?

During this current “corona-chapter” in European history, we often come across the term ‘Silver bullet.’ It ...

Pernille Weiss

Increasing extreme poverty is the biggest drama of this pandemic

Absolute poverty occurs not because we do not have enough wealth or generate sufficient income, but because ...

David Abuchar Luna

Top Opinions

The EU should urgently start a probe into violations of human rights in the Indian occupied Kashmir

The restrictions on movements in the wake of COVID-19 have crippled social life across the world. People have ...

Andy Vermaut

Increasing extreme poverty is the biggest drama of this pandemic

Absolute poverty occurs not because we do not have enough wealth or generate sufficient income, but because ...

David Abuchar Luna

Happy people in the world’s happiest country?

“Why is nobody smiling around here,” my Norwegian friend asked me when, during his visit, we walked along the ...

Emilia Koivisto

Comparing Sweden’s Covid-19 testing with other countries in Europe

Sweden’s approach to the coronavirus pandemic has been unusual. To date the country has avoided confinement, ...

Sam Rainsy

Police brutality and racial profiling in Brussels

A police control in Belgium is violent. Officers in plain clothes or in uniform in groups of up to ten, ...

Suzannah Victoria Beatrice Henty

Historical postal operators are already too late in the game

Belgium national post Bpost has recently announced that it will get rid of around 30 percent (or 4,000) of ...

Tim Potocnik

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 did Brussels become the capital of Europe? Because Belgium starts with letter B!

9 May 1950: The French foreign minister Robert Schuman makes his famous declaration calling for Germany, ...

Philippe Van Parijs

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Top Opinions

The EU should urgently start a probe into violations of human rights in the Indian occupied Kashmir

The restrictions on movements in the wake of COVID-19 have crippled social life across the world. People have ...

Andy Vermaut

Happy people in the world’s happiest country?

“Why is nobody smiling around here,” my Norwegian friend asked me when, during his visit, we walked along the ...

Emilia Koivisto

Police brutality and racial profiling in Brussels

A police control in Belgium is violent. Officers in plain clothes or in uniform in groups of up to ten, ...

Suzannah Victoria Beatrice Henty

Historical postal operators are already too late in the game

Belgium national post Bpost has recently announced that it will get rid of around 30 percent (or 4,000) of ...

Tim Potocnik

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

Become an opinion maker

Magazine

Belgium on track for sunniest spring in recorded history

Belgium is on track to wrap up its warmest spring season in recorded history, with the country's typically unstable weather this year ...

How all pupils will return to school in Belgium

The different ministers responsible for education in Belgium, in consultation with the Group of Experts for the Exit Strategy (GEES), ...

Belgium could allow travel in Europe again from mid-June

Belgian residents could be given the green-light for travel inside Europe from mid-June, Foreign Affairs Minister Philippe Goffin said on ...

EU dilemma: How to open up to tourism without spreading the coronavirus

The European Commission presented last week a package of guidelines and recommendations to help member states gradually lift travel ...

Top economist: ‘Let older people pay a corona tax’ to support the young

A Belgian economist has proposed a special tax on older people to help the young overcome the economic problems caused by the coronavirus ...

‘Know the risks’ as lockdowns lift, expert warns

Hosting a few friends at home could be riskier than going grocery shopping or having a jogger whisk past you when it comes to catching the ...

After the crisis: Proposals for a European Health Union

The coronavirus pandemic hit the EU and its member states unprepared without a common policy to contain the spread of the virus. Now there ...

Moral dilemma: Saving lives when resources are scarce

The infection and mortality curves in most countries have not yet been flattened. With the limited number of intensive-care units and ...

Belgium in Brief: Meeting Some Friends?

As more pupils can go back to school and the hospitality sector will likely reopen its doors to clients, we will probably be allowed to see more than four ...

Belgium in Brief: Meeting Some Friends?

As more pupils can go back to school and the hospitality sector will likely reopen its doors to clients, we will probably be allowed to see more than ...

Some good news to take you into the long weekend

Coronavirus: Belgian cinemas itch to reopen by summertime

Council of State rejects appeal on ban on religious services

Traffic fines are being paid faster since digitalisation