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    • In Photos: Baltic farmers occupy Brussels
    Around 200 Lithuanian, Estonian and Latvian milk producers gathered on Thursday morning in Brussels, near the Schuman roundabout, to call ...
    In Photos: Baltic farmers occupy Brussels
    Around 200 Lithuanian, Estonian and Latvian milk producers gathered on Thursday morning in Brussels, near the Schuman roundabout, to call for more ...
    Higher home prices give first-time buyers pause
    Belgians are waiting longer to buy their first homes due to increased real-estate prices, the Immotheker Finotheker consultancy firm found in a study ...
    Brussels Airport police begin go-slow on Friday morning
    Identity checks could take longer on Friday at Brussels Airport, where police will begin a go-slow from 6.00 a.m., Joery Dehaes, spokesman of the ...
    European Budget : Charles Michel convinced progress is possible
    A summit on the EU’s next budget cycle, 2021-2027, begun on Thursday afternoon, had all the makings of a tricky discussion, but European Council ...
    Coronavirus cost Air France-KLM up to €200 million
    Air France-KLM has estimated a shortfall of between 150 and 200 million euros due to the suspension of its flights to China from February to April ...
    Coolblue will open three stores in Brussels and Wallonia in 2020
    Coolblue plans to open three new stores in Brussels and Wallonia, the Dutch e-commerce company announced on Thursday while releasing its annual ...
    Storm risk: 1722 reactivated as 80 km/h winds hit Belgium
    The Federal Service for Internal Affairs announced at noon on Thursday that the 1722 number has been temporarily activated due to RMI's (Royal ...
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    Pardon my French – On the need to improve our French
    There’s something rotten about the state of our educational system. Over the past year, several surveys and ...
    Alicja Gescinska
    The EU should keep pursuing international free trade
    Global trade growth has been in a slowdown for a decade. Contributing to the trend is a recent rise in ...
    Tanja Porčnik
    EU’s ‘privileged trade scheme’ suspension with Cambodia is a blessing in disguise
    I would like to convey to the European Union the following message: There are responsible and foresighted ...
    Sam Rainsy
    I vote for regime change in Iran
    On February 21, 2020, the so-called parliamentary elections will be held in Iran for the 290 seats of the ...
    Ali Bagheri
    Isabel Caño Aguilar: “Together against the fake news”
    "We live in a time where boundaries between opinions and facts disappear and where the findings of science no ...
    Isabel Caño Aguilar
    Building peace in South Asia requires a settlement for Kashmiris
    The human rights situation in Indian controlled Jammu and Kashmir is self-evidently intolerable for much of ...
    John Howarth
    Belgium can save the world from doomsday this month: what is it waiting for?
    In February, Belgium chairs the United Nations Security Council. As such, it can support the demand for the ...
    Andrea Venzon
    Remembering Patrice Lumumba
    Patrice Émery Lumumba, the first democratically elected Prime Minister of the present-day Democratic Republic ...
    Anna-Christina Schmidl
    The never ending Brexit story: an attempt at satire
    As per a universally un-read 541 page withdrawal agreement ratified earlier this week by the EU, the UK will ...
    Alexandre D'hoore
    R&D: Huawei is an ideal partner for the EU
    The European Commission has recently published what is known as the 2019 R&D (research and development) ...
    Abraham Liu
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    Pardon my French – On the need to improve our French
    There’s something rotten about the state of our educational system. Over the past year, several surveys and ...
    Alicja Gescinska
    The EU should keep pursuing international free trade
    Global trade growth has been in a slowdown for a decade. Contributing to the trend is a recent rise in ...
    Tanja Porčnik
    EU’s ‘privileged trade scheme’ suspension with Cambodia is a blessing in disguise
    I would like to convey to the European Union the following message: There are responsible and foresighted ...
    Sam Rainsy
    Becoming Belgian
    I became Belgian last month. By accident. OK, it wasn’t totally by chance. I applied for Belgian ...
    Gareth Harding
    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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    How Artificial Intelligence could transform the European economic and political landscape
    Are superhuman computers set to steal our jobs, take over the world and perhaps even kill off humanity? Such fears are commonplace in ...
    Five questions to philosopher Philippe Van Parijs on the best electoral system
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    Alicja Gescinska
    The EU should keep pursuing international free trade
    Tanja Porčnik
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    Sam Rainsy
    I vote for regime change in Iran
    Ali Bagheri
    Isabel Caño Aguilar: “Together against the fake news”
    Isabel Caño Aguilar
    Building peace in South Asia requires a settlement for Kashmiris
    John Howarth
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    Higher home prices give first-time buyers pause
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    Coolblue will open three stores in Brussels and Wallonia in 2020
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    European Budget : Charles Michel convinced progress is possible
    European Commission earmarks €900 million for humanitarian aid
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    Coolblue will open three stores in Brussels and Wallonia in 2020
    Property rush in 2019 brings €305 million into Flemish treasury
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    Brussels lowers mandatory school starting age
    Ministers need car ‘with standing, not a Toyota’, says Ben Weyts
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    Coronavirus cost Air France-KLM up to €200 million
    European Commission earmarks €900 million for humanitarian aid
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    Bright Brussels festival sees record attendance despite storms
    ZOO Planckendael asks public to choose name for bonobo baby
    Brussels Bourse building to be transformed into Beer Museum
    Health
    Belgium enters the Top Ten countries battling tobacco use
    Winter holidaymakers warned: already 15 deaths from avalanches
    UZ Leuven uses new technique to combat epilepsy
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    Belgium’s Red Devils remain No.1 in FIFA rankings
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    Ixelles bans school outings to the zoo
    First imam training course starts in February
    Using cellphone while driving punishable by 116 euro fine
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    Asbestos still present in 80% of Flemish schools in Brussels
    Flemish minister Weyts wants an end to school strikes
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    Pardon my French – On the need to improve our French
    There’s something rotten about the state of our educational system. Over the past year, several surveys and ...
    Alicja Gescinska
    The EU should keep pursuing international free trade
    Global trade growth has been in a slowdown for a decade. Contributing to the trend is a recent rise in ...
    Tanja Porčnik
    EU’s ‘privileged trade scheme’ suspension with Cambodia is a blessing in disguise
    I would like to convey to the European Union the following message: There are responsible and foresighted ...
    Sam Rainsy
    Becoming Belgian
    I became Belgian last month. By accident. OK, it wasn’t totally by chance. I applied for Belgian ...
    Gareth Harding
    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
    Become an opinion maker