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Wednesday, 27 May, 2020

Coronavirus: self-employed adapt business models

42% of self-employed workers and SMEs changed their business model during the containment measures, according to a survey by the Neutral Union for ...

University scraps software for online exams after teething troubles

The university of Louvain-la-Neuve (UCL) has cancelled plans to set 40 exams online using the testing platform TestWe, after a number of bugs ...

Coronavirus: companies can’t force testing of asymptomatic employees

Companies can offer their symptom-free employees to be tested for coronavirus but cannot force them to do so, De Standaard reported on Wednesday. ...

Playgrounds reopen for children under 13

Children under 13 will be allowed to play in public playgrounds again from Wednesday, after local authorities were given the green light to reopen ...

Opinion

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

An Indian Tribute to Europe on Europe Day

Happy Europe Day to all Europeans, Friends of Europe and all my fellow Indians who love the Continent! ...

Shairee Malhotra

Korea’s perspective on COVID-19: Beyond Pride and Prejudice

We are all seeking the right balance between core values. According to the Worldometer statistics, ...

Ambassador YOON Soon-gu

Scorched Earth policy in the face of COVID-19

To block the advance of the coronavirus which we can’t directly attack because we haven’t yet found a ...

Sam Rainsy

Top Opinions

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

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

The ‘Frugal Four’ repeats the same policy as in previous financial crisis

European solidarity is invoked in the on-going coronavirus crisis and the economic crisis it has given rise ...

Mose Apelblat

Coronavirus: Life in Prague in the shadow of the virus

On Friday, the number of infected persons in the Czech Republic increased to 833 cases, with no fatalities ...

Denise Özdemir

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

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

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

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

Become an opinion maker

Magazine

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 ...

Seaside healing: The Belgian town that almost saved Marvin Gaye

Six thousand one hundred and five kilometres lie between Washington DC and Ostend. The Atlantic Ocean and a cultural chasm separate the ...

Five Questions to philosopher Philippe Van Parijs on basic income and the coronavirus

The American Congress decided in March that most US citizens will be paid an unconditional income of 1200 dollars. Dozens of members of ...

Belgium in Brief: New Metro? New Lockdown?

Amid the ever-changing coronavirus news - including claims that the only way to stop a second outbreak would be a second lockdown - Brussels is starting to ...

Belgium in Brief: New Metro? New Lockdown?

Amid the ever-changing coronavirus news - including claims that the only way to stop a second outbreak would be a second lockdown - Brussels is ...

Brussels Airlines: Rescue plan clashes with EU rules

Colosseum in Rome will reopen from Monday

Discount ban: Carrefour cuts prices as market share grows

Brussels students will take exams in Ancienne Belgique