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    • Belgian travellers urged to be cautious as coronavirus death toll mounts in Italy
    Belgians travelling to Italy were advised to heed recommendations from local authorities as officials grapple with a surge in confirmed ...
    Belgian travellers urged to be cautious as coronavirus death toll mounts in Italy
    Belgians travelling to Italy were advised to heed recommendations from local authorities as officials grapple with a surge in confirmed cases of the ...
    King Philippe invites Belgians born on same day as him to royal birthday bash
    King Philippe is looking to celebrate his 60th birthday with a hundred Belgian citizens who share the same birthday as him, the Belgian Monarchy ...
    First-ever consecration of Flemish Trappist monk draws thousands to Ghent
    The Flemish head of a well-known beer and cheese-making abbey has become the first-ever Trappist monk to be ordained as a bishop by the Catholic ...
    Further delays expected at Brussels Airport following police strike
    Travellers departing from Brussels Airport were paying the price for the police strike Monday morning. At the peak of morning departures, hour ...
    Antwerp exhibits new 16th century archaeological findings
    The exhibition "Onder de Leien, een gracht vol schatten" (Below the Leien, a canal full of treasures) has opened in Antwerp, presenting 150 ...
    ‘No antisemism’: Aalst botches live translation at Carnival press conference
    The international press came to the Belgian city of Aalst over the weekend to report on the Carnival parade, which again featured Jewish caricatures ...
    Voluntary resignations from Flemish government double in five years
    The number of voluntary resignations of people working for the Flemish government has doubled over the past five years. In 2019, 393 Flemish civil ...
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    It’s time governments introduce a meat tax
    At a recent event in the European Parliament, Compassion in World Farming EU joined other organisations in ...
    Olga Kikou
    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
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    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
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    "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
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    It’s time governments introduce a meat tax
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    Olga Kikou
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    There’s something rotten about the state of our educational system. Over the past year, several surveys and ...
    Alicja Gescinska
    Becoming Belgian
    I became Belgian last month. By accident. OK, it wasn’t totally by chance. I applied for Belgian ...
    Gareth Harding
    Is Europe headed for another recession?
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    Philippe Legrain
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    Antwerp exhibits new 16th century archaeological findings
    ‘No antisemism’: Aalst botches live translation at Carnival press conference
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    Patients blind in one eye after botched operations at Leuven hospital
    Parliament approves total ban on tobacco advertising
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    First imam training course starts in February
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    It’s time governments introduce a meat tax
    At a recent event in the European Parliament, Compassion in World Farming EU joined other organisations in ...
    Olga Kikou
    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
    Becoming Belgian
    I became Belgian last month. By accident. OK, it wasn’t totally by chance. I applied for Belgian ...
    Gareth Harding
    Is Europe headed for another recession?
    Is the eurozone heading for recession? How will policymakers react if the slowdown does get worse? And what ...
    Philippe Legrain
    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, ...
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