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    • Heatwave: code red declared for most of Belgium
    Due to the extreme heat, Belgium’s Royal Meteorological Institute (RMI) is declaring code red for most of Belgium as of Saturday. Code ...
    Heatwave: code red declared for most of Belgium
    Due to the extreme heat, Belgium’s Royal Meteorological Institute (RMI) is declaring code red for most of Belgium as of Saturday. Code red ...
    New European hour record set by Norwegian Sondre Moen
    Norwegian athelete Sondre Moen set a new European hourly record on Friday, running 21.132 kilometers on the Kristiansand track in Norway. The ...
    • Old colds can have given protection against Covid-19
    A person's immune system's memories of old colds caused by less harmful coronavirus relatives could be an explanation for why covid-19 affects ...
    Coronavirus: Four Brussels communes exceed alarm level
    Four of the 19 Brussels communes have passed the alarm level at which a general obligation to wear a face mask comes into operation, according to ...
    • Antwerp mayor holds intruder in garden at gunpoint
    Antwerp mayor Bart De Wever found a man in his garden on the night of Thursday to Friday, and held him at gunpoint until police arrive, it was ...
    Lebanon is investigating possible foreign involvement in Beirut explosion
    The investigation into the cause of the major explosion that rocked the Lebanese capital Beirut is also looking into possible foreign involvement, ...
    Culture houses transform into football clubs to be allowed to perform
    Many of Belgium’s cultural institutions have taken part in a comical campaign calling on them to transform into football clubs to escape the tough ...
    How Belgium became the (food) start-up nation
    In his entrepreneurship bestseller, From zero to one, Paypal founder Peter Thiel teaches that innovation is at the heart of any start-up’s ...
    Antwerp governor’s son was member of student club involved in fatal hazing
    Antwerp provincial governor Cathy Berx (CD&V) has spoken about the reaction of her son to the revelations about the student club Reuzegom, which ...
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    Ghanian opposition sidelined as Akufo-Addo chips away at democracy
    While the world waits with bated breath for the sure to be polarizing results of the 2020 U.S. presidential ...
    Adam Brafman
    Beware the Far-Right Bogeyman
    Emerging new parties and movements have as much chance to determine the future of Europe as the far right ...
    George Ajjan
    Europe’s casinos struggling to recover in the face of strong online competition
    Every business sector has felt the impact of this year’s unprecedented events to a certain extent. But those ...
    Rik Snuiverink
    Rise in Indian nationalism obstacle for regional peace
    The controversial social pioneer and founder of peace research, Johan Galtung, was one of the first to ...
    Raashid Wali Janjua
    The role of innovation in recovery from the pandemic: What the pandemic has taught us
    The COVID-19 pandemic has brought unprecedented changes to our societies, pushing us to reconsider and change ...
    Martin Kern
    We need standardised Covid-19 certificates to prevent airline bankruptcies and revive international tourism
    The need to limit the economic damage caused by COVID-19 while slowing the spread of the virus itself ...
    Sam Rainsy
    Negative interest rates are becoming the new normal
    The International Monetary Fund predicts that global public debt will reach its highest level in history with ...
    Piotr Arak
    Europe must quantify the lessons from its Covid-19 nightmare to quash a second wave
    After a stumbling initial response to the coronavirus pandemic, the EU now appears to be pulling out all the ...
    Maria Jensen
    Single broadband network could see Italy fall well behind its peers in terms of connectivity
    The Italian state lender Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP) is reportedly in preliminary talks to buy a stake in ...
    Robert Webber
    Kashmir: A wound that won’t heal
    The 16th century Mughal emperor Humayun once said of Kashmir that, “If paradise be on earth, it is this, ...
    Raashid Wali Janjua
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    Beware the Far-Right Bogeyman
    Emerging new parties and movements have as much chance to determine the future of Europe as the far right ...
    George Ajjan
    Negative interest rates are becoming the new normal
    The International Monetary Fund predicts that global public debt will reach its highest level in history with ...
    Piotr Arak
    Headscarf ban: Belgian Muslim women are resisting in order to free themselves
    On 4 June this year, the Belgian Constitutional Court authorised the banning of the Islamic headscarf in the ...
    Dr. Malika Hamidi 
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    How Belgium became the (food) start-up nation
    In his entrepreneurship bestseller, From zero to one, Paypal founder Peter Thiel teaches that innovation is at the heart of any start-up’s ...
    In search of the invisible enemy: Brussels under lockdown
    Belgium went into lockdown on 18 March 2020. For over two months, and in an unprecedented manner, public life came to a near standstill ...
    Rediscovering the forgotten and unknown Belgium
    It might get overcrowded this summer in many parts of Belgium, but Derek Blyth, author of Hidden Belgium, knows a few places that are off ...
    Public health measures alone can be enough to combat pandemics, study shows
    An epidemic can be contained and even beaten by behavioral measures without access to any vaccine. A new research paper shows how typhus ...
    Post-truth, lies and disinformation: what we need is more truthfulness, not truth
    It is possibly one of the most defining features of our era: the devaluation of truth in politics and the public debate. We live, so we ...
    Meet the Belgians paving the way for a cheese revolution
    Sandwiched between France and the Netherlands – with Switzerland not far either – Belgium has not been well known among its neighbours for ...
    Derek Blyth’s hidden secrets of Brussels
    Derek Blyth is the author of the bestselling The 500 Hidden Secrets of Brussels. He picks out ten of his favourite hidden secrets in every ...
    Structural racism, colonial bias and invisible artists: The struggles of a black art historian in Brussels
    Your train to Gare du Midi has probably ran right past the Wetsi Gallery, and you had no idea. The windows of the art gallery sit along ...
    Brussels’ blanket face mask requirement will also apply to cyclists
    The generalised requirement to wear a face mask in all public places in Brussels if infections surge past a weekly alarm threshold would also apply to ...
    Brussels’ blanket face mask requirement will also apply to cyclists
    The generalised requirement to wear a face mask in all public places in Brussels if infections surge past a weekly alarm threshold would also apply ...
    Belgium averages 568 new coronavirus infections per day
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    Coronavirus: where travellers and asymptomatic people can get tested in Brussels
    • Antwerp curfew will not be enforced during heatwave, governor says
    Belgium sees a ‘dramatic’ first week of sales for many retailers
    Belgium suspends Walloon arms exports licences in emergency ruling
    • European Commission calls on member states to avoid uncoordinated travel restrictions
    Belgian average rises to 550 new coronavirus infections per day
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    Europe’s casinos struggling to recover in the face of strong online competition
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    Rise in Indian nationalism obstacle for regional peace
    Raashid Wali Janjua
    The role of innovation in recovery from the pandemic: What the pandemic has taught us
    Martin Kern
    We need standardised Covid-19 certificates to prevent airline bankruptcies and revive international tourism
    Sam Rainsy
    Negative interest rates are becoming the new normal
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    Europe must quantify the lessons from its Covid-19 nightmare to quash a second wave
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    Old colds can have given protection against Covid-19
    Coronavirus: Four Brussels communes exceed alarm level
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    Brussels’ blanket face mask requirement will also apply to cyclists
    Divorce rate spikes as Brussels emerges from coronavirus lockdown
    UK and Japan push to wrap up post-Brexit trade agreement
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    Old colds can have given protection against Covid-19
    Coronavirus: Four Brussels communes exceed alarm level
    Belgium averages 568 new coronavirus infections per day
    EU Affairs
    European Commission calls on member states to avoid uncoordinated travel restrictions
    Brussels court throws out arrest warrant for Catalan politician
    UK and Japan push to wrap up post-Brexit trade agreement
    Business
    Brussels Airport welcomed 500,000 passengers in July
    Dredging project will remove deadly pollutant from Antwerp waters
    Mayors meet to consider action on mass infection in meat plant
    World
    Lebanon is investigating possible foreign involvement in Beirut explosion
    Swedish police in immigration suburb in need of police protection
    Belgium suspends Walloon arms exports licences in emergency ruling
    Politics
    Antwerp mayor holds intruder in garden at gunpoint
    Antwerp governor’s son was member of student club involved in fatal hazing
    Experts before Belgian corona commission call for better communication
    Art & Culture
    Culture houses transform into football clubs to be allowed to perform
    How Belgium became the (food) start-up nation
    Clip of ‘superhero’ Marc Van Ranst faces criticism from right-wing MPs
    Sports
    New European hour record set by Norwegian Sondre Moen
    Coronavirus: deliberately coughing can lead to a red card in football
    Gymnastics federation sets up ethics commission to investigate complaints
    Education
    Coronavirus: Dutch teenagers no longer have to social distance
    French community relaxes rules on school absences
    School groups against proposed rule on Dutch test to enter primary school
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