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    • Brussels plans Covid-safe zones to return to normal life
    Brussels is planning the creation of a number of Covid-safe zones, in an attempt to develop protocols that would allow the city to return ...
    Brussels plans Covid-safe zones to return to normal life
    Brussels is planning the creation of a number of Covid-safe zones, in an attempt to develop protocols that would allow the city to return to a more ...
    Sex workers issue appeal for help
    About 20 sex workers demonstrated outside the Gare du Nord train station in Brussels on Sunday to press for a support plan adapted to their situation ...
    Switzerland votes to ban full veil
    Full face veils are now prohibited in Switzerland, following a vote on Sunday in which a majority of electors opted for a ban on any form of complete ...
    Five sectors see government measures lifted and open for business from Monday
    The consultative committee decided on Friday that more professional services can take up activities again from Monday 8 March. Five sectors will ...
    Rudi Vervoort to discuss Brussels curfew with the region’s mayors
    Brussels region Prime Minister Rudi Vervoort said on Sunday that he would meet with the region’s mayors this week to discuss the measures taken to ...
    Nigel Farage announces his retirement from active party politics
    Nigel Farage, emblematic figure of the Brexit movement, has announced that he is withdrawing from active politics. “I achieved what I had planned ...
    Curfew is a ‘serious infringement of our liberty’ says Jambon
    In its last meeting on Friday, the Consultative Committee announced a number of minor relaxations of the measures taken to combat the spread of ...
    New antiviral treatment against coronavirus shows promising results
    The pharmaceutical giant Merck and a U.S. lab have announced that an oral medication they have been developing against coronavirus reduced patients' ...
    ‘We’re in a transition phase’: Task Force responds to Belgium’s slow vaccine slow rollout
    The gap between the number of vaccines against coronavirus delivered to Belgium and actual vaccinations has increased in recent weeks, according to ...
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    The EU can put trust back into online commerce
    A new report says Covid vaccine scammers are targeting social media users, which is a frustrating but ...
    Mark Schultz
    The quest for COVID-19 immunotherapies in the EU
    The EU Commission is committed to ensure rapid access of European citizens to the best available ...
    Michel Goldman
    Europeans must keep building a more inclusive democracy
    How much do Europeans really care about democracy? Since the start of the year, we have seen a failed ...
    Roger Casale
    There is no fundamental ethical objection to vaccine passports
    Should we all be required to produce a ‘vaccine passport’ — proving that we have been vaccinated against ...
    Thomas Douglas
    ­Time for an integrated approach to support Europe’s hospitality sector
    Covid-19 continues to inflict enormous pain on Europe and the world. No sector has been unaffected by the ...
    Ulrich Adam
    Ethiopia on path of reforms amidst challenges
    Ethiopia has shifted its focus towards its main agenda of continuing its reform process, while at the same ...
    Ambassador Hirut Zemene
    Are you suffering from SBS?
    Like most people I know, I suffer from shifting baseline syndrome. I know this because my mother had to ...
    Ramiro Austin
    Time for Israel to speed up vaccine deliveries to the West Bank and Gaza
    No one is safe and protected against the corona virus unless everyone is safe and protected, is the mantra ...
    Mose Apelblat
    Polish digital ad tax will paralyse consumer choice
    Earlier this month, Polish government unveiled its plans to tax digital advertising. It is argued that the ...
    Maria Chaplia
    Telegram – a thorny path to a golden mine?
    While leading messaging service WhatsApp has recently suffered a one-two punch of a controversial change in ...
    Chris Hall
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    There is no fundamental ethical objection to vaccine passports
    Should we all be required to produce a ‘vaccine passport’ — proving that we have been vaccinated against ...
    Thomas Douglas
    ­Time for an integrated approach to support Europe’s hospitality sector
    Covid-19 continues to inflict enormous pain on Europe and the world. No sector has been unaffected by the ...
    Ulrich Adam
    The American Divorce
    The rights bestowed upon the American people by the Declaration of Independence are indeed natural rights, ...
    Thomas Jasper
    EU needs its own Union army for its diplomacy to work
    The European Union (EU) wants peace, security, freedom, sustainable prosperity, solidarity, social justice ...
    Andreas V Georgiou
    Deadly student hazing: Where is the justice for Sanda?
    The events that led up to the tragic death of Sanda Dia in December 2018 are all too well known for most in ...
    Daniel Farrell-Flynn
    It’s time for Greece to follow Israel’s example and recognize Kosovo
    This week marks the 13th anniversary of Kosovo’s declaration of independence from Serbia. The declaration ...
    Akri Çipa
    The Who’s Roger Daltrey ‘gets fooled again”
    The Who's Roger Daltrey "gets fooled again'' as Brexit fallout leaves British performing arts industry fuming ...
    Joe Kirwin
    Should Covid be a test of communal fidelity and hierarchal loyalty?
    On Sunday the 31st of January, Brussels police and the City of Brussels refused to grant protesters any ...
    Thomas Jasper
    Why Israel should be considered to join NATO
    There are several questions and challenges about the role of NATO since the end of the Cold War. Some ...
    Alexandre Krauss & Nuno Wahnon
    A trial of the innocent
    In light of BLM’s 2021 Nobel Peace Prize nomination at the hand of Norwegian MP Petter Eide, it would appear ...
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    Searching for silence in Belgium
    “The most beautiful sound in the world is silence,” wrote the turn-of-the-century English novelist Robert Hichens. Unfortunately, ...
    ‘There is no vaccine against the climate crisis’: EU adopts new strategy on climate change
    The European Commission adopted on Wednesday a new EU strategy on adaptation to climate change, setting out the pathway to prepare for the ...
    New Brussels modern art museum gets the go-ahead
    Kanal, the planned new museum of modern and contemporary art in Brussels, has been given the green light to go ahead, Brussels secretary of ...
    The European Green Deal: Is it possible to protect the climate and free trade? A steelmaker’s perspective
    The European Green Deal aims to make Europe climate neutral by 2050 through a set of policy objectives, in particular in the energy and ...
    Will we pick which vaccine we take?
    Following the news that the first UK patients have received the coronavirus vaccine, people in Belgium – and Europe – are starting to ...
    Belgium worries about expats returning after Christmas
    The likelihood of impending international travel severely impacting Belgium's improving coronavirus numbers is giving experts cause for ...
    ‘To be forced to lock down the economy once may be regarded as a misfortune; to do so twice looks like carelessness’
    There is finally light at the end of the Covid tunnel. Two promising vaccines – one developed by Turkish immigrants to Germany, the other ...
    In the wake of the pandemic, a social crisis brews in Brussels
    In the spring, as the coronavirus pandemic reached Belgium and health care workers triaged and treated the throngs of patients sickened by ...
    Cheat Sheet: Belgium’s timeline for relaxing coronavirus measures
    Belgium is officially relaxing some coronavirus fighting measures and giving perspective to several sectors, Prime Minister Alexander De Croo announced during ...
    Cheat Sheet: Belgium’s timeline for relaxing coronavirus measures
    Belgium is officially relaxing some coronavirus fighting measures and giving perspective to several sectors, Prime Minister Alexander De Croo ...
    The Dalai Lama gets vaccinated against Covid-19, urges others to do the same
    Covid-19: increase in hospital numbers slows dramatically
    Brussels brewery Brasserie de la Senne goes fully organic
    Wallonia offers free transport to vaccination centres
    Conference on the Future of Europe on its way
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    Iran calls on Europe to avoid threats or pressure
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    Relaxed measures on gatherings welcomed
    Hospitality industry files complaint against performing rights charges
    ‘Waiting as long as possible’ to decide on summer festivals, says Jambon
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    Czech man swims more than 80 metres under ice to enter Guinness World Records
    Belgium remains in first place on FIFA world ranking
    Basic-Fit borrows 150 million euros to avoid bankruptcy
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    Do universities have a future after the coronavirus crisis?
    ‘1 in 5 still believe you can catch the virus by kissing an HIV-positive person on the mouth’
    MEPs call for digital gap in education to be closed
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    There is no fundamental ethical objection to vaccine passports
    Should we all be required to produce a ‘vaccine passport’ — proving that we have been vaccinated against ...
    Thomas Douglas
    ­Time for an integrated approach to support Europe’s hospitality sector
    Covid-19 continues to inflict enormous pain on Europe and the world. No sector has been unaffected by the ...
    Ulrich Adam
    The American Divorce
    The rights bestowed upon the American people by the Declaration of Independence are indeed natural rights, ...
    Thomas Jasper
    EU needs its own Union army for its diplomacy to work
    The European Union (EU) wants peace, security, freedom, sustainable prosperity, solidarity, social justice ...
    Andreas V Georgiou
    Deadly student hazing: Where is the justice for Sanda?
    The events that led up to the tragic death of Sanda Dia in December 2018 are all too well known for most in ...
    Daniel Farrell-Flynn
    It’s time for Greece to follow Israel’s example and recognize Kosovo
    This week marks the 13th anniversary of Kosovo’s declaration of independence from Serbia. The declaration ...
    Akri Çipa
    The Who’s Roger Daltrey ‘gets fooled again”
    The Who's Roger Daltrey "gets fooled again'' as Brexit fallout leaves British performing arts industry fuming ...
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    On Sunday the 31st of January, Brussels police and the City of Brussels refused to grant protesters any ...
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    There are several questions and challenges about the role of NATO since the end of the Cold War. Some ...
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