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Saturday, 30 May, 2020

Coronavirus: Austria to ease face mask measures

Face masks will no longer be compulsory in schools, businesses and tourist areas in Austria from 15 June, the country’s government indicated on ...

Coronavirus: antibody tests for everyone ‘soon’ available via GPs

There is no concrete timing yet, but everyone will "soon" be able to get tested for antibodies against the new coronavirus (Covid-19) with their GP, ...

US will leave World Health Organisation, Trump announces

Donald Trump, the President of the United States, announced that the U.S. will leave the World Health Organisation (WHO) during a press conference on ...

Cross-border family visits allowed from today

People in Belgium will be allowed to make visits to family members living in neighbouring countries from today, federal home affairs minister Pieter ...

Opinion

Tobacco traceability in the EU: is big tobacco in the driver’s seat?

In the runup to World No Tobacco Day (May 31st), the World Health Organization published three groundbreaking ...

Tom Davis

Covid-19: Nine reflections on society and politics

For me who worked for years in the Turkish parliament, as well as journalist, blogger and as a university ...

Mine Yildiz

The EU should urgently start a probe into violations of human rights in the Indian occupied Kashmir

The restrictions on movements in the wake of COVID-19 have crippled social life across the world. People have ...

Andy Vermaut

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

Top Opinions

Covid-19: Nine reflections on society and politics

For me who worked for years in the Turkish parliament, as well as journalist, blogger and as a university ...

Mine Yildiz

The EU should urgently start a probe into violations of human rights in the Indian occupied Kashmir

The restrictions on movements in the wake of COVID-19 have crippled social life across the world. People have ...

Andy Vermaut

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

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

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

Why I don’t want to talk about Boris Johnson

My colleague purses her lips, as if beginning to formulate a question, but then hesitates. She then pauses, ...

Sam Jenkinson

Historical postal operators are already too late in the game

Belgium national post Bpost has recently announced that it will get rid of around 30 percent (or 4,000) of ...

Tim Potocnik

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

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Top Opinions

Covid-19: Nine reflections on society and politics

For me who worked for years in the Turkish parliament, as well as journalist, blogger and as a university ...

Mine Yildiz

The EU should urgently start a probe into violations of human rights in the Indian occupied Kashmir

The restrictions on movements in the wake of COVID-19 have crippled social life across the world. People have ...

Andy Vermaut

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

Historical postal operators are already too late in the game

Belgium national post Bpost has recently announced that it will get rid of around 30 percent (or 4,000) of ...

Tim Potocnik

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

Become an opinion maker

Magazine

Belgium on track for sunniest spring in recorded history

Belgium is on track to wrap up its warmest spring season in recorded history, with the country's typically unstable weather this year ...

How all pupils will return to school in Belgium

The different ministers responsible for education in Belgium, in consultation with the Group of Experts for the Exit Strategy (GEES), ...

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 ...

Prime Minister Wilmès announces additional support measures

The third part of the Federal Plan for Social and Economic Protection is in preparation, Prime Minister Sophie Wilmès announced on Friday. "The aim of this ...

Prime Minister Wilmès announces additional support measures

The third part of the Federal Plan for Social and Economic Protection is in preparation, Prime Minister Sophie Wilmès announced on Friday. "The ...

Financial watchdogs uncover a minimal proportion of illegal money

Greece opens up for flights to Athens and Thessaloniki

Coronavirus: antibody tests now available for all Belgians

How going to a cafe or restaurant will work