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    • Brussels Minister asks drivers to not exceed 30 km/hour
    Brussels’ Minister in charge of Road Safety, Elke Van den Brandt, asks motorists driving in Brussels not to exceed 30 km/hour. The rule ...
    Brussels Minister asks drivers to not exceed 30 km/hour
    Brussels’ Minister in charge of Road Safety, Elke Van den Brandt, asks motorists driving in Brussels not to exceed 30 km/hour. The rule already ...
    Police dismantle Flanders drug ring led by prison inmate
    The federal judicial police in East Flanders have dismantled a network suspected of producing and selling illegal drugs. Five searches were ...
    Greg Van Avermaet wins virtual Tour of Flanders from his living room
    Greg Van Avermaet won the virtual Tour of Flanders on Sunday, leading a field of 13 professional riders connected from their homes. The cyclist ...
    22.4 degrees in Brussels, new daily record for 5 April
    The new daily record recorded in Brussels for 5 April is now 22.4 degrees, meteorologist David Dehenauw confirms. The previous warmest 5 April was ...
    Coronavirus: ICUs nearing maximum admission capacity in Limburg province
    Intensive care units (ICUs) at Limburg’s two largest hospitals are nearing maximum intake capacity. At Jessa Hospital in Hasselt, 40 of the 41 ...
    Coronavirus: Testing capacity tops 10,000 per day in Belgium
    The rate at which Belgium is able to conduct novel Coronavirus tests each day has more than doubled in one week and now tops 10,000, the Office of ...
    Coronavirus: Greece extends lockdown to 27 April
    The Greek Government has extended confinement measures aimed at limiting the spread of the novel Coronavirus by three weeks, to 27 April. ...
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    Samia Fitouri
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    Pernille Weiss
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    Calum MacKichan
    Why Africa urgently needs an Ubuntu Plan
    Africa urgently needs a globally coordinated Ubuntu Plan in response to COVID-19, a fiscal stimulus that ...
    Dr Victor Oladokun
    The European Union is failing its largest ethnic minority in times of Coronavirus crisis
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    Marius Tudor
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    Ambassador Zhang Ming
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    Sam Rainsy
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    Has the world been unwillingly equalized?
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    Pernille Weiss
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    Calum MacKichan
    The European Union is failing its largest ethnic minority in times of Coronavirus crisis
    In many of the Eastern Members States of the European Union, Roma are made the scapegoat for the spread of ...
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    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 ...
    Insects as food: Belgium takes a bite
    The first EU permits for insects as a “novel food” should be issued in mid-2020. This will end the legal uncertainty about breeding insects ...
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    Summer sales likely to be postponed until August
    Colruyt closes online shopping for a few days after being swamped by orders
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    Dr Victor Oladokun
    The European Union is failing its largest ethnic minority in times of Coronavirus crisis
    Marius Tudor
    To fight the pandemic, put trust and cooperation before politics
    Ambassador Zhang Ming
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    Karola Klatt
    COVID-19: The nuclear bomb pandemic
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    Police dismantle Flanders drug ring led by prison inmate
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    Coronavirus: ICUs nearing maximum admission capacity in Limburg province
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    95% of Brussels construction sites at standstill
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    Spanish PM calls for Marshall Plan for post-virus Europe
    How online platforms fight coronavirus scams
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    Health
    Coronavirus: ICUs nearing maximum admission capacity in Limburg province
    Coronavirus: Testing capacity tops 10,000 per day in Belgium
    Coronavirus: Greece extends lockdown to 27 April
    Business
    Summer sales likely to be postponed until August
    Colruyt closes online shopping for a few days after being swamped by orders
    95% of Brussels construction sites at standstill
    World
    Coronavirus: Queen Elizabeth II to welcome Britons’ response
    The Brussels engineers racing to make ventilators out of car parts
    Oil prices rise after US intervention
    Politics
    Belgian airlines call for lifeline of more than half a billion euros
    Medical workers demand protection, not bonuses
    Government has €5 million for research into coronavirus vaccine
    Art & Culture
    Coronavirus: Belgian children go on a (teddy) bear hunt
    Coronavirus: Molenbeek’s MIMA museum crowdfunds €15,000
    Tomorrowland holds live stream festival
    Sports
    Greg Van Avermaet wins virtual Tour of Flanders from his living room
    Belgium’s football stars call for people to “Stay at Home” in viral video
    Belgium trials ‘virtual’ cycling race
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    French community relaxes rules on school absences
    School groups against proposed rule on Dutch test to enter primary school
    Belgian universities named in top 500 worldwide
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    Lockdown hits the poor hardest
    Coronavirus: Flemish schools get new orders
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    Has the world been unwillingly equalized?
    As the Covid-19 virus continues to sweep the globe, one cannot help but think of its seemingly equalizing ...
    Samia Fitouri
    We should take actions against Hungarian government
    It is with great concern that we are following the situation in Hungary and their latest Covid-19 measures. ...
    Pernille Weiss
    So, what happens to football in Belgium?
    In times like these, football is totally unimportant. Though, for some of us, as Italian manager Arrigo ...
    Calum MacKichan
    The European Union is failing its largest ethnic minority in times of Coronavirus crisis
    In many of the Eastern Members States of the European Union, Roma are made the scapegoat for the spread of ...
    Marius Tudor
    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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