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    • Holiday disruption on Friday as Brussels Airport police plan work-to-rule
    Holidaymakers planning to take off for sunnier climes on Friday are warned that the Brussels Airport police have announced they will be ...
    Holiday disruption on Friday as Brussels Airport police plan work-to-rule
    Holidaymakers planning to take off for sunnier climes on Friday are warned that the Brussels Airport police have announced they will be carrying out ...
    Suspect in train stabbing incident arrested in France
    The man accused of stabbing the 30-year-old athlete Fanny Appes on board a train at Linkebeek station a week ago has been arrested by police in ...
    ZOO Planckendael asks public to choose name for bonobo baby
    As it is now 100% certain that the new bonobo baby born in December in ZOO Planckendael is a girl, the zoo has asked the public to help pick a name. ...
    Man wrongfully imprisoned in Brussels due to spelling mistake
    A Brussels resident was mistakenly imprisoned for over two weeks due to a spelling mistake and faulty evidence which led authorities to mistake him ...
    Coronavirus: Still chance of preventing global crisis
    The World Health Organisation (WHO) reported on Wednesday that the number of confirmed cases globally were 75 204, thereof 74 280 in China. The ...
    Damage by storms Ciara and Dennis estimated at over €200 million
    The damage caused by storms Ciara and Dennis in Belgium is estimated at over €200 million, based on an extrapolation of existing data by AG ...
    Far-right leader scraps ‘overly critical’ foreword from his upcoming book
    A foreword commissioned for the new book of Vlaams Belang (VB) leader, Tom Van Grieken, will be scrapped from the final version of the book after ...
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    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 ...
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    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 ...
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    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 ...
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    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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    The European Commission has recently published what is known as the 2019 R&D (research and development) ...
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    There’s something rotten about the state of our educational system. Over the past year, several surveys and ...
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    Global trade growth has been in a slowdown for a decade. Contributing to the trend is a recent rise in ...
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    EU’s ‘privileged trade scheme’ suspension with Cambodia is a blessing in disguise
    I would like to convey to the European Union the following message: There are responsible and foresighted ...
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    There’s something rotten about the state of our educational system. Over the past year, several surveys and ...
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    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
    I would like to convey to the European Union the following message: There are responsible and foresighted ...
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    On February 21, 2020, the so-called parliamentary elections will be held in Iran for the 290 seats of the ...
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