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    • Brussels to implement Covid Safe Ticket ‘by 15 October at the latest’
    The expansion of the Covid Safe Ticket (CST) in the Brussels-Capital Region will be delayed until 15 October at the latest, confirmed ...
    Brussels to implement Covid Safe Ticket ‘by 15 October at the latest’
    The expansion of the Covid Safe Ticket (CST) in the Brussels-Capital Region will be delayed until 15 October at the latest, confirmed ...
    Job offer banning the wearing of headscarves suspended in Brussels
    On Monday, the Actiris unemployment office suspended a job offer from an elementary school in the Brussels municipality of Etterbeek that stated that ...
    Empty shelves: Carrefour Belgium confirms supply difficulties
    Carrefour Belgium is struggling to supply some of its shops with enough products following a strike at its logistics provider, a spokesperson for the ...
    Still no reform: A summer of broken promises for Uber drivers
    After the Belgian capital banned Uber drivers from using their smartphones back in March, turning a cold war between the city’s leadership and the ...
    Cycling World Championships: A Flemish thriller but Belgium disappointed
    To end a week-long schedule of racing, cycling fans were treated to spectacular performances over the weekend as the action moved to Flanders for the ...
    • FAQ: The Belgian Covid Safe Ticket
    Belgium will lift the federal general face mask obligation and expand the use of the Covid Safe Ticket (CST), announced Prime Minister Alexander De Croo during ...
    FAQ: The Belgian Covid Safe Ticket
    Belgium will lift the federal general face mask obligation and expand the use of the Covid Safe Ticket (CST), announced Prime Minister Alexander De ...
    Children ‘disproportionately affected’ by climate change
    Research led by a Brussels university shows that children born today will be disproportionately affected by climate change. The international ...
    Government looks to fix ‘increased tension’ between youth and police
    A working group has been tasked with improving the way police officers in Belgium deal with children and young people during interventions in ...
    Belgian minister condemns the spread of ‘American wokeness’
    Belgium’s Zuhal Demir, the Flemish Minister of Justice, Environment, Energy and Tourism, issued a statement on Monday condemning the spread of ...
    Dispute over license plates derails EU-facilitated dialogue between Kosovo and Serbia
    European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen started today her trip to the Western Balkans countries, ahead of the EU-Western Balkans Summit on ...
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    Barriers to cross-border services in the EU are getting worse
    The number of barriers for companies providing cross-border services in the EU is growing. One year after the ...
    Marek Benio, PhD
    Open letter to Brussels’ bicycle riders everywhere
    Dear Brussels-based bicycle users, I’d like to start by stressing that this is not a tirade against ...
    Ana Carolina Pedrosa Ferreira
    Is citizen-led democracy here to stay?
    Tourists are flying into space and life on Mars seems a less distant possibility. Meanwhile Europeans are ...
    Roger Casale
    A tale of two unions
    Much has been written about the UK’s departure from the European Union. Less has been written about the fact ...
    Mark Corner
    Von der Leyen goes soul-searching as she seeks a global role for the EU
    European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen went soul-searching in her second State of the Union ...
    Tatu Liimatainen
    Time for EU to restore rivers to build resilience against floods
    A few weeks ago, I did not make it to bed. Over two metres of water were cascading down the streets of my ...
    Andreas Baumüller
    The importance of a stable financial sector in a post-pandemic world
    Uncertainty is one of the few things in life that are very certain. The COVID-pandemic is an example thereof ...
    Bert Van Roosebeke
    Coronalert turns one year old: what went wrong?
    At the end of September 2020 Coronalert, the Belgian COVID-19 contact-tracing app was launched. One year ...
    Giulia Zampedri
    What have travel bans taught us about the world?
    There is a great irony as the world watches Afghans scrambling atop barbed wires or clinging over plane ...
    Rayyan Dabbous
    Why do we grow trees in Siberia to burn them in Belgium?
    Zuhal Demir, the Flemish Minister of Energy and the Environment, recently said something that was received ...
    Ramiro Austin
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    Open letter to Brussels’ bicycle riders everywhere
    Dear Brussels-based bicycle users, I’d like to start by stressing that this is not a tirade against ...
    Ana Carolina Pedrosa Ferreira
    Is citizen-led democracy here to stay?
    Tourists are flying into space and life on Mars seems a less distant possibility. Meanwhile Europeans are ...
    Roger Casale
    A tale of two unions
    Much has been written about the UK’s departure from the European Union. Less has been written about the fact ...
    Mark Corner
    Von der Leyen goes soul-searching as she seeks a global role for the EU
    European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen went soul-searching in her second State of the Union ...
    Tatu Liimatainen
    Time for EU to restore rivers to build resilience against floods
    A few weeks ago, I did not make it to bed. Over two metres of water were cascading down the streets of my ...
    Andreas Baumüller
    Coronalert turns one year old: what went wrong?
    At the end of September 2020 Coronalert, the Belgian COVID-19 contact-tracing app was launched. One year ...
    Giulia Zampedri
    What have travel bans taught us about the world?
    There is a great irony as the world watches Afghans scrambling atop barbed wires or clinging over plane ...
    Rayyan Dabbous
    Why do we grow trees in Siberia to burn them in Belgium?
    Zuhal Demir, the Flemish Minister of Energy and the Environment, recently said something that was received ...
    Ramiro Austin
    Democracy’s weakness in the face of Covid-19
    The current situation in advanced democracies in the world is absurd. While less than 2% of the population in ...
    David Abuchar Luna
    The EU’s kid-glove Cuban treatment exposes its Latin American dictator double standards
    What will it take for some European countries and EU foreign service mavens to finally take off the ...
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    Citizens speak out at the Conference on the Future of Europe
    The first citizen-led panel on the future of Europe took place last weekend at the European Parliament in Strasbourg. 200 ordinary citizens ...
    Tackling sexual harassment in Belgium is ‘joint responsibility’, police says
    More than nine in ten girls and women have experienced sexual harassment in public spaces in Belgium, according to a recent study, but as ...
    Just 6% of cases reported: Sexual harassment ‘normalised’ in Belgium
    Nine in ten women and girls in several of Belgium’s biggest cities have experienced sexual harassment in public spaces. But these incidents ...
    Bait bikes won’t work if theft isn’t prosecuted, says cyclist group
    Brussels has a lot of cycling initiatives on the mobility agenda, including tripling the use of bicycles by the city's residents by 2030, ...
    ‘Nobody lives there’: Airbnb investors taking up scarce Brussels real estate
    While Airbnb claims that it enables people to rent their room or house sporadically to tourists, affording travellers a more authentic ...
    Brussels’ best architecture award: The nominees
    The nominees for the first Brussels architectural awards have been decided, with landmarks from Place Rogier to the summer bars of the ...
    Excavation of destroyed synagogue in Lithuania exposes new findings
    In Vilnius, capital of Lithuania, an excavation of its former Great Synagogue has fully exposed the Torah ark and the podium that was ...
    Horses to Heizel: Brussels’ trams through the ages
    Trams in Brussels have come a long way from the first horse-drawn services that started carrying passengers from the Porte de Namur to the ...
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    Uber to suspend its app in protest over lack of taxi reform
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    Buying first property will be cheaper in Flanders, but second more expensive
    Belgian police seize 500kg of cocaine on ship in Ghent port
    Former mansion of Émile Bockstael will be protected as Brussels heritage
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    Marek Benio, PhD
    Open letter to Brussels’ bicycle riders everywhere
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    A tale of two unions
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    Von der Leyen goes soul-searching as she seeks a global role for the EU
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    Cycling World Championships: A Flemish thriller but Belgium disappointed
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    Vaccination appointments increase five-fold in Wallonia following introduction of Covid Safe Tickets
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    Job offer banning the wearing of headscarves suspended in Brussels
    Still no reform: A summer of broken promises for Uber drivers
    Brussels to implement Covid Safe Ticket ‘by 15 October at the latest’
    EU Affairs
    Dispute over license plates derails EU-facilitated dialogue between Kosovo and Serbia
    UK petrol shortages blamed on ‘panic buying’
    Citizens speak out at the Conference on the Future of Europe
    Business
    Empty shelves: Carrefour Belgium confirms supply difficulties
    Still no reform: A summer of broken promises for Uber drivers
    Uber to suspend its app in protest over lack of taxi reform
    World
    Children ‘disproportionately affected’ by climate change
    UK petrol shortages blamed on ‘panic buying’
    Dutch police arrest gang ‘preparing terrorist attack’
    Politics
    Belgian minister condemns the spread of ‘American wokeness’
    What is needed is totally free public transport, says Belgian socialist leader
    Flemish government agrees 2022 budget
    Art & Culture
    Belgium has 4th most Michelin-starred restaurants per person in the world
    Former mansion of Émile Bockstael will be protected as Brussels heritage
    New World War II monument inaugurated near Antwerp
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    Cycling World Championships: A Flemish thriller but Belgium disappointed
    Belgium wins 18 medals at European Life Saving Championships
    Cycling World Championships: Belgium just misses time trial top spot
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    Temporary European school opens on Brussels’ former NATO site
    Two Belgian universities included in global academic ranking
    International school in public park in Brussels threatened by eviction during COVID-19
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