Reporting, analysis, vision & strategy bearing on or emanating from Belgium, HQ of EU.
An investigation has been launched after we discovered a suspicious military transfer from Britain to Israel. Two shipments of military components bound…
In times of systematic intimidation, complicit silences and institutional cowardice, the joint decision by the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, the University of Antwerp…
In what could become a landmark ruling, a Belgian judge recently ordered the Flemish government to halt the transit of goods that…
Belgian federal police arrested two Israeli soldiers at the Tomorrowland festival, following a complaint from the Hind Rajab Foundation and the Global…
In a landmark ruling, a Brussels Court today ordered the government of the Flemish region in Belgium to block a specific container…
If we want local food systems to thrive, every link in the chain must be nurtured: seeds must be saved, farmers must…
When I was first invited to Manifesta, the annual conference of the Workersā Party of Belgium (PTB), I had no idea what…
While the PTB’s electoral performance has been encouraging, the party refuses to rest on its laurels and play politics according to the…
European Parliament elections in Belgium are once again taking place in the shadow of national parliamentary and regional elections. One could, therefore,…
Belgian officials expressed outrage Thursday after Israeli forces reportedly bombed the office building of the Belgian Agency for Development Cooperation in the…
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