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A Flemish MEP has warned the EU “does not want free speech” after a European Commission official threatened Elon Musk over his takeover of Twitter.

Openly gay Belgian MP Gilles Verstraeten has suggested that he is fearful of holding hands with another man in the no-go Brussels suburb of Molenbeek, claiming integration of migrants has been poorly managed. Verstraeten, a member of the centre-right New Flemish

The number of violent incidents in Belgian asylum reception centres has doubled since 2017, with half of the total incidents involving physical or verbal assaults on asylum centre workers or other asylum seekers.

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) – Serbia is seeking explanations from NATO on why its jets have allegedly shadowed Serbian passenger planes flying back from Russia.

At least six people have been killed after a car was rammed into a large crowd of festival-goers in Belgium on Sunday morning.

Despite tough talk over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the European Union is squabbling internally over whether to include luxury goods and diamonds in sanctions, while there is reluctance on all sides to restrict energy imports.

Govt advisors in Brussels suggested a statue of controversial Belgian King Leopold II should be melted down and turned into a memorial.

Brussels — the heartland of the administrative elements of the European Union — has banned a Canada-style Freedom Convoy from entering the city this weekend.

Clubs in Belgium have announced that they will be finally opening their doors again to customers on February 18, whether the country’s government permits them to do so or not.

A socialist politician has criticised the destruction of traditional stores and the ’19th-century’ working conditions of Amazon.

Belgian police detained 13 people from a radical Islamic Salafist-linked group during raids Tuesday across the port city of Antwerp.

Charlotte Bellis, a 35-year-old pregnant New Zealand journalist abandoned in Afghanistan by her own left-wing government due to its coronavirus quarantine rules, said on Saturday she had no alternative but to ask the Taliban for help.

A pregnant journalist who was forced to rely on the Taliban’s charity in Afghanistan has finally been allowed to return home to New Zealand.

An attempt to deport Islamic imam Abdallah Ouahbour, who has been linked to the 2003 Madrid terror attack, was rejected by a Belgian court.

Police in Brussels clashed with protestors during a 50,000 strong demonstration against coronavirus restrictions and mandatory vaccinations.

A Belgian court has jailed the leader of a trafficking operation responsible for the death of at least 15 migrants who were found dead in the back of a lorry on an English industrial estate.

Belgium has stripped the residency permit of the chief imam of the country’s largest mosque Mohamed Toujgani over national security concerns. 

Thousands of people took to the streets of Brussels on Sunday to protest lockdown rules, described by one MEP as ‘draconian and irrational’

Two people were stabbed amid a mass brawl in the Belgian city of Genk on Christmas day that saw Afghans and Turks clash. 

Two Belgian Muslim organisations have appealed to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) to challenge a ban on ritual slaughter.

According to Statbel just half of the babies born in the country in 2020 were born to women of Belgian origin and Belgian nationality. 

The Belgian Federal Prosecutor’s Office has demanded a sentence of at least 15 years for alleged people-trafficker Vo Van Hong, who is accused of being connected to the deaths of 39 people in a truck in southern England in 2019.

Sammy Mahdi, Belgium’s Secretary of State for Asylum and Migration, has stated that up to 70 per cent of “child” migrants submitted for age testing by the government turn out to be adults.

Some 50 illegal immigrants who have occupied a church in Brussels, Belgium, demanding residency have complained that now with winter approaching, the church is too cold for them. 

BRUSSELS (AP) – The Belgian government has vowed to reinforce measures to contain the coronavirus even more with fresh measures to be decided Friday, possibly including more school closures and further reducing opening times of bars and restaurants.

The governments of the Netherlands and Nigeria revealed between Tuesday and Wednesday that they had found evidence of people in their countries testing positive for the Omicron variant of the Chinese coronavirus prior to scientists in South Africa confirming its existence.

The British government is deporting a convicted people-trafficker from Albania for the third time in under two years, highlighting how ineffective its border control regime is even on those rare occasions when it actually removes people from the country.

Ten of thousands of people demonstrated through Brussels on Sunday to protest lockdown restrictions imposed by the Belgian government.

A 57-year-old woman was attacked and seriously injured aboard a bus in Belgium after being labelled a racist during an argument with other passengers.

An illegal migrant faces trial in Belgium for fatally stabbing a 22-year-old woman last year, although he claims the incident was accidental.

The storm that started by hitting Brittany´s Atlantic Coast afternoon blew eastward through the night, felling trees and collapsing roofs.

A Belgian media investigation has revealed that the majority of food delivery drivers working in the EU capital are illegal immigrants using “fake” accounts.

The government of Belgium has announced that it will contribute money for women in Poland to get abortions in other EU member states.

Two Algerian men have been convicted and sentenced in connection to the 2009 murder and robbery of a gay Belgian man after they had had sex with him.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced that Britain’s own airlift will continue unchanged despite Thursday afternoon’s bombing. 

A Belgian poet employed by the city of Bruges has come under fire after writing a letter condemning the demonisation of paedophiles and said people need to “accept paedophiles”.