Owen reported that the Free Palestine bikers from the Netherlands, France, and Belgium had arrived at the Dam in Amsterdam. According to him, there were hundreds of people along the route. https://t.co/hZhV6RQ2Fh #FreePalestine #Amsterdam #Bikers (translated)
The decline in fertility in Belgium, where in 2025 the average number of children per woman was 1.4, indicates a growing unrealizability of parenthood due to economic and social factors, despite the increased acceptance of childlessness. #Fécondité #Parenté #PolitiquePublique (translated)
Due to a veto from the MR, the Belgian government has been unable to find a solution for the evacuation of thirteen students and researchers from Gaza, putting their chances of a future in Belgium seriously at risk, regrets Foreign Minister Maxime Prévot. #Gaza #Belgique #Politique (translated)
The author named Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, the IRGC, Samidoun, and other organizations that they claimed glorified deadly Islamic jihad terror. The author also stated that Belgium alone counted a hundred Salafist organizations. The author sarcastically noted that Israel was nonetheless designated as the instigator of polarization and wrote that readers of NRC no longer needed to read De Speld. #België #Jihad #Polarisatie #BE #IL (translated)
The author warned that Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood could thrive in Belgium and called it life-threatening. This happened according to the author ten years after the deadly jihadist attacks in Brussels and three years after the attacks on October 7 in Israel. The author asked the minister if the government realized it was already "five minutes past twelve" and wrote that the situation had already been serious enough. https://t.co/QFOdefeC4M #veiligheid #terrorisme #vrijheid #BE #IL (translated)
The expression Bismillah it's the darkness, which was seen on various posters during recent demonstrations in Belgium and France, originated from an inappropriate attempt by French police officers to blend in with young people, resulting in a ridiculous viral meme on social media. #Bismillah #Manifestations #Belgique (translated)
On Monday, October 12, due to a strike organized by the CGSP against the government's budgetary proposals, seven out of ten trains in Belgium will operate. #Grève #SNCB #Mobilité (translated)
The number of Belgians who own at least ten properties has grown almost ten times faster in the past four years than the number of Belgians with one property, indicating an increasing inequality in Belgium. #Inégalités #Immobilier #Belgique (translated)
The federal government of Belgium will resume its budget discussions on Saturday at 3 p.m. in a closed committee, amid increasing financial concerns and the need to show a sense of responsibility. #BudgetFédéral #PolitiqueBelge #BartDeWever (translated)
The author wrote that children with a migration background, whom he referred to as disadvantaged, demonstrated for better school conditions in Belgium and devastated city centers while destroying and looting shops. He mentioned Liège as an example. He then began to mention a sushi shop but stopped abruptly mid-sentence. #Schülerproteste #Bildung #Migration #BE (translated)
Rik Torfs wrote that a tax on the wealthy could lead them to no longer live in Belgium or Europe. According to him, this would threaten to make people powerless serfs of very rich individuals in other continents. He asked readers to share their opinions on an article. https://t.co/5k5SaycPbh #België #belasting #ongelijkheid (translated)
The Dutch drug lord Jos Leijdekkers, nicknamed Bolle Jos, is a convicted criminal of 35 years who lives in Sierra Leone and has been sentenced to 103 years in prison in the Netherlands and Belgium, while he is suspected of building a cocaine empire connecting Latin America with the ports of Antwerp and Rotterdam. #Cocaïne #TraficDrogue #SierraLeone (translated)
I strongly reject the new American sanctions against the court. Prévot writes that Belgium will advocate for the so-called EU Blocking Statute to be used, an anti-boycott regulation that allows the sanctions to be circumvented. #Trump #WitteHuis #Perschef (translated)
Maurits Vande Reyde wrote that the plan was, in his opinion, excessive even by Flemish political standards. He stated that parties that would continue with it would be held politically accountable sooner or later, and he thought that was justified. #VlaamsePolitiek #Politiek #België (translated)
I strongly reject the new American sanctions against the court. Prévot writes that Belgium will advocate for the so-called EU Blocking Statute to be employed, an anti-boycott regulation that allows the sanctions to be circumvented. #Trump #perschef #InternationaalStrafhof (translated)
Belgium has joined a European military project focused on the development of an automated system for air refueling of unmanned military drones. #Belgique #drones #interopérabilité (translated)
During a protest demonstration against planned budget reforms by the Belgian government, there were riots in Brussels after hundreds of masked youths sought confrontation with the police, while between 30,000 and 50,000 people demonstrated peacefully. #Belgien #Protest #Ausschreitungen (translated)
The finance ministers of the EU reached an agreement on Friday to strengthen the powers of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), which is a crucial step in the strategy for better use of Europeans' savings, although Belgium abstained from the vote. #ESMA #MarchésFinanciers #UnionEuropéenne (translated)
Five men have been arrested in connection with the violent attack on the Congolese journalist Claude Pero Luwara in Tirlemont, who has been targeted three times in Belgium due to his criticism of President Félix Tshisekedi's regime. #journalisme #Belgique #agression (translated)
