The venom was in the tail of the protest march against the Marrakesh Treaty in Brussels yesterday. The demonstration itself went smoothly, but afterwards, when all the speakers put their word...
Around 5500 people gathered in the center of Brussels on Sunday to participate in the 'March against Marrakesh'. A thousand demonstrators showed up for the counter-demonstration. In the afternoon...
British Prime Minister Theresa May had come to Brussels to demand guarantees that an emergency solution for the Irish border would only be temporary.
Right-wing organizations and youth associations in Belgium are allowed to hold their 'March against Marrakesh' on Sunday.
The 28 EU leaders at their summit in Brussels held a minute's silence for the victims of the shooting at the Christmas market in Strasbourg on Tuesday. 'Europe thinks of the victims of...
At their summit in Brussels, the Heads of Government of the EU countries will give a helping hand to Theresa May on Thursday, if at least they are Prime Minister. After a discussion of the 'serious situation'...
The Brussels police deploy extra agents at the Christmas market in the city center. The mayor and police decided on this after the shooting in Strasbourg in France...
A 33-year-old Belgian from Zeebrugge has beaten his pregnant girlfriend to death and risks 10 years in prison. Although she had bruises and the apartment was full of blood spatter, he crept back into bed after the act, without alarm.
The United Kingdom should not count on the fact that there is still something to be gained from the Brexit negotiations. That message went straight out in Brussels and in the EU capitals, after Prime Minister May's decision to postpone a crucial vote in parliament.
British Prime Minister Theresa May wants to postpone the vote in the House of Commons on the Brexit deal. According to the Sunday Times, May will soon travel to Brussels to bring better conditions for the United Kingdom out of the fire.
The Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan thinks that the police in Paris and Brussels, for example, have been guilty of 'excessive violence' against the demonstrators in yellow vests. He said that the chaos rules in Europe, especially in Paris.
In the center of Brussels protesters have been hit with the riot police.
The euro area finance ministers (Eurogroup) support the European Commission in its approach to Italy. This is stated in a statement that the Eurogroup will release on Monday, insiders say. Ministers call on the Italian government to take the necessary steps to bring its draft budget for 2019 in line with the European rules, otherwise a criminal procedure is justified.
A protest march for a better climate policy has mobilized about 65,000 people in Brussels. The attendance figure is an estimate of the Belgian police. The procession moved from the North Station in the capital to the Cinquantenaire, where speeches and performances were held.
While Kiev closed the border yesterday for all Russian men between sixteen and sixty years old, the Kremlin showed that the Russians can not be fooled with the announcement that as from next year foreign warships that want to pass through the Arctic Ocean can only do so. with previous green light from Moscow.
In Brussels, about a hundred activists protest against the excise and taxes of the government. Because of the spontaneous demonstration, three tunnels are closed towards the center of the city.
Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko wants NATO countries to send ships to the Sea of Azov to 'assist Ukraine and provide security.' He said this to the German Bild.
The British Parliament will vote on the brexit deal of Prime Minister Theresa May on Tuesday 11 December. This is evident from the timetable for the crucial debate on the agreement with Brussels that was put on Twitter by a Business Insider reporter on Monday.
The Italian government is finally giving concrete signals that it adheres to the Brussels requirement for further reduction of the Italian budget deficit. The usually eagerly provocative deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini, also Minister of the Interior and Lega leader, announced for the first time that this requirement is negotiable.
Government officials from Germany, Russia, France and Ukraine come together in Berlin on Monday to find a solution to the conflict over the Ukrainian ships that the Russians have seized. A German government spokesman has reported this. Shortly before, Minister of Foreign Affairs Heiko Maas had called on Russia and Ukraine to stop the quarrel.
A round by the British Parliament makes it clear that at the moment there is no majority for the Brexit agreement concluded yesterday in Brussels. But in the wildly popular betting offices the chance of this is still estimated at 50/50.
The use of 1 and 2 euro cent coins is also coming to an end in Belgium. Cash payments at the cash register must be completed on December 1st next year, the government decided on Friday.
Everything is being prepared in Brussels to take another major hurdle on Sunday in the Brexit negotiations. The EU and the United Kingdom have agreed on the starting points how their future relationship should look like.
London and Brussels have reached an agreement in principle on the political declaration setting out how the future relationship between the EU and the United Kingdom should look after the Brexit. That is what EU President Donald Tusk reports on Twitter.
In their consultations on the Brexit agreement, British Prime Minister Theresa May and President Jean-Claude Juncker of the European Commission have made progress Wednesday, but there is still work to be done before there is a final plan. This was what May and an EU spokesperson said after the meeting in Brussels.
The British Prime Minister Theresa May may shake hands in Brussels from her now EU colleagues after they have mutually stamped the negotiated Brexit agreement. May is expected at 11:00 am in the Europage building where the special Brexittop will be held. The 27 EU heads of government, including Prime Minister Mark Rutte, will start their meeting at 10 a.m.
The man who injured an agent on Tuesday morning at the Brussels coal market in a mes attack, was on trial leave. He was stuck for attempted manslaughter. He was allowed to test while the Belgian Public Prosecution Service issued a negative recommendation.
Two Belgian police officers were stabbed in Brussels on Tuesday morning and wounded. That reports the newspaper La Dernière Heure. Witnesses told the newspaper that the perpetrator called 'allahu akbar'.
Germany has imposed an entry ban on eighteen Saudi's. They are suspected of having been involved in the murder of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The journalist lived and worked in the US and was very critical of the Saud family clan that rules Saudi Arabia.
Like a lover who feels betrayed. For example, many Italians experience the current crisis with Brussels. That quarrel is striking because if one country has always been pro-EU, it is Italy, one of the founders of the Union. But the chilly communication from Brussels that the fairy-tale budget of 'de Laars' can not get under way is hard to come by.
