Brussels expects that import duty will come with steel
May 30, 2018 08:03European Commissioner Malmström (Trade) expects the European Union for exports of steel and aluminum to the US does not come under import duties.
European Commissioner Malmström (Trade) expects the European Union for exports of steel and aluminum to the US does not come under import duties.
How could this happen? More than two years after the horrendous attacks in Brussels and at Zaventem airport, Belgium is desperately wondering whether Islamic terrorism has once again hit Belgian soil.
Because of the deadly shooting in Liège, the National Security Council of Belgium meets Tuesday afternoon, the body that determines and coordinates the intelligence and security policy. The federal crisis center indicated earlier that the threat level remains at 2, on a scale of 4.
The political summit between the Dutch and Belgian federal government on Tuesday evening in Brussels has been postponed. Diplomatic sources confirm that blowing off the so-called Thalassa consultations is related to the shooting in Liege earlier in the day.
Italian President Sergio Mattarella has commissioned former IMF official Carlo Cottarelli to form a government.
Cotton buds, straws, disposable cutlery and plates, balloon sticks, stirrers and other plastic disposable items for which there are sustainable and affordable alternatives should be banned if it is up to the European Commission. Vice-chairman Frans Timmermans presented proposals on Monday to counter the accumulation of plastic waste in the oceans.
Hundreds of passengers on the Thalys spent the night from Friday to Saturday in the train at a station in the north of Paris. Together, three trains traveling from Paris to Brussels made a reversal because they could not pass through Belgium.
Five asylum seekers have escaped from a closed center in Belgium during the night from Friday to Saturday due to the consequences of severe weather. Due to the heavy rainfall, the center in Steenokkerzeel near Brussels was flooded and the electricity was turned off.
The IMF and countries of the euro zone have not been able to reach an agreement with Greece on Greek debt.
EU Commissioner Vera Jourova (Justice) believes that Facebook needs to do more to restore public confidence in the Internet business.
Facebook recognizes 99 percent of terrorist groups as IS and Al Qaida related messages before they are reported by users. In the case of bullying, the American Internet company can delete messages within ten minutes. 'I am proud of that', according to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
Many questions that political groups in the European Parliament put to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg remained unanswered on Tuesday. Because of the conversation design and the limited time, dozens of questions did not receive a reaction, as some people feared beforehand.
Does Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg dare to commit more concretely in Brussels to stricter privacy protection for his users than he did in the US Congress? According to privacy experts, this question is crucial if Zuckerberg does not want to run into new investigations by European supervisors.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg arrived in Brussels on his private plane on Tuesday afternoon. He will be welcomed in the European Parliament around 6 pm, where the American is expected to answer questions about his company's role in the abuse of private users' data in the Cambridge Analytica scandal for about an hour.
At an international conference on Gambia in Brussels donors promised Tuesday 1.45 billion euros. Political and financial support must strengthen democracy in the West African country, stimulate economic growth and increase respect for human rights and the rule of law.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will once again apologize on Tuesday for the role of his company in the abuse of private data of users in the scandal around Cambridge Analytica. Facebook has taken insufficient responsibility for user data, fake news and foreign influencing of elections, Zuckerberg will explain later in the day in the European Parliament, where there is a lot of outrage about the issue.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg arrives at the European Parliament in Brussels on Tuesday at 6 pm to explain the misuse of personal data from some 2.7 million Facebook users in the EU. The American is received by President Antonio Tajani.
The new Italian government is in the starting blocks, but makes all alarm bells go off in Brussels. The fear is that Italy will have a clear financial policy, especially now that there was a little peace in the EU tent again.
A hiker found the lifeless body of a newborn baby in a park in Schaerbeek near Brussels on Monday afternoon. That reports RTBF.
The conversation between Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and parliamentary leaders of the European Parliament can be seen on Tuesday for the public. Parliament President Antonio Tajani announced that on Twitter.
This weekend, the Five Star Movement and the Lega on squares throughout Italy will announce the content of the coalition agreement that they have established together. The people can then let them know by means of a vote whether or not they agree with the agreement.
The Brussels District Court acquitted eighteen of the nineteen suspects of the diamond robbery at Zaventem airport in early 2013 because of lack of evidence. In the robbery, the perpetrators took out 37 million euros worth of diamonds from a plane belonging to a Swiss airline.
The European Commission is dragging six EU governments before the European Court of Justice because of the substandard air quality in their country. According to Brussels, Germany, France, Italy, Hungary, Romania and Great Britain have for years done too little to reduce the emission of life-threatening substances such as nitrogen dioxide and particulate matter to legal limits. Spain, the Czech Republic and Slovakia are currently escaping a lawsuit.
The talk between Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and parliamentary leaders of the European Parliament will take place on Tuesday at 5.45 pm. The subject is the abuse of personal data from millions of users collected by the British company Cambridge Analytica to be used in election campaigns.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has accepted the invitation from the European Parliament to explain the abuse of personal data from tens of millions of users. He does not, however, tell his story in public; only the party leaders and the rapporteur of the Civil Liberties Committee are present.
The European arrest warrant against three ministers of the deposed Catalan government is 'not feasible'. This has been determined by the Brussels Council Chamber. The Spanish justice has asked Belgium to deliver Meritxell Serret, Lluís Maria Puig and Antoni Comín after they fled to Belgium in October with their premier Carles Puigdemont.
Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel wants an independent international investigation into the violence in Gaza. He is going to plead there on Tuesday evening during a meeting in Brussels with the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, he said on the radio. Guterres also speaks EU President Donald Tusk.
The EU is doing everything it can to save the nuclear deal with Iran. EU foreign chief Federica Mogherini received the Iranian minister Mohammad Zarif (Foreign Affairs) in Brussels on Tuesday morning for an initial interview since the United States of America signed the agreement. Zarif called it 'a constructive' consultation. He later meets his French, German and British colleagues.
Salah Abdeslam does not appeal against his conviction to twenty years in prison for a terrorist murder attempt and forbidden possession of weapons. The Brussels court sanctioned the 28-year-old Frenchman last month for his involvement in a shooting in the Brussels municipality of Vorst in March 2016 in which several officers were injured.
Great Britain wants to ensure that the nuclear deal with Iran stays with its European partners. Tehran must therefore continue to fulfill the obligations arising from the treaty. That is what Prime Minister Theresa May told the Iranian President Hassan Rohani on Sunday.