The Brussels court has imposed community service sentences on five rioters who caused destruction in the Belgian capital in November after the qualifying match for the World Cup between Morocco and Côte d'Ivoire. A rapper who had been arrested for calling on the riots via Facebook was acquitted for lack of evidence.
The EU must draw the wallet for aid clubs promoting European values like democracy within the EU. The European Parliament demands that the European Commission come up with a concrete proposal for this.
Main suspect Mehdi Nemmouche and his alleged henchman Nacer Bendrer at the attack on the Jewish Museum in Brussels in May 2014 must stand trial before a people's jury. The attack demanded the lives of two Israeli tourists, a volunteer and an employee of the museum.
Belgian football fans can not follow the performances of their Red Devils at the World Cup in Russia this summer on big TV screens in the center of Brussels. For security reasons, the city council forbids fencing in public places such as the Grote Markt and also cafes may only turn on within the TV.
It is time to negotiate accession to the European Union with Albania and Macedonia. The European Commission makes this recommendation to the 28 EU countries. Both candidate countries have made sufficient progress, according to Brussels, but there is still a long way to go, including in the area of anti-corruption and crime prevention.
The first sex doll broth part is a fact. In the Belgian city of Meise the doors of the 'sex doll house' opened.
All member states of NATO have expressed their full support for the American, French and British attacks on Syria. They did so after the NATO ambassadors of the three countries had given their 26 colleagues information, which they believed to be responsible for the use of chemical weapons in Douma, a week ago, by President Assad's government.
On the French island of Martinique, the 35-year-old Belgian politician Emilie Eloy was found dead. She was active at the Francophone socialist party PS in Brussels. She would probably stand for election at the next municipal elections. RTL reports that.
The European Union Ambassador in Russia is back at his post in Moscow. After the attack with nerve gas in Salisbury on former double-spy Sergej Skripal and his daughter, the government leaders decided to call the German Markus Ederer back to Brussels for consultation at their top three weeks ago.
At the entrances of 22 larger railway stations in Belgium, concrete blocks are provisionally placed. The precaution must prevent a vehicle from entering a station. There is no specific reason for this, emphasizes rail company NMBS.
All parties in the European Parliament really want top man Mark Zuckenberg to come from Facebook to Brussels to answer for the scandal with the leakage of data from tens of millions of users.
The man who sang panic in a shopping street in Brussels in June 2016 with what later turned out to be a false bomb belt, has been sentenced to two years in prison, half of which is conditional. The court also imposed a fine of 1,800 euros on him.
European privacy watchdogs will jointly develop a strategy for dealing with social media that collect and use personal data. The reason for this is the data leak at Facebook, as a result of which user data came into the hands of data analysis company Cambridge Analytica.
Europe's most authoritarian leader, Viktor Orban, hopes for his re-election tomorrow. The nationalist is firmly in the saddle, supported by absurd and anti-Semitic state propaganda, but still wants more billions from the EU-ruff of Brussels, which he detested. The opposition is weak because divided.
The data of some 2.7 million Facebook users in the EU may be 'improperly shared'. \u0026 # X27; \u0026 # x27; with the discredited research bureau Cambridge Analytica.
A 100 percent Muslim state and men and women must travel separately on public transport. The Belgian party Islam comes with controversial plans in the run-up to the municipal elections in the autumn. This to anger of voters and other politicians. 'No sharia. Not now. Never ever.'
In Belgium, it is shocked to respond to the plans of the Muslim party 'Islam', which calls for the separation of men and women in public transport. This is to protect women from palsy men. The ultimate goal of the party, a hundred percent Islamic state, is also controversial.
Computer problems at Eurocontrol, European air traffic control in Brussels, impose restrictions on air traffic in Europe. Emergency procedures have been put in place, reducing capacity by 10 percent, the organization reports. It is unclear whether flights have to be canceled due to the failure of the flight management system.
The former and now arrested Catalan Prime Minister Carles Puigdemont would have discovered a tracker in Belgium two weeks ago under his car. According to several media, the lawyers at Puigdemont reported to the police in his home town of Waterloo, near Brussels, the discovery of the GPS channel and filed a complaint for violation of privacy.
The Belgian police have distributed nearly a hundred coupons to campaigning taxi drivers. The angry drivers received an official report on or around the Brussels ring road because they maliciously interfered with traffic and for other violations, according to Minister of Internal Affairs Jan Jambon.
NATO will also take measures in response to the use of nerve gas against a former double spy in Salisbury, England. Topman Jens Stoltenberg gives a press conference at the headquarters in Brussels around 3.30 pm.
In Brussels, a traffic chaos threatens Tuesday due to the actions of the taxi sector. The police advises motorists to leave their car at home.
Fourteen EU Member States decided on Monday to expel Russian diplomats from their country. That made EU President Donald Tusk known in Brussels. He did not rule out the fact that more European countries will follow in the coming days with measures in response to the poisonous attack in Salisbury in England on a former Russian double spy.
The Cruyff Court in Molenbeek, Belgium, which opened on Thursday, was destroyed within a day and a half. Vandals have cleared the material shed, smashed the windows of the loft and tried to set fire on the synthetic turf pitch.
A summit meeting between Turkey and the EU on Monday in Bulgaria, intended to defrost the relationship, threatens to miss its target. Ankara is angry because the 28 EU leaders have sharply criticized the country.
Martin Selmayr, the controversial new Secretary-General of the European Commission, will not leave. That said the chairman of the committee after a summit in Brussels. 'He will not leave since I am the only one who can dedicate it to him', according to Jean-Claude Juncker. 'He will not leave.'
France and Germany will announce in the coming days 'coordinated and balanced' measures in response to the Russian attack with nerve gas on a former double spy in Salisbury, England. The French President Emmanuel Macron announced this at a joint press conference with Chancellor Angela Merkel after an EU summit in Brussels.
According to French President Emmanuel Macron, the hostage taking in a supermarket in Trèbes, in the south of France, is all about a terrorist attack and the area around the supermarket is guarded by security forces.
The EU leaders have approved a transition period for the British after their departure from the EU on March 29, 2019. At their summit in Brussels, the 27, because Prime Minister Theresa May was no longer there, also the light on green for the negotiations on the last phase of the brexit.
The European Union is calling its ambassador back from Moscow for consultation. The measure follows the establishment of EU heads of government on Thursday evening that Russia is most likely behind the attack with nerve gas in Salisbury on former double-spy Sergei Skripal. According to them, that is the only plausible explanation.
