A large insurance company in Brussels is so anxious to have lunch at reports of an impending attack, that the staff is asked not in the center of town. The company AG insurance has 3000 employees and the office is in the center of Brussels.
NATO allies are willing to remain present with troops in Afghanistan after 2017.
The EU Member States have incorporated the last four weeks of 2280 refugees, mainly from Greece and Italy, a near-doubling in a month. This is a positive sign, but it is still too slow, says Brussels.
The European Commission has drawn up a list of scientific criteria that determine which substances can disrupt hormones. Endocrine disruptors are prohibited in principle. EU Commissioner Vytenis Andriukatis (Health) said Wednesday in Brussels when presenting the list,, fully realize that there are growing concerns about these substances exist. '
The ceasefire in eastern Ukraine is violated every day over and over again by the Russians and the rebels. That said NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg Wednesday.,, Russia supports the rebels with weapons and other equipment and pull troops along the border with Ukraine. We call on Russia once again to stop the destabilizing Ukraine. ''
A 26-year-old transgender Tunisian descent show last weekend in being stabbed the Brussels municipality of Etterbeek by two men claiming to be members of IS. The victim is quite beaten. The men crossed her several times with a knife in her belly.
The proponents of the departure of the United Kingdom from the European Union, the Brexit, provided that their country really is no longer a member end of 2019.
The Belgian police received a warning that a 'terrorist cell' is heading to the country and at any moment could be an attack.
NATO allies go in Poland and the three Baltic states permanently encamped four battalions, to better protect the eastern flank of the alliance against possible Russian aggression. Have agreed the defense ministers of the 28 member states on Tuesday in Brussels.
The European Commission is this year 400 million euros for projects that might counter radicalization.
EU ambassador to Turkey, who unexpectedly resigned on Tuesday submitted no respect for the Turkish values and Turkey's president on the day. Hansjörg Haber thereby violated the basic rules of diplomacy, says the Turkish Minister for EU Affairs Ömer Çelik.
A departure from the United Kingdom from the European Union will make less secure Western Europe.
EU ambassador to Turkey has submitted his resignation Tuesday. Hansjörg Haber, a 63-year-old German, had last month caused a diplomatic row by criticizing the Turkish laxity in completing the refugee deal between the EU and Turkey.
The Sun, the most read newspaper in Britain, speaks in the newspaper on Tuesday openly for Brexit. In a full-page editorial on the front page of the newspaper calls on its readers to vote mainly for the exit of Britain from the European Union. 'Beleave in Britain', reads the headline of the piece.
NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg see after years of declining defense budgets finally a turnaround. Last year gave NATO countries plus Canada 0.6% more on defense this year will likely be 1.5% or $ 3 billion.
European dream for many in Greece stranded Syrians. After months in the mud at Idomeni to the Macedonian border they want to go home.
EU Commissioner Frans Timmermans gets the Benelux,, Award for his unwavering commitment to the Benelux and the European idea. '
The Flemish authorities dare not open this year's day of aerospace to.
The Belgian federal police since the attacks in November 241 radical accounts on social media in Paris closed. It was about 138 103 Twitter accounts and Facebook profiles where terrorist acts were glorified, with new attacks threatened or called for hatred.
Belgian mayonnaise will soon be less fat. Mayonnaise may contain legally no longer 80 percent fat, 70 percent is now sufficient. Also may reduce the amount of egg yolk from 7.5 to 5 percent.
Young people Friday in the Brussels district of Molenbeek, a police car on fire. The perpetrators beat by the police in the windows and threw a Molotov cocktail inside, reports Het Laatste Nieuws. There were no injuries and the fire was quickly extinguished.
During a search in Belgium Schaerbeek is a person arrested allegedly involved in attacks in Brussels.
Nearly two hundred prisoners in late May for two weeks had been sent on leave because of a shortage of prison guards in Wallonia and Brussels, get there a week with. This Justice confirmed to VRT news.
At the Brussels airport Zaventem Friday a power failure part. That Belgian media reported. The fault can not check in passengers.
Belgium is one of the suspects of the terrorist attacks in Paris, Mohammed Abrini, over to France. Abrini is better known as the man with the hat 'who walked with explosives on March 22 in Zaventem Airport in Belgium. The French want to try the 31-year-old terror suspect for his role in the attacks.
People who are worried about the safety of apps on their mobile phone can turn to the European Commission with their complaints or comments. Which launched Thursday a sort of digital counter this.
Near Antwerp drove a Benelux train twice through a red signal in November because the driver ignored the signal. According to the Belgian newspaper De Morgen the train came to a stop only when he himself pulled the emergency brake after receiving a distress call. International Benelux train ride from Amsterdam to Brussels.
All entrances to the train stations in Brussels, Antwerp and Liege are open again. After the terrorist attacks of March 22 in Brussels side entrances were closed for travelers to simplify security and not too much to burden the police and the army.
The Belgian Socialist rail union threatens between 12 and 26 June to stop work. The strikes can football fans who want to take trains for the European Championship in France.
The train crash earlier this week in Belgium that left three people dead, was due to the lack of a safety system.
