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Johan Van Overtveldt: “The digital euro is a solution in search of a problem”

27 September 2023

Several MEPs who sit on the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee (ECON) are asking the European Central Bank in a letter to wait before introducing the digital euro. “There are still a lot of ambiguities, especially about the added value of the digital currency for the general public,” says …

Record number of new Belgians: The N-VA wants tighter conditions for acquiring nationality

27 September 2023

During the first seven months of this year, 29,000 people have already become Belgian. That is 12% more than last year and also a record since 2012, when the N-VA succeeded in tightening Verhofstadt’s fast-track Belgian law. “A new tightening is in order,” say MPs Theo Francken, Darya Safai and …

Assita Kanko: “The energy deal with Azerbaijan must not dissuade the EU from taking a hard line in Nagorno-Karabakh”

21 September 2023

With Azerbaijan’s attack in the Nagorno-Karabakh region, the conflict with Armenia has flared up again in all its intensity. The issue was raised with urgency in the European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee, where MEP Assita Kanko expressed her concern and called on the EU to take action: …

27 Flemish WWI sites recognised as UNESCO heritage sites: “It is important that we continue to tell the story of the Great War”

20 September 2023

139 World War I cemeteries and memorial sites along the Western Front are being added to the UNESCO World Heritage List. Included in Flanders are 27 cemeteries and memorial sites, such as the Menin Gate in Ypres. Flemish Heritage Minister Matthias Diependaele is pleased. “In Flanders, the …

Tomas Roggeman on the asylum crisis: “This is the moral bankruptcy of the left”

20 September 2023

In the Parliamentary Committee on the Interior, State Secretary for Asylum and Migration Nicole De Moor was grilled about her decision to stop offering accommodation to single men. The State Secretary even coolly ignored the annulment by the Council of State. “The asylum mess is so big that it can …

The new Brussels police station will not be ready until late 2028

19 September 2023

The new police centre of the Brussels Capital - Ixelles police district, which is to be located in the former Dexia building on De Lignestraat, will not be finished until the end of 2028 at the earliest. Mayor Philippe Close (PS party) announced this during the city council meeting following a …

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