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Johan Van Overtveldt wants a thorough revision: “The European budget is a grab bag”

4 October 2023

“A thorough revision of the European Multiannual Financial Framework is imperative. It is no longer adapted to the needs and challenges of today, let alone those of tomorrow,” says Johan Van Overtveldt, Chairman of the Budget Committee, in his intervention in the debate during the plenary session …

Half of the repatriated IS women are already at large: “The government is playing with our security”

4 October 2023

Between 2021 and 2022, no fewer than 12 IS women and their 26 children were brought back from Syria to Belgium at the initiative of the De Croo government. Today, it turns out that only half of these women are still in prison full-time. “Minister Van Quickenborne (Open Vld party) thought it was so …

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 …

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