News

European sustainability targets must not adversely affect trade agreements

22 June 2022
Geert Bourgeois

Geert Bourgeois, N-VA delegation leader in the European Parliament and coordinator in the Committee on International Trade, welcomes the review of the European Commission’s Trade and Sustainable Development (TSD) policy, but warns that new sustainability targets must not undermine EU trade …

Read more

A blind increase in EU climate targets further erodes the purchasing power

22 June 2022
Johan Van Overtveldt

Two weeks ago, the votes on the package of climate laws, “Fit For 55”, turned out to be a fiasco. The reform of the Emissions Trading Scheme did not win a majority, and the rapporteurs withdrew other related dossiers. After some patching up by and between the three major groups in parliament, the …

Read more

Assita Kanko: “Ukrainian EU membership only when all conditions have been met”

22 June 2022
Assita Kanko

Tomorrow, the European Parliament will vote on granting Ukraine candidate status. MEP Assita Kanko is working on that dossier in the Foreign Affairs Committee. “The N-VA supports Ukraine, and we are addressing the question of becoming a candidate member of the EU. But the granting of that status …

Read more

The N-VA will not take part in a foreign visit of the Commission on Belgium’s Colonial Past

22 June 2022

At the beginning of September, a delegation of the Special Parliamentary Commission on Belgium’s Colonial Past will travel to the three former Belgian colonies, Congo, Rwanda and Burundi. Each party may appoint one representative. However, the N-VA has decided not to take part. “In our opinion, …

Read more

Drug violence in Brussels: a spiral of deadly violence and political incapacity

21 June 2022
Mathias Vanden Borre

Twelve shootings in ten months in Molenbeek. That is the sad tally since the beginning of the school year. But not only Molenbeek is affected by escalating street violence between drug gangs. Take, for example, the retaliation between Albanian crime gangs a few weeks ago on the De Brouckèreplein …

Read more

Koen Metsu: “The new repatriation of ISIS women is incomprehensible”

21 June 2022
Koen Metsu

Belgium has once again repatriated ISIS women and their children from an ISIS territory in Syria. This concerns six adults and sixteen children. It is the second such operation carried out by the De Croo government during its term of office. “It is incomprehensible that the federal government is …

Read more