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Flanders is receiving EUR 223 million from the European Brexit fund

5 May 2022
Karl Vanlouwe

Flanders is entitled to receive EUR 223 million from the European Brexit Adjustment Reserve in the coming years. Flanders is thus receiving 63% of the total envelope of EUR 353 million that was allocated to Belgium. Flemish MP Karl Vanlouwe requested the information: “The situation for Flemish …

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Park van Laken remains closed to the public

4 May 2022
Cieltje Van Achter

More than a year ago, the Brussels majority parties (Ecolo, Groen, PS, One.Brussels, Défi and Open Vld) announced a resolution to make the royal domain accessible to the public. In the meantime, nothing has happened, and it will remain so for a while. Brussels MP Cieltje Van Achter says that the …

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New European copyright law endangers free internet

4 May 2022

The parliamentary economics committee is considering the reform of copyright. This is a reform that is urgently needed, but which also entails some damaging and pernicious consequences for the sector and the free internet. MP Anneleen Van Bossuyt: “The mandatory filtering system is a modern …

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Setting the voting age at 16 for European elections is pure symbol politics

4 May 2022

The Vivaldi coalition parties voted to lower the voting age for the European elections to 16. The N-VA was not in favour of this age lowering from the beginning: “We naturally welcome an interest in politics from an early age, but the right to vote is something that belongs in the coming-of-age …

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“A pan-European constituency is detrimental to Flanders and European democracy”

2 May 2022
Geert Bourgeois

The N-VA delegation in the European Parliament opposes a proposal on a new electoral law. This proposal aims to achieve a degree of harmonisation, but above all, an EU-wide constituency for 28 additional MEPs, to be elected on transnational electoral lists. “There is no such thing as a large …

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Johan Van Overtveldt questions accession aid to Serbia

28 April 2022

In 2012, the Republic of Serbia was granted the status of candidate country for accession to the European Union. Pre-accession aid of around EUR 1.5 billion between 2014 and 2020 is also linked to this status. This money was subject to conditions, including the professionalisation of an independent …

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