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Flemish Industry Forum aims to make Flanders into a leading European industrial region

18 September 2020

On Friday 18 September 2020, the first meeting of the Flemish Industry Forum took place in the offices of Flemish Minister-President Jan Jambon. Besides Jan Jambon, who presided over the meeting, and co-chair Minister Hilde Crevits, Ministers Bart Somers, Ben Weyts and Zuhal Demir as well as …

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Where’s Rudi? The N-VA’s scathing analysis of the policy in Brussels

18 September 2020

Where’s Rudi? In a six-page document, the N-VA group in the Brussels Parliament sums up the sticking points of the Vervoort III Brussels government. It contains one constantly recurring theme: the absence of Minister-President Rudi Vervoort and of any form of effective policy. “It is still unclear …

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Gilles Verstraeten wants better coronavirus monitoring in Brussels: “Why don’t we set up a test village like in Antwerp?”

15 September 2020

Brussels MP Gilles Verstraeten calls for a corona test village in Brussels. “A test village appears to be hugely effective in taking the burden off GPs, hospitals and labs.” The infection rates are higher in Brussels than elsewhere in the country. The Brussels government is suspiciously quiet in …

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Brussels postpones checks of Brussels non-profit organisations such as Samusocial

15 September 2020

The Brussels government is extending the term that non-profit organisations have in order to adapt to the stricter regulations from 24 to no fewer than 49 months. The stricter regulations were put in place after scandals at municipal non-profit organisations such as Samusocial. Brussels MP Mathias …

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N-VA on Lesbos: “We must dare to advocate an Australian migration model”

15 September 2020

We need to do something about the current situation, whereby people from North Africa and the Middle East continue to flock to Europe and succeed in entering Europe by paying a human trafficker as part of their illegal migration attempts. We can only do this if we opt for the Australian model, …

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Ben Weyts on the ban on unsedated slaughter: “I will defend this Flemish democratic decision tooth and nail”

13 September 2020

“It is my damn duty, as Minister of Animal Welfare, to defend this Flemish democratic decision tooth and nail. On the De Zevende Dag news show on the Flemish TV channel VRT, Flemish Minister Ben Weyts expressed his determination to uphold the ban on unsedated slaughter. In an opinion, an advocate of …

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