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European Disability Card launched

10 October 2016

Federal State Secretary Elke Sleurs has added her signature to a protocol agreement for the creation of a European Disability Card in Belgium. The card enables persons with a disability to show that they are recognised as such in Belgium. As a result, they will be eligible in all participating …

Theo Francken co-launches European Border and Coast Guard

6 October 2016

At the border between Bulgaria and Turkey, the successor to former border guard agency Frontex has been brought into existence. “With the new European Border and Coast Guard, we are offering an answer to the asylum chaos of last year,” State Secretary for Asylum and Migration Theo Francken says …

N-VA also approves Paris climate agreement

4 October 2016

The European Parliament has approved the Paris climate agreement, and the four N-VA MEPs are also lending their support to this historic agreement. Mark Demesmaeker emphasises the importance of this: “The Paris climate agreement is the first legally-binding climate agreement and aims to limit the …

Helga Stevens, candidate for President of the European Parliament

4 October 2016

The ECR group, of which the N-VA is part, has put forward Helga Stevens as candidate for President of the European Parliament. “I want to show that it is possible to be a President of the European Parliament who represents and unites the whole assembly and all MEPs,” Helga Stevens says. “Europe is …

Free train ticket is inappropriate propaganda stunt

3 October 2016

The Christian Democrat EPP group in the European Parliament is proposing to give a free train ticket to all 18 year olds, an initiative which would cost taxpayers EUR 1.9 billion a year: “money that will be cut from budgets for European research into, for example cancer,” fears MEP Anneleen Van …

No tax deduction for asylum seekers

30 September 2016

Asylum seekers without a professional income will from now on be taxed as non-residents in Belgium and are therefore no longer subject to our personal income tax. “As a result, they will no longer be able to enjoy a tax credit for dependent children,” says Minister of Finance Johan Van Overtveldt …

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