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The N-VA sees no reason to extend the abortion period

6 February 2020

“On the one hand, people in favour of the extension of the abortion period say that they also want to prevent the need for the procedure. On the other, they propose that someone who undergoes it doesn’t get any more information about birth control, while the numbers show that half are not using …

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Geert Bourgeois: “Wallonia is playing with the prosperity of Flanders. EU must split the agreement”

6 February 2020
mercosur

The Walloon Parliament is opposing the trade agreement between the EU and the Mercosur countries. MEP Geert Bourgeois is dismayed by that negative attitude: “Wallonia is playing with the prosperity of Flanders. This is CETA revisited.” The European Union has a trade agreement with the customs …

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Bart De Wever: “The PS would rather have a government in which it is itself the boss”

27 January 2020
Bart De Wever

“I have the impression that the PS doesn’t want a government with a majority in Flanders. It would rather have a government in which it can be the boss.” So said Chairman Bart De Wever before the start of the N-VA party executive. Hostilities On Tuesday, Informateurs Joachim Coens and Georges …

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Pressure on asylum reception due to longer period of residence of asylum seekers in Wallonia

27 January 2020
Le gouvernement résiduel dépense davantage pour l’accueil des demandeurs d’asile et réduit le budget affecté à la politique de retour

The period of residence of asylum seekers in Walloon municipal asylum reception structures is on average two months longer than in the Flemish asylum reception structures, a parliamentary question from the N-VA reveals. That generates an additional cost of 5 million euros a year, taking as our …

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Jan Jambon: “Flanders has many assets, and the market is starting to see that”

22 January 2020
Jan Jambon

“There has never been so much invested in Flanders. We have many assets, knowledge institutions and their spin-offs, and the market is starting to see that,” Flemish Minister-President Jan Jambon said from the World Economic Forum in Davos on the news programme De Ochtend on Radio 1. Foreign …

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Flemish Minister-President Jan Jambon visits Auschwitz

20 January 2020
Flemish Minister-President Jan Jambon visits Auschwitz

Flemish Minister-President Jan Jambon visits Auschwitz to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the former German Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp. On the eve of the visit, he gave a speech to the European Jewish Association (EJA), in which he not only strongly …

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