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No need for a European tourism agency

25 March 2021

The coronavirus pandemic has had the world in its grip for a year now. The crisis is affecting all of society and the economy. The tourism sector is also having a particularly hard time. The European Parliament has prepared a report with proposals for a sustainable future for the tourism sector …

China blacklists European Parliament human rights committee: Assita Kanko reacts with shock

22 March 2021

China has imposed sanctions on individuals and institutions in the European Union. Not only individual MEPs, but also the European Parliament’s Subcommittee on Human Rights as a whole, are on this blacklist. “This is very serious and must go on the already long list of existing concerns the …

Minister Diependaele is rolling out foreign property research across Flanders

21 March 2021

“Flanders needs every bit of social housing, which must go to people who actually need it.” Flemish Minister for Housing Matthias Diependaele gives the go-ahead for foreign property research throughout Flanders. “Social landlords can launch an investigation into social tenants who they suspect own …

Tough EU announcements cannot disguise naive vaccine negotiations

18 March 2021

“Tough announcements about export restrictions from the EU to the UK will not improve the dent in the image of the negotiators of the European Commission and our federal government in the coronavirus vaccine procurement strategy, nor will they bring additional vaccines to our country,” argues MP …

The Brussels government invests far too little in support and shelter for the homeless

17 March 2021

“The new count by Bruss’Help confirms what we feared,” Brussels MP Gilles Verstraeten says. In November 2020, there were 5,313 homeless people in Brussels. That is an increase of 27.8% compared to 2018 and an increase of 200% compared to 2008. A threefold increase in 12 years! Three times as many …

Schaarbeek’s municipal administration must comply with the language law

11 March 2021

For seven years now, Schaarbeek’s administration has been led by a town clerk who lacks the required language skills. Brussels group leader Cieltje Van Achter and Flemish MP Annabel Tavernier, both from Schaarbeek, react with bewilderment and point to the guilty negligence of the Brussels …

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