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The N-VA will not take part in a foreign visit of the Commission on Belgium’s Colonial Past

22 June 2022

At the beginning of September, a delegation of the Special Parliamentary Commission on Belgium’s Colonial Past will travel to the three former Belgian colonies, Congo, Rwanda and Burundi. Each party may appoint one representative. However, the N-VA has decided not to take part. “In our opinion, …

Drug violence in Brussels: a spiral of deadly violence and political incapacity

21 June 2022

Twelve shootings in ten months in Molenbeek. That is the sad tally since the beginning of the school year. But not only Molenbeek is affected by escalating street violence between drug gangs. Take, for example, the retaliation between Albanian crime gangs a few weeks ago on the De Brouckèreplein …

Koen Metsu: “The new repatriation of ISIS women is incomprehensible”

21 June 2022

Belgium has once again repatriated ISIS women and their children from an ISIS territory in Syria. This concerns six adults and sixteen children. It is the second such operation carried out by the De Croo government during its term of office. “It is incomprehensible that the federal government is …

The Brussels Parliament continues to allow slaughter without stunning

17 June 2022

On Friday evening, the Parliament of the Brussels-Capital Region voted against an ordinance that makes stunning before slaughter compulsory. Brussels thus remains the only region where slaughter is still carried out without stunning. N-VA-group leader Cieltje Van Achter is disappointed that the …

Make Zaventem Airport a Flemish airport

16 June 2022

N-VA MPs Theo Francken, Sander Loones and Bert Wollants are submitting a bill to fully regionalise Zaventem airport. “In contrast to the other airports in Flanders, Zaventem National Airport is still under the federal government’s jurisdiction. That is absurd,” say the MPs. “Our airport deserves a …

Over EUR 1 million in penalty fees already for mismanagement of asylum policy, and the fees are mounting: “Mahdi’s asylum policy is a flop”

12 June 2022

Secretary of State Mahdi’s asylum policy is not working. Despite the lofty words and big promises he made when he took office to resolve the so-called “asylum chaos”, the reality on the ground after 21 months of Mahdi is dramatic. “Even though there are 30,000 reception places and a record amount …

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