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Business Planet

Social enterprise: a new business model for Europe

This week Business Planet looks at the concept of social enterprise – sustainable, innovative entrepreneurial answers to society’s challenges. It’s

11/12/2015

World

Dealing with diversity in the classroom

Today’s news is overwhelmed with questions on multiculturalism, diversity and peace. In this edition we take a look at how education can play a very

11/12/2015

Europe News

First time asylum applications on the rise in the EU

The number of people claiming asylum in the EU has risen by 150 percent year-on-year, officials figures show. It will put further pressure on

10/12/2015

Europe News

MEPs endorse air passenger data system

MEPs have backed plans to track airline passenger names as part of efforts to fight terrorism. A group of parliamentarians voted to create an

10/12/2015

Europe News

Italy declines to back extension of EU sanctions on Russia

Italy has refused to back an expected six-month extension of EU economic sanctions against Russia. It comes as a surprise to officials in Brussels as

09/12/2015

Belgium

Paris attacks: further arrests and questions

Police in Belgium have made two further arrests in connection with last month’s attacks in Paris. A 28-year-old Belgian man was detained at an

03/12/2015

Europe News

EU governments must share more intelligence, says anti-terror czar

01/12/2015

Belgium

Belgium's PM Michel calls for a European CIA

The Belgian prime minister has suggested Europe needs a central intelligence agency to reinforce and coordinate its anti-terrorist operations

30/11/2015

Sport

Murray leads Great Britain to first title in 79 years

Andy Murray gave Britain its first Davis Cup title since 1936 when he outclassed Belgium’s David Goffin in straight sets in the first of reverse

29/11/2015

Europe News

EU seeks Turkish help to solve migration crisis

EU leaders are turning to Turkey as the bloc continues to struggle with solving the continent’s refugee crisis. Brussels wants Ankara to toughen up

29/11/2015

My Europe Series

Europe Weekly: Belgium under scrutiny after terror alert dropped

In this edition of Europe Weekly: Belgium drops its terror alert level for Brussels from 4 to 3; a suspect package is found at the city’s main

27/11/2015

My Europe Series

Belgium seeks answers over its apparent status as a spring board for Europe's jihadists

Since the Paris attacks soldiers and police have flooded the streets of what is in effect Europe’s administrative capital in neighbouring Belgium

27/11/2015

Belgium

Belgium lowers state of alert in Brussels from maximum level

Belgium has lowered the security threat level in Brussels to three after nearly a week on maximum alert four. The reduction from a very serious

26/11/2015

Sport

Belgium prepare for first Davis Cup final in over a century

Belgium’s finest tennis players have been pounding the clay in preparation for this weekend’s Davis Cup final against Great Britain in Ghent. The

25/11/2015

Europe News

MEPs urge tougher stance on jihadists

The European Parliament on Wednesday called for an EU blacklist of known or suspected jihadists. But the motion passed by MEPs in Strasbourg is

25/11/2015

Europe News

Schools reopen in Brussels

Schools have started to reopen in Brussels after a four-day security clampdown that followed the Paris attacks. But some parents worry whether it is

25/11/2015

Europe News

Brussels firms feel pinch amid terror alert

This close to Christmas, business is normally booming for the shops and traders in Brussels. But the security measures in place amid a terror alert

24/11/2015

Belgium

Brussels clampdown to last another week but schools to reopen on Wednesday

Brussels remains on high alert this Tuesday after the Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel cited a “serious and imminent” threat that justifies

24/11/2015

Belgium

Belgium to maintain high security alert for another week

Belgian police have charged a fourth man over the deadly attacks on Paris. The terrorism suspect was one of 16 people detained on Sunday. The rest

23/11/2015

Europe News

ISIL threat is 'a wake-up call for Europe', says leading defence expert

Euronews asked Serge Stroobants, Brussels representative at the Institute for Economics and Peace, for his assessment of the current terror threat in

23/11/2015

Belgium

Brussels on third day of high security alert

Brussels awoke on Monday morning after 19 raids and 16 arrests overnight and with Interior Minister Jan Jambon telling radio listeners that the

23/11/2015

Belgium

Belgians turn to cats after call for Twitter terror blackout

23/11/2015

Belgium

Belgian police arrest 16 in Sunday night anti-terror raids

Belgian police sealed off streets in the centre of Brussels during raids late on Sunday night. Armed officers mounted several security operations –

23/11/2015

Belgium

Belgium extends maximum alert over 'imminent' threat

Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel has announced that Brussels’ terror alert status is to remain at the highest level. The rest of the country is

23/11/2015

Belgium

Brussels remains on high alert: 'multiple operations underway' across Belgium

Belgian police sealed off streets in the centre of Brussels during raids late on Sunday night. Armed officers mounted several security operations –

22/11/2015

Belgium

Brussels remains on high alert: 'multiple operations underway' across Belgium

Brussels' terror alert status will remain at the maximum level, while the city's schools and metros are to stay shut on Monday.

22/11/2015