Belgium

Green News

Ghent: Europe’s need-to-know green city

From its zero-waste cafés to city farms and renewable energy initiatives, Ghent has serious green credentials.

07/05/2019

Belgium

European Leadership Awards recognise the men and women shaping Europe

Honouring leaders with outstanding achievements in business, politics and innovation, Euronews and the European Business Summit (EBS) hosted the second edition of the European Leadership Awards.

03/05/2019

Belgium

European elections 2019: What happened this week?

This week we look at the smaller parties that could tip the scales in the new parliament and examine the role of the Eurosceptics' favourite target, the EU Commission.

03/05/2019

Europe News

Increasing risk of cancer in the workplace

Trade unions demand that cancer be recognised as work related illness and calls on the European Union to maintain pressure on employers

02/05/2019

Europe News

EU elections 2019: Who is Guy Verhofstadt? And what does he stand for

Our profile of Guy Verhofstadt, one of the hopefuls to replace Jean-Claude Juncker after May's European Parliament elections.

01/05/2019

Europe News

Neo-liberal capitalism 'cannot change climate goals,' says Tomic

The European Left candidate to succeed Jean-Claude Juncker told Euronews "we have to change the system" in order to fight global warming.

30/04/2019

Belgium

European elections 2019: A round-up of the week's best stories

With one month to go until voters across Europe head to the polls, this week we're explaining exactly what the European Parliament does, examining the role of data electioneering in a post-Cambridge Analytica age and meeting three very different candidates

26/04/2019

Belgium

Pret a Changer as sandwich chain backtracks on binning Brussels statue

Pret a Manger had originally planned to get rid of the much-loved horse-zebra statue at Brussels' Midi station, but has since overturned its decision after public upset

26/04/2019

Europe News

Watch: 'Far-right rising because people fed up with banks' behaviour'

"I believe one of the reasons why the extreme right is on the rise in many parts of Europe is people are fed up with the way the financial sector has been behaving."

26/04/2019

Europe News

What does the European Commission do?

Ahead of the European Parliament elections in June, we are explaining the functions of the different branches of the European Union. What does the European Commission do?

26/04/2019

Europe News

'EU should put climate above trade,' says Brussels top job hopeful

Watch live: "Climate change now top of agenda where it belongs," says Green MEP Ska Keller

25/04/2019

Europe News

Van Rompuy advisor warns of European "day of reckoning

Luuk Van Middelaar, a philosopher and advisor to former President of the European Council, Herman van Rompuy, has spoken to Euronews about a new balance of power in Brussels.

25/04/2019

World

EU and Japan prepare for Brussels summit as new trade deal underway

The European Union is holding a summit with Japan in Brussels later today. The high level gathering precedes the G20 meeting, which is to take place in Osaka in June. It also comes less than three months after the EU-Japan trade deal came into force.

25/04/2019

Next Series

EU Labs use groundbreaking "CRMs" to check pesticides in food

In partnership with The European Commission

The European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC) is developing Certified Reference Materials (a “CRM”) to check pesticides in foods. A CRM is a measurement standard supporting laboratories to check the quality of their measurement methods.

22/04/2019

Belgium

MEPs votes in favour of strict new rules on online terrorist content

The European Parliament has voted in favour of proposals that will compel websites to take down terrorist content within one hour

17/04/2019

Living

Can one woman change Belgium’s love affair with bottled water?

Why is Belgium so hooked on bottled water - while hosting the EU headquarters, a world leader in the fight against plastic waste?

15/04/2019

Belgium

European Elections 2019: What happened this week?

This week we take a look at some of those running for election, including a former tennis world No.1 and a great-grandson with a formidable political lineage, and examine a poll that shows an upward trend for both the parliament's largest groups.

14/04/2019

Europe News

What does the European Council do?

Ahead of the European Parliament elections in June, we outline the functions of the different branches of the European Union. What does the European Council do?

14/04/2019

Europe News

The EC say they protect whistleblowers - but what about Assange?

A new whistleblower directive was approved by EU negotiators on Tuesday in Strasbourg. But at a press conference, when asked whether Julian Assange was a whistleblower, the reply was "no comment".

12/04/2019

Belgium

What was on the tablet that had May and Merkel laughing?

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been breaking the EU summit ice with under-fire UK PM Theresa May.

10/04/2019

Belgium

What does the EU trade with China? In charts

As officials from the EU and China meet in search of creating stronger trade ties, we take a look at why and how this summit is critical for Europe.

09/04/2019

Belgium

EU target to half road fatalities by 2020 won't be reached

The safest European roads are in the UK and the least safe in Romania, the report found.

06/04/2019

Belgium

Belgium apologises for abducting mixed-race children in colonial-era

Belgium has for the first time officially acknowledged responsibility for kidnapping thousands of mixed-race children from Congo between 1959 and 1962

05/04/2019

Belgium

Fancy a veggie disc? MEPs back burger ban for plant-based foods

The EU's Agricultural Committee has voted in favour of removing plant references from names associated with meat

04/04/2019

Belgium

Juncker: 'No more short Brexit delays unless deal passed by April 12'

Back to you, London.

03/04/2019

Belgium

EU chief negotiator Barnier says no deal Brexit increasingly likely

The EU says no deal Brexit is now more likely than ever before but hopes to avoid it

02/04/2019