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Security high in Belgian capital ahead of country's National Day

Security is tight in Brussels as the city prepares to celebrate its National Day on Thursday.

20/07/2016

Belgium

UK gives up EU presidency in 2017 to focus on Brexit

The UK is to give up its scheduled six-month presidency of the European Council as it prepares to leave the bloc.

20/07/2016

Europe News

All friends for foreign minister Boris Johnson's first meeting with EU counterparts

Boris Johnson, the new British foreign minister and leading campaigner for the UK to leave Europe, survives his first Brussels meeting with his EU counterparts.

18/07/2016

Sport

Belgium sack Marc Wilmots

Belgium sacked national team coach Marc Wilmots on Friday after their highly fancied team of talents failed to advance beyond the quarter-finals at Euro 2016.

15/07/2016

Belgium

NATO and Russia: 'not a meeting of minds' over Ukraine

NATO and Russia are failing to see eye-to-eye over the crisis in eastern Ukraine, the alliance’s Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says.

14/07/2016

Belgium

Belgian court gives heavy sentences to Verviers ISIL cell members

A Belgian judge on Tuesday sentenced 15 members of an ISIL militant cell, nine of them in absentia, to up to 16 years in prison after convicting them of plotting attacks on targets including Brussels…

05/07/2016

Europe News

The Brief From Brussels: Spain, Portugal given more time on deficits

This is The Brief from Brussels, a daily roundup of the top stories from Europe’s de facto political capital.

04/07/2016

Europe News

NATO eyes more Russia talks

NATO officials plan to hold more talks with Russia after an alliance summit later this week, the alliance’s secretary-general said on Monday.

04/07/2016

Europe News

Turkey defies EU over anti-terrorism laws after Istanbul attack

30/06/2016

Belgium

The EU's 27 leaders 'unite' as they view the future minus the UK

EU leaders meeting for the first time in 40 years without their British counterpart have been discussing the UK’s exit and the future without it.

30/06/2016

Europe News

The Brief from Brussels: EU seeks solutions to Brexit vote

In this episode: EU leaders look for an amicable divorce between Britain and Brussels; Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon makes the case for Scotland staying inside the EU, and the world’s media

29/06/2016

Belgium

Nicola Sturgeon gets 'sympathetic' reception in Brussels over Brexit

Scottish first minister Nicola Sturgeon has been in Brussels for talks with senior EU officials.

29/06/2016

Europe News

EU's Tusk tells UK no 'a la carte' access to single market

Britain will not be able to have an ‘a la carte’ relationship with the EU if it wants access to the single market, EU officials said on Wednesday.

29/06/2016

Belgium

EU 27 meet in Brussels - and the UK is not invited

The UK's caretaker Prime Minister David Cameron has gone back to London after yesterday's "awkward" summit.

29/06/2016

Europe News

UK PM Cameron bows out at 'final EU summit'

British Prime Minister David Cameron has bowed out of his final Eu summit by urging his successor to forge strong ties with the bloc.

29/06/2016

Europe News

The EU is finished after Brexit vote, says UKIP's Farage

UKIP leader Nigel Farage said on Tuesday that the EU is “dead” and predicted that more countries would hold referendums on their membership of the 28-member…

28/06/2016

Europe News

UK's Cameron faces EU leaders after Brexit vote

Some in Brussels say that David Cameron was never very much in love with Europe.

28/06/2016

Belgium

''Chères collègues, do not let Scotland down now!"

Scottish MEP Alyn Smith has urged those inside the European Parliament to stand by his country following the dramatic Brexit result.

28/06/2016

Belgium

Feisty Farage tells MEPs 'You're not laughing now'

In a highly-charged session in the European Parliament in Brussels on the UK’s vote to leave the European Union, former Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt slammed the tactics of the ‘Leave’ campai

28/06/2016

Belgium

EU leaders gather for the post-Brexit summit in Brussels

They have made it plain they would like UK Prime Minister David Cameron to trigger Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty - by which a member state can begin the process to leave the EU.

28/06/2016

Belgium

Brexit: bitter exchanges inside EU parliament

There have been bitter and emotional exchanges inside the European Parliament in Brussels during a special session on the UK’s vote to leave the European Union.

28/06/2016

Belgium

Belgium arrests two on terrorism charges

Belgian security forces have arrested two people and charged them with "participating in the activities of a terrorist group."

26/06/2016

Europe News

Juncker insists Brexit not the beginning of the end for EU

The president of the European Commission, Jean Claude Juncker, has urged the UK to start negotiations for leaving the European Union immediately.

24/06/2016

Europe News

Carnegie Europe Director: "Britain has lost a lot more than the EU"

Euronews spoke to Carnegie Europe Director, Jan Techau, to get his take on how the EU will handle with the split with the UK.

24/06/2016

Belgium

David Cameron's "unacceptable behaviour" to blame over referendum defeat, Oettinger tells Euronews

Blame for the failure to convince British voters to remain in the European Union lies at the door of David Cameron, European Commissioner Günther Oettinger told…

24/06/2016

Europe News

Brexit is "warning shot" to EU says British Conservative MEP Syed Kamall

The leader of the European Conservatives and Reformists group in the European Parliament says the UK’s decision to leave the European Union is a “warning shot.

24/06/2016