Belgium

Belgium

Greece's new proposals get a positive reception from Eurogroup ministers

Monday’s emergency summit in Brussels ended more hopeful than it began, with Greece looking to have stepped back , if only slightly, from the brink

23/06/2015

Europe News

Greek deal to be reached "this week"

After five months of deadlock, a solution to the Greek debt crisis will be presented to European leaders this week, European Council President Donald

22/06/2015

Belgium

With the Greeks in Brussels, thousands turn out in solidarity protest

Standing with Greece in Brussels, several thousand people gathered in the Belgian capital and symbolic heart of the EU ahead of crunch talks on

21/06/2015

Belgium

Russia threatens retaliation as state assets seized over Yukos affair

French and Belgian courts have seized Russian government assets in three countries in an effort to repay shareholders of Yukos, the now defunct Russian oil company.

18/06/2015

Europe News

Waterloo re-enactment kicks off in Belgium

It’s been two hundred years since Britain and her allies defeated Napoleon Bonaparte on the muddy battlefields of Waterloo, just outside of Brussels

18/06/2015

Belgium

Belgium marks Waterloo battle

A muddy battlefield in Belgium, two hundred years ago today. A clash between two armies that would shape the map of the European continent for the

18/06/2015

Culture news

Waterloo exhibition eyes surge in visitors as battle anniversary approaches

The two hundred anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo is just around the corner. And a somewhat novel exhibition has been set up to mark the

18/06/2015

Europe News

Belgium marks 200th anniversary of Waterloo

Belgium will mark Napoleon’s defeat at Waterloo from Thursday to Sunday with a three-day-long recreation of the battle. It saw the allies bring an

17/06/2015

Culture news

Waterloo fan finishes model replica after forty years

A Belgian Battle of Waterloo enthusiast has completed a model of the momentous day in 1815 he started four decades ago.

17/06/2015

Belgium

Social media leak scuppers history exam in Belgium

Education authorities in Belgium have cancelled the history paper for this year’s high school diploma after it was leaked on social media. The

17/06/2015

Europe News

Juncker slams Greece for misrepresenting EU stance

The Greek government is misleading voters by mis-stating the position of EU officials in ongoing debt negotiations, Jean-Claude Juncker, the

16/06/2015

Belgium

Battle of Waterloo, live-tweeting 200 years on

For the 200th anniversary of the battle of Waterloo, the euronews newsroom gives you the opportunity to relive the fateful day. Throughout June 18

15/06/2015

Belgium

EU Commission: EU Commission: we’re not demanding anyone’s pension be cut

15/06/2015

Belgium

Battle of Ligny: Napoleon's final victory re-enacted to mark bicentenary

Hundreds of volunteers have been re-enacting Napoleon Bonaparte’s final victory in Belgium. It was in Ligny that the French Emperor beat off the

14/06/2015

Europe News

Mexico, EU seek deeper trade ties

The European Union and Mexico agreed on Friday to launch negotiations toward a new free-trade agreement, as Mexico seeks to avoid being sidelined by

12/06/2015

Belgium

IMF blasts Greece over lack of progress in debt talks

“Major differences” remain between Greece and its international creditors, the International Monetary Fund said on Thursday, as officials tried to

11/06/2015

Europe News

EU meeting overshadowed by Greek debt talks

EU leaders met their counterparts from Latin American and the Caribbean on Thursday in a summit largely overshadowed by the ongoing Greek debt talks

11/06/2015

World

EU set for key Latin America meeting

Leaders from Europe, Latin American and the Caribbean will meet again in Brussels this Wednesday and Thursday. More than 60 heads of state and

09/06/2015

Belgium

Belgium: police raids on suspected Islamists

09/06/2015

Belgium

Belgium uses half-measures to circumvent French veto on Waterloo coin

Belgium has come up with a way to circumvent French opposition to a commemorative 2 euro coin celebrating the Battle of Waterloo. Instead its minting

09/06/2015

Belgium

Service held at Brussels Synagogue in memory of terror attack victims

A memorial service has taken place to mark the anniversary of the terror attack on Belgium's Jewish Museum in which four people died.

02/06/2015

Belgium

Belgium: hanging up on the phone booth

Belgium has made the call to dismantle its remaining phone booths. Two years ago the government lifted a rule for former national operator Proximus

01/06/2015

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Lego for the Waterloo anniversary!

30/05/2015

Belgium

"Nobody knew exactly what was happening", remembering Heysel 30 years on

Thirty years on from the Heysel tragedy, the memories echo in the minds of those who were there when 39 people died ahead of the 1985 European Cup final between Liverpool and Juventus.

29/05/2015

Belgium

Wreaths laid in memory of Heysel Stadium deaths in 1985

A deadly day in football history, the Heysel Stadium disaster 30 years ago, has been commemorated at Belgium’s rebuilt and renamed King Baudouin

29/05/2015

Belgium

Heysel: a tragedy waiting to happen

On May 29, 1985, 39 people – most of them supporters of Italian football champions Juventus FC – were killed inside the Heysel Stadium in Brussels

28/05/2015