Belgium

Public sector strike heightens industrial strife in Belgium

Public sector workers went on strike in Belgium on Tuesday in protest at budget cuts and other austerity measures.

31/05/2016

Belgium

Belgium facing more strike chaos

Public sector workers call a general strike for Tuesday following stoppages by rail workers and prison guards in Wallonia and Brussels.

30/05/2016

Netherlands

Dutch court agrees extradition of French terror suspect

A Dutch court has approved the extradition of a French national suspected of involvement in a foiled terror attack.

26/05/2016

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Anti-austerity protest in Belgium

Belgian police used water cannon to disperse around a hundred people as clashes erupted during a protest in Brussels.

25/05/2016

Europe News

Tens of thousands march against Belgian austerity reforms in Brussels

Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Brussels on Tuesday, opposed to the free market policies of the centre-right government.

24/05/2016

Europe News

Thousands sign online weedkiller petition

More than 12,000 people have signed a petition urging EU officials not to grant an extended licence to a widely-used weedkiller.

18/05/2016

Belgium

Striking prison wardens burst into Belgian justice ministry building

There have been dramatic scenes in Brussels, with striking prison wardens bursting into the Belgian Justice Ministry building. Baton-wielding riot

17/05/2016

Belgium

Belgian campsite closed after dozens fall ill

A campsite in Belgium has had to be evacuated after 75 people showed symptoms of food poisoning. Some of them, including children, were taken to

16/05/2016

Belgium

Armed forces deployed to Belgian prisons as strike enters third week

Belgium has mobilised the military to assist in prisons where guards have been on strike for over two weeks. Police and the Red Cross had been

10/05/2016

Belgium

Trial of alleged extremist cell opens in Belgium

Seven stand trial on charges including attempted murder and organising or belonging to a terrorist cell in Verviers.

09/05/2016

Belgium

Brussels airport departure hall reopens after terror attacks

Brussels Airport departure hall partially reopened to passengers on Sunday, less than six weeks after ISIL suicide bombers struck there. “Brussels is

01/05/2016

My Europe Series

Europe Weekly: Abdeslam extradited to France

In this edition of Europe Weekly: Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam is extradited from Belgium to France; the Maelbeek metro station reopens; the

29/04/2016

Belgium

Belgium gives everyone radiation protection pills

Belgium is to supply iodine pills to all its 11 million inhabitants to help protect against radioactivity in the event of a nuclear accident. Iodine

29/04/2016

France

Paris attacks suspect Abdelslam at high-security Paris prison

Key suspect in the Paris Attacks, Salah Abdelslam, has spent his first night at Europe’s biggest prison. He will be kept in solitary confinement at

28/04/2016

Belgium

Belgian monarch visits Maelbeek

King Philippe of the Belgians travels on the metro one month after the Brussels attacks

28/04/2016

Belgium

Salah Abdeslam 'as bright as an empty ashtray', says his lawyer

“He has the intelligence of an empty ashtray, he is abysmally vacuous.” That was the stinging character assassination of Salah Abdeslam, the man

27/04/2016

Belgium

Belgium extradites Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam to France

Belgian authorities have extradited the Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam to France.

27/04/2016

Sport

Cycling: Belgian teenager gets six-year ban for mechanical doping

The International cycling announced on Tuesday its Disciplinary Commission has banned Belgian youngster Femke Van den Driessche for six years for

26/04/2016

Culture news

New museum opens in Brussels' Molenbeek district

A new museum has opened in the Molenbeek district of Brussels, which, it’s hoped, will help shed the negative image of the area most recently linked

26/04/2016

Europe News

Bombed Brussels metro station reopens one month after terror attacks

The metro station in Brussels targeted by suicide bombers last month has finally reopened. A bomb was detonated at the Maelbeek metro station just

25/04/2016