Etiket: Belgian
The ultimate Belgian report: there are more of us, we live longer, we work better, but we also have more accidents
How are we, Belgians, really doing at the moment? As is the annual custom, the statistics agency Statbel has looked into this and bundled our daily existence of the past…
Love in times of war: Ukrainian soldier Serhiy falls in love with Belgian volunteer Lidia in Brussels hospital
Finding love in the middle of a war: it seems like a scenario for a romantic film, but for the Ukrainian Serhiy Antonenko it was reality. The soldier was seriously…
Belgian primeur: before the first bouwt paddock seaside nest in ons land
This year there is a long couple of miles away in the Blankaart in West-Vlaanderen. At first I thought it would be a short time ago: a few days of…
The Belgian government promises more staff for the Brussels judiciary and police
After the deadly attack on Monday last week, the Belgian government announced a package of measures over the weekend to improve problems that have been prevalent in the police and…
Belgian Prime Minister announces measures after attack in Brussels | Abroad
The federal government in Belgium is taking five concrete measures in the short term in response to information about the course of events in the run-up to Monday’s attack in…
Belgian drug lord with ‘drive-in’ for blocks of cocaine loses real estate empire | Domestic
Double bad luck for a Belgian drug lord who had a ‘drive-in’ where criminals could pick up blocks of coke. Dries Lonneux (44) was sentenced to 12 years in prison…
2,500 km by tractor across the Belgian countryside
“I wanted to know: what lives in the countryside? You see that the contrast between city and countryside is often magnified in a caricatured way: rural people who believe that…
Real estate empire seized from Belgian drug lord with ‘drive-in’ for blocks of cocaine | Domestic
Double bad luck for a Belgian drug lord who had a ‘drive-in’ where criminals could pick up blocks of coke. Dries Lonneux (44) was sentenced to 12 years in prison…
Belgian justice minister resigns after ‘unacceptable’ mistake in Brussels attack
The Belgian Minister of Justice, Vincent van Quickenborne, announced his resignation on Friday. Belgian media report this. The decision follows the terrorist attack that took place in Brussels on Monday…
The Belgian Minister of Justice resigns after learning that Tunisia requested the extradition of the perpetrator of the Brussels attack
The Belgian Minister of Justice, Vincent Van Quickenborne, assumes his responsibility and resigns as a result of the terrorist attack in Brussels last Monday, in which two Swedish citizens died.…