Photo by Daria Mamont on Unsplash Are you an expat in Belgium with concerns about your rights? If so, an upcoming meeting could be just for you. It is organised by New Europeans UK and will be held both in person and online. The UK based group was launched in 2013 to help protect the…
Photo by Mayumi Maciel on Unsplash Battle-lines will be drawn this weekend of 22/23 June when Napoleon and Wellington again go head to head on the fields of Belgium. This time, though, no blood will be shed and the combatants are more likely to get together at the finale to give each other a pat…
Photo by Jannik on Unsplash Most Americans see the benefit of NATO according to the latest poll. As world leaders gathered for a crunch NATO summit, new polling says that nearly two-thirds of U.S. adults see a benefit to NATO membership. The Pew Research poll comes amid what has been called the most important NATO…
Photo by Sander Sammy on Unsplash A new poll says most Europeans accept they must prepare for war. This comes in the wake of President Trump’s decision to bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities at the weekend. The multi-country polling report, published ahead of the 2025 NATO Summit, shows widespread support across Europe for increases in defence…
Photo by Vladimir Fedotov on Unsplash The events of the past 48 hours and the Iranian missile strikes on U.S. bases in Qatar, Iraq, and Syria should be seen not just as a regional flare-up, but as part of a broader and more worrying geopolitical pattern: the increasing military-strategic cooperation between Russia and Iran. This…
Photo by Mike van den Bos on Unsplash Emirates’ says it is business as usual despite the turmoil in the Middle East. The Dubai based airline says that its passengers experienced minimal disruptions to their travel plans in the wake of recent events in the region, including air strikes by the U.S on Iran. Despite…
Taiwan has teamed up with a top Belgian artist to draw attention to the emerging security concern of alleged sabotage of undersea cables. A spokesman at the Taipei Representative Office in the EU and Belgium said that in order to highlight what it calls growing threats to undersea cable infrastructure it had teamed up with…
Photo by Jonathan Cooper on Unsplash MEPs say it is time to send a clear signal that the European Parliament defends citizens’ rights. That was the message from the Socialists and Democrats on 18 June ahead of the plenary vote on the 2024 Rule of Law report. It comes, they say, at a time when…
They came from far and wide…..all seeking to be crowned the best bar person in Belgium. Bartenders, who come from all over the world, converged on a horeca training centre in Anderlecht for their gold standard event of the year: the national cocktail championships. This writer was among the judges who joined an elite group…
Anders Vistisen MEP says he supports child protection but defends national legal sovereignty and harsher penalties against child abusers, including medical castration. He was speaking on Wednesday in a key plenary debate on the proposal to combat child abuse across the EU. Vistisen emphasized both his strong support for protecting vulnerable children and his firm…
