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One hundred years ago this Christmas, a day of fraternity in Flanders’ fields passed into fable.
A Saturday evening after eight and there was hardly a free seat to be had in Saint-Boniface Church in Ixelles.
A memorial to the First World War Christmas truce has been unveiled in Belgium, nearly a full century after the day the guns fell silent over the trenches.
Christmas markets across Belgium will carry out extra police checks to prevent alcohol abuse among people under the age of 16, said Paul Van den Meerssche of the FPS Public Health.
Belgium is the guest of honour at this year’s Christmas market in Strasbourg, which starts on Friday.
The Christmas tree erected annually on Brussels’ Grand Place traditionally comes from the Ardennes, in the south of Belgium.
