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The Belgian defence ministry is to open a pop-up store in the Docks Bruxsel shopping centre in Schaerbeek in a bid to recruit more young people into the country's armed forces.
Two Belgian F-16 fighter planes escorted a civilian cargo plane over Netherlands airspace to its final destination of Liège airport following a bogus bomb alert on Tuesday evening.
A broad cooperation agreement on recruitment and training between the ministry of defence, the Brussels employment service Actiris and the Bruxelles Formation tutoring centre was signed on Tuesday
A citizens’ group in Brussels has called for the installation of solar panels on the Royal Museum of the Armed Forces and Military History to reduce the high energy costs it incurs, RTBF reports.
The unions representing military personnel have welcomed the additional €1 billion that will be invested in defence by the end of the current government legislature, they announced on Thursday.
The Belgian army is looking to recruit around 2,500 soldiers.
The majority of the 300 Belgian soldiers assigned to back up Nato forces in Romania flew out from Brussels' military airport Melsbroek on Tuesday.
Belgium will send 3,000 additional automatic rifles and 200 anti-tank weapons to Ukraine, prime minister Alexander De Croo told Flemish channel VTM Nieuws on Sunday.
A convoy of military protection and other equipment from the Belgian Defense has left for Ukraine, according to the spokesperson for defence minister Ludivine Dedonder (PS), reports local media.