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Belgium's federal government no longer has a majority in parliament - after prime minister Charles Michel's biggest coalition ally, the Flemish right-wing party N-VA, quit in a row over the UN's m
In retaliation for a similar action carried out in Hungary last month, Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban arranged for a mobile billboard to drive around Brussels this week, criticising Belgian
A majority of the federal parliament voted to approve a resolution on the UN’s Global Compact on Migration on Wednesday, following days of tense negotiations and fear that the government would col
Flanders’ current energy minister Bart Tommelein will become the mayor of Ostend in January.
“A lack of public commitment to clean air and social housing just feeds the mistrust.” With those words, another day of post-election negotiations came to an end in Antwerp on Monday.
Reflecting a similar trend to Brussels and Flanders, the Ecolo party made significant gains in Wallonia.
A name you won't have seen on yesterday's ballot paper is Marion Lemesre, who after 36 years on Brussels city council is stepping down - because "maybe a new generation has new answers".
Almost 50 polling stations in the Brussels region opened late on Sunday because of a technical problem with the electronic voting system.
Green party Ecolo-Groen was a big winner in Sunday's communal elections in the Brussels region, coming first in three of the 19 communes and taking second place in 10 others including Brussels-Cit
