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A new law introduced by federal justice minister Annemie Turtelboom in May last year, allowing parents in Belgium to give their babies either the father’s or the mother’s surname, or both, has met
In Eupen yesterday evening, in the Belgian province of Liège, union activists threw eggs and ketchup at Belgium’s pensions minister Daniel Bacquelaine.
The organisers of Sunday’s Hart Boven Hard (HbH) demonstration in Brussels against the government’s cost-cutting policies are expecting as many as 20,000 participants and onlookers to turn out, a
The Arab political activist and writer Dyab Abou Jahjah led a demonstration outside Antwerp’s town hall yesterday evening calling on mayor Bart De Wever to apologise for negative comments he made
The socialist trade union for public sector workers, ACOD, has called for a general strike on Wednesday, 22 April.
Belgium will not get a new €2 coin in commemoration of the Battle of Waterloo, which took place 200 years ago, ending the reign of French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte.
Some 8,000 workers representing the country’s three largest unions demonstrated yesterday on Muntplein in central Brussels in protest at the government’s proposed pension reforms.
Between 5,000 and 10,000 trade unionists are expected to gather today from 11.00 to 13.00 in the centre of Brussels around Place de la Monnaie.
A large taxi demonstration is taking place today in the centre of Brussels, in a procession that started this morning near North station before heading to the centre with an aim to end up in the E
