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Abortion law in Belgium due for an update, say abortion centres

The abortion laws in Belgium are due for an update, according to abortion centres from across the country. The centres are calling for an urgent revision to the current laws which do not allow abortion beyond 12 weeks after conception. According to specialists, the abortion laws in Belgium date...

Them and us: fear and loathing in Renaissance Europe

The Ottomans have long held a special place in the European imagination. Subjects of fear, fascination, anxiety, admiration, respect and contempt at various times, and sometimes simultaneously, the Turk entered the European consciousness in the late Middle Ages and never left. A groundbreaking...

Club Brugge beat Anderlecht in Belgian Cup Final

Club Brugge on Sunday won the final of the Belgian Cup against Anderlecht 2-1, reports brusselnieuws.be. Club Brugge confidently took a 1-0 lead in the 12thminute after a stunning volley from Tom De Sutter. In the 89th minute, Anderlecht’s Aleksandar Mitrović equalised the score, but three minutes...

Peak in particulate matter on Friday in Brussels

The air quality in Brussels on Friday was worse than in Beijing, reports brusselnieuws.be based on a report by Frans Fierens of the Belgian Interregional Environment Agency (IRCEL-CELINE). The daily average for particulate matter reached levels of more than double the European annual average,...

Ghent first Belgian city to launch plan to expose discrimination

Ghent is the first Belgian city to adopt a comprehensive action plan to combat discrimination on the grounds of race, gender, religion, age or disability. The city plans to use undercover researchers – known as mystery shoppers – to expose discrimination by companies, landlords and employment...

Store active nuclear waste in clay, says federal agency

Niras, the national institute for the treatment of radioactive waste and enriched nuclear material, has told the government that it should store highly active or long-lived radioactive waste in deep soil layers of clay. It would be the first step towards the long-term management of nuclear waste by...

Volunteers clean up beaches at weekend

Nearly 1,600 volunteers gathered on beaches along the Belgian coast on Sunday to help collect litter. In an initiative led by energy provider Eneco and more than a dozen Belgian surf clubs, the volunteers managed to clean up nearly 6,500kg of trash as part of the sixth Eneco Clean Beach Cup. The...

Culture beat - 20 March

Belgium’s prolific contemporary choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker is behind the live dance exhibition staged at Wiels from March 20 to May 17, 11.00-18.00. Work/Travail/Arbeid consists of nine hours of dance per day over nine weeks. De Keersmaeker has reimagined her work Vortex Temporum as a...

Foreign investment in Belgium up 11%

Last year was a good one for foreign investment in Belgium, with 216 new investment projects, an increase of 11% compared with 2013. The increase is a positive sign, but the number of new jobs created by these investments remains below the level of before the economic crisis, writes De Morgen . "...

Mental health in Brussels

Just as most of us will have moments in our lives when we need to seek the advice of a medical doctor for some physical ailment, many of us will also encounter times when we feel that we could use the guidance of a mental health professional. Unlike physical ailments, however, mental health still...

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