BRUSSELS ― The United Kingdom is pushing to transfer almost €200 billion in Russian immobilized assets held in Belgium into a separate investment fund, officials told POLITICO. Supporters say the move …
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Belgium’s Flemish nationalist party on Wednesday threw its support behind French President Emmanuel Macron’s plan to recognize a Palestinian state in a surprise shift following criticism of the party’s silence …
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The wave of violence that engulfed Brussels on Sunday and Monday following a major football match was spurred by racist hatred for Belgium’s multiethnic capital, the city’s mayor said. Supporters …
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Romanians living abroad are poised to help usher the far right into power back home. Nationalist firebrand George Simion stormed to first place in Sunday’s presidential vote, taking about 40 …
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BRUSSELS — For decades, European governments accepted that the decline of their polluting, loss-making steel industries was inevitable and irreversible. No more. After years of neglect, developed economies are discovering …
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The European Commission presented to EU countries on Wednesday a list of the concessions it is willing to make to the Donald Trump administration as well as a new list …
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A 19-year-old man was injured in a shooting that occurred overnight between Tuesday and Wednesday in the Brussels district of Anderlecht, the Brussels prosecutor’s office said Wednesday. “On April 30, …
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Chinese spies sought to gain information on Samuel Cogolati, a Belgian co-chair of the Greens party and prominent China critic, by attempting to coerce one of his political opponents, local …
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BRUSSELS — The long-neglected web of cables, coils and switches that keeps Europe’s lights on is finally having its moment in the limelight — for all the wrong reasons. Energy concerns have …
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The billionaire who wants to Make France Great Again Pierre-Édouard Stérin is hoping to use his financial firepower to remold French politics in line with his conservative ideals. By MARION …