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Asylum seekers are finding it harder and harder to find a reception centre in Belgium, new figures have revealed.
A new restaurant near Brussels-Midi called Refoodgees offers asylum seekers a one-year culinary training course while serving up dishes from all over the world, thanks to the refugees’ recipe shar
Human rights organisation Amnesty International has condemned Belgium’s shortcomings when it comes to providing asylum to refugees and humane conditions in the country’s prisons.
A sports hall at ULB university in Brussels that was occupied by asylum seekers as part of an initiative from the ‘Stop the Reception Crisis’ collective has been evacuated by police, in an operati
A refugee camp near the immigration office on Boulevard Pacheco in Brussels has been cleared, in an operation conducted by an external company at the request of Belfius bank, which owns the buildi
The refusal rate for Afghan asylum seekers in Belgium is higher than the EU average, according to an annual report by Myria, the federal migration centre.
More than six million new permanent immigrants, excluding Ukrainian refugees, have been registered in countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in 2022 - a 26% increa
The Belgian state and its immigration department Fedasil owes tens of millions of euros in fines for their handling of the latest refugee crisis.
Belgium issued 25,000 deportation orders last year to people living illegally in the country, according to figures from the immigration department.
