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Illustration picture shows the Leopold II road tunnel, in Brussels, Tuesday 01 September 2020. (BELGA PHOTO THIERRY ROGE)
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The renovation and maintenance of the Leopold II tunnel in Brussels, the longest car tunnel in the country, cost around half a million euros more than expected, Bruzz reports.

Illustration picture shows the opening of the 'Square Patrice Lumumba' square in Brussels, in honour of the Patrice Emery Lumumba, Saturday 30 June 2018. Lumumba was the first Prime Minister of the independent Congo after it's independence from Belgium. (BELGA PHOTO NICOLAS MAETERLINCK)
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The City of Brussels has launched a call for projects as part of an ‘artistic intervention’ on the Square Patrice Lumumba, adjacent to the Square du Bastion at the Porte de Namur, reports RTBF.

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Melting down a statue of King Leopold II, who oversaw Belgium’s infamously bloody rule of the Congo, is one  proposal by a panel of experts tasked by the Brussels government with determining what

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A proposal to rename Boulevard Leopold II after the famous Brussels singer Annie Cordy – as will already happen with the tunnel of the same name – has divided opinion among the city’s politicians.

BRUSSELS; BELGIUM: Belgian singer Annie Cordy performs, Tuesday 13 November 2007, at the Cirque Royal, for a special evening called "Les etoiles en Foly" for the association Make a wish. (BELGA PHOTO MATHIEU CAPOEN)
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The Leopold II tunnel has been awarded a new name after a public poll but the result has already divided Brussels citizens.

Illustration picture shows the Leopold II tunnel. (BELGA PHOTO VICTORIA DESSART)
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Brussels residents have been given the opportunity to vote for a new name for the capital's Leopold II tunnel.

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The Brussels-Capital Region has launched its working group on the decolonisation of public space.

Egountchi Behanzin, the leader of the Black African Defence League (LDNA) , appears in the 15-minute-long video filmed at the base of the statue of Leopold II in Place de Trône, Brussels (© LDNA/Facebook)
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The Black African Defence League (LDNA) has announced that it will go ahead with the removal of the statue of Leopold II on Place du Trône in Brussels.

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Brussels state secretary Pascal Smet (one.brussels) has called for applications for a special committee on Brussels’ colonial references, including monuments and names of streets and other infrast

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