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Northern Ireland's deputy first minister visits Flanders Fields

The deputy first minister of Northern Ireland, Martin McGuinness, paid a visit to the battlefields of West Flanders this week, together with Flemish minister-president Geert Bourgeois. McGuinness, one of the co-heads of the Northern Ireland Executive, first stopped at the Island of Ireland Peace...

Court strikes down deal for Arco shareholders in Dexia

Up to 800,000 people risk losing some of their savings after the advocate-general of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in Luxembourg handed down an opinion declaring that a state guarantee given by the federal government in 2009 was against EU law. The clients are shareholders in Arco, the...

Airport bomber monitored by police since last summer

Mohammed Abrini, the third suspect in the terrorist attacks on Brussels Airport on 22 March, who fled the scene without detonating his bomb, was under police surveillance since July of last year, the French newspaper Le Parisien has reported. In June of last year, Abrini, otherwise known as “the...

'Bringing people together': Brussels concert marks 50 years of Up With People

Up With People, an American educational organisation with a mission to bridge cultural barriers through voluntary service and music, is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a concert in Brussels this weekend - rescheduled after the events in Paris last November. Started in 1965, UWP was an...

Giant panda born in Pairi Daiza

The giant panda Hao Hao on Wednesday night gave birth to a baby in the Belgian zoo Pairi Daiza, announced the zoo together with the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda. News of the birth made headlines around the world, as the giant panda is on the IUCN Red List of Threatened...

More than 5,000 foreign doctors practicing in Belgium

As of 2012, there were 5,326 non-Belgian doctors with an active INAMI number working in Belgium, according to figures from the FPS Health. The foreign doctors account for more than 10% of the 44,741 active physicians in the country, writes La Dernière Heure . The majority of foreign doctors come...

Belgium pulls a draw in friendly against Finland

Belgium's national football team, the Red Devils on Wednesday took on Finland in a pre-Euro 2016 friendly match which ended in a 1-1 draw. The Belgians played a stronger match, agrees the international media. Belgium initially fell behind after a goal by Finland's Hämäläinen. But a goal by Red...

Four in 10 Belgians don't understand what their GP says

Some 40% of people in Belgium don’t fully understand their doctor’s explanation of their condition or of the advised treatment, according to a survey by the Onafhankelijke Ziekenfondsen (OZ), or Independent Mutualities. Seventeen percent of the 1,033 participants who took part in the survey clearly...

What's on this week: 3-10 June

This year's Carolus V Festival is putting an accent on gastronomy - and Family Day on 5 June is no exception. Visitors will be invited to take part in a Renaissance banquet with dishes based on centuries' old recipes. There will also be a zythology workshop (zythology is to beer what oenology is to...

Bruegel the Elder meets Google

I’m tempted to say that the best place to see Bruegel: Unseen Masterpieces is on the internet rather than at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts in Brussels. But then something would be missing. “Nothing corresponds to experiencing the original works,” says Isabelle Vanhoonacker, head of public services...

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