Category: The Brussels Times

In an interview with The Guardian on Sunday, he described the conditional approval of Poland’s recovery and resilience plan as “incorrect” and reminded us that he voted against it. Continue reading EC official criticises approval of Poland’s aid plan at Brussels Morning Newspaper.

Brussels – Brussels Morning – An interview with Antonella Valmorbida, SecGen of the European Association for Local Democracy (ALDA) The succeeding crises we have to deal with worldwide as societies- the pandemia, food and energy crisis to name only these – brings back to the foreground discussions on democratic governance and how resilient traditional democracies […]

Belgium, (Brussels Morning Newspaper) Hammadi Jebali, Prime Minister of Tunisia from 2011 to 2013 and Member of Club de Madrid, was arrested on 23 June and then released a few days later after going on hunger strike. Club de Madrid, and on its behalf President Danilo Türk, has sent the letter below to the current […]

Turkey’s armed low-cost unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UAVs) that have proven their field capabilities are reshaping battlefields and geopolitics. Countries are using them to dominate within the region. The drones were successfully used in several recent regional conflicts in which they were seen pinpointing and hunting down armored vehicles and air defense systems. They were […]

The Paris CDG airport is among the ten busiest in the world and second busiest in Europe, serving up to half a million aircraft each year. The ADP staff strike on Thursday will be joined by a number of other unions on Friday, including staff working for airlines operating flights out of CDG, subcontractors and […]

New rules cover public procurement, market concentrations and other market situations, with the Commission stressing that they will close regulatory gaps. Continue reading EC welcomes agreement on Foreign Subsidies Regulation at Brussels Morning Newspaper.

While Turkey agreed to lift its objections to proposed NATO expansion earlier this week, Ankara stressed that it could still block the process if the two aspiring Nordic countries do not meet their obligations, according to The Guardian reporting. Continue reading Turkey warns it could still block NATO expansion at Brussels Morning Newspaper.

The concerns are exacerbated by the clash between Lithuania and Russia over freight traffic to the Russian exclave Kaliningrad. Continue reading EU power grid prepared to absorb Baltic countries at Brussels Morning Newspaper.

Brussels, (Brussels Morning)- An adviser to the Council of State proposes in a report to withdraw the permit for the future beer museum in the Beursgebouw. This advice comes after a call from city associations Inter-Environnement Bruxelles (IEB) and Arau to halt the renovation works. On July 1, 2023, the time has finally come: Belgian […]

Brussels, (Brussels Morning)- The municipality of Anderlecht had to cancel planned income for 18 million euros this year at the request of the regional guardians. This concerns debts incurred before 2016, such as unpaid parking fines or municipal taxes. The local N-VA requests an external audit, but according to the region this is not necessary. […]