Category: The Brussels Times

Belgium, (Brussels Morning Newspaper) EC and US officials discussed health cooperation in Washington DC, focusing on global cooperation and response, among other. Stella Kyriakides, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, and Xavier Becerra, US Secretary of Health and Human Services, reaffirmed their commitment to strengthen cooperation, the Commission noted in a statement on Thursday. […]

Belgium (Brussels Morning Newspaper) United States-based Google is likely to face a new set of European Union’s antitrust charges in the coming year over its digital advertising business, after previously being fined three times for breaching the bloc’s strict market competition regulations. According to several sources contacted by Reuters, the European Commission will likely issue […]

Belgium, (Brussels Morning Newspaper) NATO and the EU warned Russia against using nuclear weapons in Ukraine, stressing that consequences would be severe. Jens Stoltenberg, NATO Secretary General, announced on Thursday the alliance will keep a close eye on Russia’s coming nuclear exercise, according to Reuters reporting. Russia holds annual nuclear capability exercises dubbed Grom which […]

Brussels, (Brussels Morning)- La Cafèt’ in the Roodebeek Park in Woluwe-Saint-Lambert is a temporary project that is due to end on 15 November. However, manager Michel Poniris wants to make it a permanent space, but there is no response from the municipality. “Kids want to celebrate their birthday here, but I still can’t give them […]

Brussels, (Brussels Morning)- The average renovation cost to renovate a home in the Brussels region in a climate-friendly way is more than 45,000 euros, according to a study by the University of Ghent for technology federation Agoria. Six out of ten homeowners in Brussels can afford the necessary renovations to their own home. But the […]

Belgium, (Brussels Morning Newspaper) “Today is the best day in my life because today I sent my message of hope to the world.” These were the words of Rahaf, 15. Along with her friends from Gaza,  Malak (14) and Yara (13), all three of them Palestine refugees, she travelled to Belfast to meet Magdalena (12) and Julie […]

Belgium, (Brussels Morning Newspaper) The STOXX Europe 600 index continued to drop on Thursday morning, on the path to the seventh consecutive day of decline. The index dropped roughly 0.5% on Thursday morning and approximately 4.3% in the last six days, largely due to decline in real estate and technology stocks, according to Reuters reporting. […]

Belgium, (Brussels Morning) Reforms in the transport sector could cut the EU’s oil dependency for vehicles by 13% and save European citizens 63 billion euros on their bills per year, new research conducted by Greenpeace Central and Eastern Europe suggests. Greenpeace EU’s calculations come as diesel fuel shortages and cuts to oil production announced by […]

Belgium, (Brussels Morning Newspaper) The European Commission approved Slovakia’s aid scheme worth 10 million euro to support food production. In a statement released on Wednesday, the EC pointed out that it approved the aid scheme under the Temporary Crisis Framework adopted in March this year and amended in July. Margrethe Vestager, European Commissioner for Competition, […]

Brussels, (Brussels Morning)- In order to free up more places for vulnerable groups such as minors, women and families in the saturated reception network, State Secretary for Asylum and Migration Nicole de Moor (CD&V) wants asylum seekers with a long-term employment contract to leave the network. She has ordered Fedasil, the federal agency responsible for […]