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Promoted Don’t ignore the people: The WHO and the EU must listen to consumers on tobacco harm reduction By Alberto Gomez Hernandez, Policy Manager at the World Vapers' Alliance. An Economics graduate ...
Befimmo is Belgium’s largest non-listed office real estate company and owns approximately 850,000 square meters of office space across the country. In 2006, the Belgian government sold 62 buildings to ...
This involved much gentrification of the main route through the town, trees being planted, wildlife access improved, and state-of-the-art tram stops (easy access for the disabled and mothers with baby ...
Just like everything else in Belgium, prostitution is a complicated topic. With different rules in different parts of the country, and no clear message on what is and what isn’t allowed, a lot of ...
Van Peteghem, two metres tall, lean, bespectacled and smartly dressed in a crisp white shirt, cuts an imposing figure. He has arrived a little late for our meeting, but, apologising, manages to cover ...
Between 1945 and 1978, Belgian socialists acted under one banner, peaking in 1954 with 37.34% of the national vote. But disagreements inside the party began to emerge, particularly on language and ...
On a scale of a Mesopotamian ziggurat, it has to be seen to be believed. The gargantuan complex looms from a hill over the old city and is thought to have inspired Adolf Hitler’s madcap Germania plans ...
While the station has been the subject of unqualified headlines calling it ‘the most dangerous station in Europe’, the Midi Quarter is in urgent need of revitalisation, finding itself landlocked on ...
This week, Liverpool FC are back in Brussels for only the second time since the deadly Heysel Stadium Disaster on 29 May 1985 – where 39 football fans were killed because of fan trouble caused by ...
In the spring, as the coronavirus pandemic reached Belgium and health care workers triaged and treated the throngs of patients sickened by the novel virus, stacks of files began piling up on Jan ...
And as government officials had their eyes locked on health care and the economy and citizens, retreating indoors, witnessed an unknown virus upend their everyday lives, Willems and his colleagues saw ...
The nickname "Atomic Boy" came as a joke but stuck as a brand. "Better than having my name attached to a corruption scandal or a tax," he winks, recounting the interview of Mathieu Buxant on Bel RTL – ...