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The hatchet man: Jean Quatremer interviewed

Loath though we are to blow our own trumpet, we at The Bulletin remembered that, back in the early 1970s, we called for a “citizen picnic” on the –not-yet-pedestrianised Grand Place, the pur

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Majority want King to remain on the throne

Several surveys, already published or about to be, indicate that a majority of Belgians want King Albert II to remain on the throne.

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Sport is Great Britain… and Belgium too

It’s Saturday afternoon. There is tension but also hope among the spectators. “Can we win?

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Belgium could end tax break for savings

Belgium’s finance minister, Koen Geens, has called for an end to a popular savings tax break, provoking fierce opposition across the political spectrum, writes