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Since Brussels’ winter shelters have closed, hundreds of transmigrants – people passing through Belgium on their way to somewhere else – have been living in North Station.
A unique event in Brussels this weekend invites Europeans, young and old, to share the objects that help them tell their own stories of migration.
Federal justice minister Jam Jambon (N-VA) and migration secretary Theo Francken were in London on Tuesday meeting the British home secretary and prime minister.
An estimated 10,000 people marched through Brussels on Sunday in a "human wave for solidarity and humanity" towards migrants.
The Belgian interior ministry has begun paying a private security firm to patrol motorway service areas in search of migrants attempting to board trucks bound for the UK.
One of the world’s leading newspapers, The New York Times, has referred to Belgian migration secretary Theo Francken as “the Flemish Trump”.
The prime minister will not return to parliament during the holiday recess to discuss the issue of the migrants sent back to Sudan who say they were tortured, according to Brecht Vermeulen (N-VA)
Violence and precarious living conditions are behind the majority of migrants’ medical complaints, said Médecins du Monde on Monday.
Brussels-City will open a reception centre for transmigrants next Monday, city councillor Karine Lalieux (PS) told BX1 TV today.
