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The number of languages spoken in Brussels is constantly on the rise.
Senator Rik Daems wants the benefits granted to the long-term unemployed to be paid out in return for mandatory community service.
The security service in charge of protecting ministers and heads of state against potential attacks is to be scrapped, De Morgen and Het Laatste Nieuws report.
The Conference of Presidents of the House of Commons has approved the scrapping of severance pay for MPs who voluntarily leave their post.
Citing his own country’s experience as the first place in the world where chemical weapons were used in a conflict nearly 100 years ago, Belgian prime minister Elio Di Rupo decried the recen
Only 1,775 people have obtained Belgian citizenship this year, it appears from figures released yesterday by MP Carina Van Cauter (pictured).
Belgium's deputy prime minister Joëlle Milquet joined cabinet ministers from more than a dozen European countries at Rome’s Palazzo Chigi yesterday in a show of support for Italy's first bla
Australia’s new minister for finance, Mathias Cormann, was actually born in Belgium and only learnt English in his twenties, several Belgian media were quick to report.
