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16 November 2014 03:29

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De Wever re-elected as Nationalist Party Chairman

15/11/2014 • 18:03

Bart De Wever has won a resounding victory in the Flemish Nationalist Party N-VA’s leadership election. The Mayor of Antwerp won 90.76% of the votes cast. The result of the postal ballot was made public by the party’s executive council on Saturday afternoon.

Happy birthday "Gazette van Detroit"

15/11/2014 • 17:24

Black Peters are hard at work in Saint Nicholas' House

15/11/2014 • 17:30

E-cigarettes help smokers to give up

15/11/2014 • 17:08

Bomb next to busy railway line defused

15/11/2014 • Update 12:56

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Fitch rating unchanged but with worse outlook

15/11/2014 • 15:30

The global ratings agency Fitch has confirmed Belgium’s AA status. However, our country’s outlook has been changed from “stable” to “negative”. Fitch published its new ratings on Friday. The main reason Fitch gives for its negative outlook prediction is that Belgium has made too little progress in reducing the budget deficit.

Prime Minister calls for greater discretion

15/11/2014 • 14:39

The Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel (Francophone liberal) has asked minister in the Federal Government to stop debating matters not set out in the coalition agreement in public. In recent days there has been much discussion about capital gains tax.

Top stories

15/11 Bomb next to busy railway line defused

14/11 Doubling in home-jackings

15/11 Police identify rioting dock workers

15/11 De Wever re-elected as Nationalist Party Chairman

15/11 Indians offer than 100,000 dollars for Boon

15/11 Prime Minister calls for greater discretion

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Indians offer than 100,000 dollars for Boon

15/11/2014 • 13:50

The Indian hockey club Dabang Mumbai has set its sights on the star attacker of Belgium’s men’s international hockey team Tom Boon. The 24-year-old Brussels-born player currently plays his club hockey for Bloemendaal in the Netherlands.

Police identify rioting dock workers

15/11/2014 • 12:51

Police in Brussels have so far managed to identify around 10 dockworkers that were involved in the ugly scenes that followed the national demonstration against the government’s austerity measures.

Royal family celebrates King’s Day

15/11/2014 • 12:19

The Belgian Royal Family has attended a Te Deum in Brussels Cathedral to celebrate King’s Day. Queen Paola, Princess Astrid, Prince Lorenz and Princess Claire were among those in attendance at the Te Deum Mass.

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• Black Peters are hard at work in Saint Nicholas' House
• Happy birthday "Gazette van Detroit"
• E-cigarettes help smokers to give up
• Yvan Mayeur: “Riots are Bart De Wever’s fault”
• Pilot whales sighted off Blankenberge!

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Meet Belgium's Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp!

14/11/2014 • 09:58

The Ebola crisis has put Belgium's Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITM) in Antwerp in the spotlight. The Institute is one of the key actors in the coordination of Belgium's response to the crisis, but the ITM also plays an important role in public health in Belgium and abroad and is a leading centre of research and learning for students from the four corners of the globe.

The tower that never was...

14/11/2014 • 12:48

The STAM museum in Ghent has launched 'Expo: models' - a brand new exhibition that concentrates on models and sheds fresh light on the monuments that embellish our country.

Yvan Mayeur: “Riots are Bart De Wever’s fault”

14/11/2014 • 16:13

14/11/14 - The Mayor of Brussels Yvan Mayeur has accused his colleague, the Mayor of Antwerp, Flemish nationalist leader, Bart De Wever of being responsible for last week's riot in the capital because he failed to stop drunken port workers from boarding the train to Brussels.

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"It gets a little too emotional for some people"

14/11/2014 • 11:07

Enthusiasm on government benches to change the name of Antwerp Province to Central Brabant has met with a somewhat lukewarm response from Flemish opposition parties.

Doubling in home-jackings

14/11/2014 • 12:22

The number of home-jackings in Belgium has doubled in only four years’ time. Figures published by the daily La Dernière Heure show that 226 home-jackings occurred in Belgium during the first six months of the year.

Belgian blue to be rolled out across China?

14/11/2014 • 16:18

14/11/14 - At cattle farm outside Beijing farmers are experimenting with the Belgian blue cattle breed. Last year Belgium supplied thousands of doses of sperm free of charge. The first group of calves that is the result of this crossbreeding appears to be a success.

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Sports

• Indians offer than 100,000 dollars for Boon
• Substitutes win it for the Belgians
• Anderlecht crowned "autumn champions"
• It's a goal! No, it isn't!
• Arsenal v Anderlecht: yet another stunner!

naar overzicht

Brussels

• Brussels adopts youth employment stimulus package
• Free internet in 50 Brussels taxis
• Fare increases on Brussels public transport
• Lucas Straetmans: set to take the Belgian fashion world by storm?
• Improvements to Brussels bus and metro services

Culture

• The tower that never was...
• Filip Claeys chosen as Chef of the Year
• 1,000 voices in an impressive setting
• I Love Techno goes from strength to strength
• The Night of the Proms, a classic combination

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Life

• Old-timers victim of explosion
• Faith and politics banned from hairdressing salons!
• Woman found with 55,500 euro in her stomach
• New arrivals on their way at Planckendael
• "I don't have the habit of kissing people I don't know very well"

Health & Environment

• "Electric cars as polluting as cars running on petrol"
• Airline passenger not infected with Ebola
• Suspected Ebola sufferer taken to hospital
• Good-looking but vulnerable
• Warmest 'All Saints Day' in more than a century

Economy

• Fitch rating unchanged but with worse outlook
• Bad news for Volvo Cars Ghent
• "Belgium is a tax haven"
• "0.9% economic growth for Belgium in 2014 and 2015"
• A strong third quarter for bpost

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