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Britain plans to cut mainland Europe off from its supply of North Sea gas should severe supply shortages emerge due to ongoing hostilities with Russia.

Eurocrats in Belgium and Luxembourg have been given an inflation-busting raise despite the EU telling its member states to avoid pumping worker pay to help with the cost of living crisis.

A national strike has crippled the transport infrastructure of Belgium as around 70,000 people took to the street to protest the effects of inflation.

A Syrian migrant is facing ten years in prison after being accused of sexually abusing and impregnating his eight-year-old step daughter.

An elected representative within the European parliament has derided elements within a draft equalities report which he claims will be used by the bloc to push “anti-white racist policies”.

After discovering four positive cases of monkeypox, Belgian health authorities have placed those with confirmed cases of the virus into a 21-day quarantine. As of Sunday, Belgian authorities announced four confirmed cases of the virus and have called on anyone

Dr. David Heymann said the leading theory was sexual transmission among gay and bisexual men at two raves held in Spain and Belgium.

Officials within the European Union are now being drafted into so-called environment-focused “mindfulness” courses to help alleviate their climate crazy anxieties.

Belgian authorities carried out 2,515 age tests on “underage” migrants last year and 69 per cent of results were found to be adults.

A Flemish MEP has warned the EU “does not want free speech” after a European Commission official threatened Elon Musk over his takeover of Twitter.

A Belgian journalist deemed “too white” to interview far-left African-American essayist Angela Davis, required police protection.

Openly gay Belgian MP Gilles Verstraeten has suggested that he is fearful of holding hands with another man in the no-go Brussels suburb of Molenbeek, claiming integration of migrants has been poorly managed. Verstraeten, a member of the centre-right New Flemish

The number of violent incidents in Belgian asylum reception centres has doubled since 2017, with half of the total incidents involving physical or verbal assaults on asylum centre workers or other asylum seekers.

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) – Serbia is seeking explanations from NATO on why its jets have allegedly shadowed Serbian passenger planes flying back from Russia.

Belgium has delayed killing off its use of nuclear power generation over what it called a ‘chaotic geopolitical environment’.

At least six people have been killed after a car was rammed into a large crowd of festival-goers in Belgium on Sunday morning.

Despite tough talk over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the European Union is squabbling internally over whether to include luxury goods and diamonds in sanctions, while there is reluctance on all sides to restrict energy imports.

Govt advisors in Brussels suggested a statue of controversial Belgian King Leopold II should be melted down and turned into a memorial.

A Freedom Convoy scheduled to take place in the de facto capital of the European Union is to go ahead, despite local authorities banning the demonstration.

Brussels — the heartland of the administrative elements of the European Union — has banned a Canada-style Freedom Convoy from entering the city this weekend.

Clubs in Belgium have announced that they will be finally opening their doors again to customers on February 18, whether the country’s government permits them to do so or not.

A socialist politician has criticised the destruction of traditional stores and the ’19th-century’ working conditions of Amazon.

Belgian police detained 13 people from a radical Islamic Salafist-linked group during raids Tuesday across the port city of Antwerp.

Charlotte Bellis, a 35-year-old pregnant New Zealand journalist abandoned in Afghanistan by her own left-wing government due to its coronavirus quarantine rules, said on Saturday she had no alternative but to ask the Taliban for help.

A pregnant journalist who was forced to rely on the Taliban’s charity in Afghanistan has finally been allowed to return home to New Zealand.

An attempt to deport Islamic imam Abdallah Ouahbour, who has been linked to the 2003 Madrid terror attack, was rejected by a Belgian court.

Police in Brussels clashed with protestors during a 50,000 strong demonstration against coronavirus restrictions and mandatory vaccinations.

A Belgian court has jailed the leader of a trafficking operation responsible for the death of at least 15 migrants who were found dead in the back of a lorry on an English industrial estate.

Belgium has stripped the residency permit of the chief imam of the country’s largest mosque Mohamed Toujgani over national security concerns. 

Thousands of people took to the streets of Brussels on Sunday to protest lockdown rules, described by one MEP as ‘draconian and irrational’

Two people were stabbed amid a mass brawl in the Belgian city of Genk on Christmas day that saw Afghans and Turks clash. 

Two Belgian Muslim organisations have appealed to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) to challenge a ban on ritual slaughter.

According to Statbel just half of the babies born in the country in 2020 were born to women of Belgian origin and Belgian nationality. 

The Belgian Federal Prosecutor’s Office has demanded a sentence of at least 15 years for alleged people-trafficker Vo Van Hong, who is accused of being connected to the deaths of 39 people in a truck in southern England in 2019.

Sammy Mahdi, Belgium’s Secretary of State for Asylum and Migration, has stated that up to 70 per cent of “child” migrants submitted for age testing by the government turn out to be adults.

Some 50 illegal immigrants who have occupied a church in Brussels, Belgium, demanding residency have complained that now with winter approaching, the church is too cold for them.