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Former Belgian prime minister Guy Verhofstadt has called on Brussels to renegotiate its ill-conceived contracts with vaccine manufacturers in a video criticising the EUs vaccine rollout.

How Belgian government got caught up in human smuggling Former Belgian state secretary Theo Francken followed a sectarian agenda on Syria - which ended up with a party colleague being found guilty of human smuggling. (Photo: The Council of the European Union) Brussels, 14. Jan, 07:03 Melikan Kucam, a member of the Mechelen city council in Belgium for the Flemish nationalist party New Flemish Alliance (NVA), was sentenced by a court on Tuesday (12 January) to eight years in prison for human smug...

December 30, 2020 European leaders reached a compromise with China on an investment agreement nearly a decade in the making, two days before the new year—the EU’s self-imposed deadline. Earlier today (Dec. 30), European Council president Charles Michel and European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen spoke via videoconference with Chinese president Xi Jinping. They were later joined by French president Emmanuel Macron and German chancellor Angela Merkel. In a statement, the EU said bo...

What we know about the EU’s investment deal with China Quartz 12/30/2020 © Provided by Quartz European leaders reached a compromise with China on an investment agreement nearly a decade in the making, two days before the new year—the EU’s self-imposed deadline. Earlier today (Dec. 30), European Council president Charles Michel and European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen spoke via videoconference with Chinese president Xi Jinping. They were later joined by French president E...