Belgium

Brussels "deserves policies that go beyond the tactical games of low politics," David Leisterh says in resigning as lead negotiator.

Notorious German bureaucracy blamed for voters outside the country not receiving absentee ballots in time.

Officials "violently" forced MEPs back onto their aircraft after declaring them persona non grata, the would-be visitors said.

As Ukraine's future hangs in the balance, world and European leaders are rallying around Kyiv.

'Confidential' document details concerted plan to woo Manfred Weber's EPP back to center ground.

Europe is facing a "power vacuum" at a crucial time, new Defense Minister Theo Francken told POLITICO.

Prosecutor Julien Moinil calls out Belgian authorities, saying it's time to "wake up urgently."

More EU leaders, plus Norway and Canada, are expected to attend, 48 hours after previous talks.

Attacks against LGBTQ+ people are becoming “the testing ground for laws that erode democracy itself,” NGO's executive director says.

The attack at the Clemenceau metro station is the latest in a series of violent incidents rocking the city.

Air traffic controllers are joining a national strike to protest Belgium’s budget reform.

Greenlandic parliament calls for snap election for 11 March as ruling party, Siumut, proposes accelerating independence process. This live blog is closedGerman chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Friday that US president Donald Trump was wrong to impose sanctions on the international criminal court (ICC) as it jeopardized an important institution.“Sanctions […]

The globalization of the illicit narcotics trade is hampering investigators — but Brussels needs to score some quick societal wins, says Belgium's drug commissioner after wave of shootings.

“Mafia” shootings with Kalashnikovs trigger alarm in the city as politicians convene an emergency meeting.

Belgian police have launched a hunt for two suspects after gunshots were reported in the early hours of Wednesday outside Clemenceau metro station in the Anderlecht area of Brussels. According to local reports, no one was injured in the shooting which is said to be drug related. Several stations were closed and metro services faced severe delays Europe live […]

Subway had been shut down between European Quarter and Anderlecht during underground manhunt.

A 50th-anniversary release for Chantal Akerman’s meticulous masterpiece, voted the best film of all time by Sight and Sound A woman’s work is never done in Chantal Akerman’s icily deadpan, degree-zero movie from 1975, now on rerelease for its 50th anniversary. Over three hours and 20 minutes, from a sequence of fixed camera positions, it blankly […]

De Wever, a nationalist from Flanders, takes over from Alexander De Croo after seven months of negotiationsConservative Bart De Wever has been sworn in as Belgium’s new prime minister, after striking a hard-fought coalition deal that moves the country to the right.The agreement, struck late on Friday after seven months of negotiations, makes De Wever the […]

They join politicians from Rishi Sunak to Emmanuel Macron in putting their best feet forward.

The coalition government will be led by the conservative New Flemish Alliance party’s Bart De WeverFive Belgian parties struck a coalition deal on Friday to form a new government headed by the Flemish conservative Bart De Wever, after more than seven months of tortuous negotiations.The agreement paves the way for De Wever to become the first nationalist […]

After repeated false starts and breakdowns in talks, the country gets a Flemish-nationalist led coalition.

A gray Volvo with a Dutch number plate had been abandoned outside the Maelbeek metro station, the site of an Islamist terror attack in 2016.

11 countries signed a paper to Ursula von der Leyen warning the move would downgrade Europe's health crisis resiliency.

Paris is joining a growing chorus of countries casting doubt on an EU push to buy more gas from the U.S.

The proposal will not include a blanket prohibition of LNG imports, as scores of EU hawks have been urging.