Organisation: Flanders

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TERROR ATTACKS: Brussels lockdown continues as police hunt for two terrorists

Shopping centres and public transport were the most likely targets of terrorists planning attacks on Brussels, Belgium’s prime minister Charles Michel said as he announced the city’s lockdown would remain in force today.

Mon, 23 Nov, 2015

History woven by the finest of threads

“Of the many arts, one surpasses all. For the maiden seated at her work flashes the smooth balls and thousand threads into the circle. And from this, her amusement makes as much profit as a man earns by the sweat of his brow. The issue is a fine web which feeds the pride of the whole globe and shows grandly round the throats and hands of Kings.”

Thu, 25 Oct, 2012

Belgian voters polls apart

BELGIUM could be in for a long summer of negotiations before its new government is formed, following a potentially divisive election in which two parties of the right and left received the most votes.

Mon, 14 Jun, 2010

Voters ponder Belgian break-up as polls open

Belgians are going to the polls today in general elections that are widely seen as a vote on an orderly break-up of a country where 6.5 million Dutch and four million French-speakers are locked in a quarrelsome union.

Sun, 13 Jun, 2010