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At-risk groups show little interest in Covid booster jab: Despite a public awareness campaign targeting over-65s, pregnant women, people with underlying ...
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At-risk groups show little interest in Covid booster jab
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Covid, colds, and flu: Belgium faces 'triple epidemic' this winter: The combination of different winter epidemics presents a high risk that could ...
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Covid, colds, and flu: Belgium faces 'triple epidemic' this winter
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After Covid crisis, Brussels Airport is profitable again: After a disastrous few years as a result of the pandemic and its related travel restrictions ...
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After Covid crisis, Brussels Airport is profitable again
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Record surge in attendance at Brussels' Foire du Midi: For the first time since the Covid pandemic, Brussels' Foire du Midi crosses the one million attendee ...
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Record surge in attendance at Brussels' Foire du Midi
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Breweries: AB InBev is bleeding German beer brands: Brands like Hasseröder and Beck’s no longer play a major role in AB InBev’s plans. The beer giant relies on ...
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Breweries: AB InBev is bleeding German beer brands
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Belgium in Brief: Did Covid-19 measures violate fundamental rights?: How did Belgium handle the pandemic? This is Belgium in Brief.
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Belgium in Brief: Did Covid-19 measures violate fundamental rights?
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Brussels’ last remaining Covid-19 vaccination centre closes its doors: Brussels’ last remaining Covid-19 vaccination centre has closed its doors in the final ...
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Brussels’ last remaining Covid-19 vaccination centre closes its doors
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Post-Covid recovery brings back noise nuisance around Brussels airport: Some 80,000 people live in areas exposed to noise levels of at least 55 decibels
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Post-Covid recovery brings back noise nuisance around Brussels airport
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Calls grow for European tax on banks as profit margins swell: "Banks are much more powerful than before the Covid pandemic thanks to the ECB interest rates ...
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Calls grow for European tax on banks as profit margins swell
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What to do in Brussels this weekend: 17 - 19 February: From being immersed in animated movie screenings to admiring an illuminated city centre and admiring ...
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What to do in Brussels this weekend: 17 - 19 February
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'Balance was lost': Belgium violated fundamental rights with Covid policy: Belgium declared the first Covid-19 lockdown three years ago. "There were a lot ...
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'Balance was lost': Belgium violated fundamental rights with Covid policy
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Belgium drops general face mask obligation in healthcare sector: Healthcare institutions are still free to apply their own rules. If they deem a face mask ...
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Belgium drops general face mask obligation in healthcare sector
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Brussels shared taxi service Collecto to resume after three-year break: Brussels' late-night collective taxi service, Collecto, will resume operations next ...
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Brussels shared taxi service Collecto to resume after three-year break
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Belgium seeks more air traffic controllers as travel takes off: Belgian air navigation and traffic authority Skeyes is on the lookout for potential air traffic ...
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Belgium seeks more air traffic controllers as travel takes off
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Brussels to celebrate New Year with firework display in front of Royal Palace: After two years of coronavirus disruption, Brussels will ring in the New Year with ...
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Brussels to celebrate New Year with firework display in front of Royal ...
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First German states scrap face masks on public transport: Bavaria and Saxony-Anhalt will drop the mask requirement on public transport and other German states ...
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First German states scrap face masks on public transport
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Brussels’ iconic Hotel Métropole finds new buyer: An early victim of the Covid-19 pandemic, the hotel has found a new buyer and will open doors once again in ...
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Brussels’ iconic Hotel Métropole finds new buyer
Quick Glance: The iconic Hotel Métropole in Brussels has a new owner.
  • After more than a century of operation, pedestrian works in central Brussels, road tunnel closures, terror attacks, and the arrival of the Covid-19 pandemic proved too much for the establishment.

  • A major fire breaks out in a Brussels hotel.

  • SA Hotel Métropole and its family shareholders have decided to close the hotel in 2020.

  • Along with the hotel, the new owners are expected to purchase the café and nine commercial units on Rue Neuve.
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Belgian social services staff to strike on Tuesday: The staff of CPAS will strike Tuesday 25 April as they are angry about the shortage of funding and the ...
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Belgian social services staff to strike on Tuesday
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Brussels Airport passenger numbers double in 2022: The airport's latest figures show a strong recovery from pre-pandemic levels. Almost 19 million passengers ...
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Brussels Airport passenger numbers double in 2022
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'Atypical': Belgium heading for second peak in flu epidemic: "A normal flu season counts one peak, now we are heading for number two."
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'Atypical': Belgium heading for second peak in flu epidemic
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Brussels' temporary terraces in parking spots will stay until 2024: Born out of the Covid-19 pandemic, the car park terraces showed how lively the city becomes ...
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Brussels' temporary terraces in parking spots will stay until 2024
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'No reason to panic': Belgium responds to spike in Chinese Covid cases: Belgium has increased its state of alert for coronavirus amid a spike in ...
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'No reason to panic': Belgium responds to spike in Chinese Covid ...
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Francophone culture hit by energy crisis despite Covid-19 recovery: The energy costs of some theatres "have multiplied by three or by four."
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Francophone culture hit by energy crisis despite Covid-19 recovery
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Brussels is a complicated city: To merge the 19 municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region into a single one may be a no-brainer ...
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Brussels is a complicated city
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What changes in Belgium on 1 December?: From changes to higher interest rates, Sodexo vouchers, support for people with a disability and Long Covid ...
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What changes in Belgium on 1 December?
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Brussels tourism continues its slow recovery: As Belgium continues to recover sluggishly from the pandemic, the capital is seeing a recovering hotel sector ...
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Brussels tourism continues its slow recovery
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Covid-19 leading death cause in Brussels in 2020, but not in Belgium: "In the Brussels-Capital Region, Covid-19 was the leading cause of death ...
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Covid-19 leading death cause in Brussels in 2020, but not in Belgium
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All Brussels adults can get autumn Covid-19 booster from Saturday: From Saturday 1 October, Brussels over-18s do not have to wait for an invitation to get ...
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All Brussels adults can get autumn Covid-19 booster from Saturday
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Belgium's flu season peak not expected until early January: Due to Covid-19, the flu virus has also had less of a chance to circulate, resulting in many people's ...
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Belgium's flu season peak not expected until early January
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Belgium's trade deficit grows as gas imports increase: Belgium went from a trade surplus of €16.5 billion in the first eight months of last year to a €6 ...
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Belgium's trade deficit grows as gas imports increase
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Flanders to close all Covid-19 vaccination centres by end of year: The vaccination campaign can be labelled as one of the biggest logistical operations since ...
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Flanders to close all Covid-19 vaccination centres by end of year
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Covid-19 autumn wave continues to grow, more than 100 hospitalisations: More than 100 people are being hospitalised as a result of a Covid-19 infection every day ...
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Covid-19 autumn wave continues to grow, more than 100 hospitalisations
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More Belgians choose to quit jobs for passion projects: "I remember receiving my pension form that told me that I still had to work for 20 years ...
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More Belgians choose to quit jobs for passion projects
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Number of Covid-19 patients in hospital drops below 800: The total number of people infected with the virus in Belgian hospitals has dropped to 790 ...
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Number of Covid-19 patients in hospital drops below 800
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Belgium in Brief: Let the good times roll: Car Free Sunday defied weather forecasts with thousands discovering the city liberated from vehicles ...
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Belgium in Brief: Let the good times roll
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Second boosters for most Brussels adults only available from October: From 1 October, the second boosters will also be made available to all other over-18s who ...
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Second boosters for most Brussels adults only available from October
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Covid-19 cases remarkably lower than November last year: An average of 616 new Covid-19 infections are being recorded per day in Belgium. At this time last year ...
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Covid-19 cases remarkably lower than November last year
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Covid-19 infections decreasing, almost 10 deaths per day: The number of Covid-19 cases and hospitalisations has dropped slightly, however ...
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Covid-19 infections decreasing, almost 10 deaths per day
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Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium welcomed 650,000 visitors last year: The latest figure of 652,249 guests in 2022 represents more than double the 303 ...
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Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium welcomed 650,000 visitors last year
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How inflation impacts people's choice of study: Six out of ten Belgian parents are now advising their children to opt for courses that provide greater financial ...
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How inflation impacts people's choice of study
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Coronavirus booster vaccine now available to all over-18s in Brussels: Every Brussels resident aged 18 and over can now receive their autumn booster dose of the ...
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Coronavirus booster vaccine now available to all over-18s in Brussels
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Daily Covid-19 infections drops below 1,000 for first time since July 2021: This is a 42% decrease from the previous week. The reproduction rate has plummeted to ...
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Daily Covid-19 infections drops below 1,000 for first time since July 2021
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Psychiatrists can prescribe free visits to the museum: Brussels has launched a six-month pilot programme whereby therapists can prescribe museum visits to ...
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Psychiatrists can prescribe free visits to the museum
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New Covid-19 infections drop below 2,000 per day: The short-lived first autumn peak continues to drop, with the number of new infections falling by more than 600 ...
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New Covid-19 infections drop below 2,000 per day
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New Covid-19 wave should not be as high as last year: Covid-19 is still causing issues in the labour market, which is now seeing a 14% increase in absenteeism ...
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New Covid-19 wave should not be as high as last year
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Covid-19 hospitalisations and infections continue to drop: The daily average of new covid-19 infections once again dropped below 1,600 for the first time in over ...
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Covid-19 hospitalisations and infections continue to drop
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Belgian hospitals need 4,700 more full-time staff: The pandemic forced hospitals to massively reduce non-urgent care; a lack of staff now prevents many from ...
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Belgian hospitals need 4,700 more full-time staff
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Gaming industry in Belgium continues to grow: “During the Covid-19 pandemic, more and more people started playing videogames and our market grew ...
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Gaming industry in Belgium continues to grow
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Belgium's new vaccination campaign: Is a fourth dose really necessary?: "What are the advantages, what are the disadvantages?" The Brussels Times sat ...
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Belgium's new vaccination campaign: Is a fourth dose really necessary?
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Brussels hotels rebound in July thanks to summer events: Occupancy rates in Brussels hotels returned to pre-Covid levels in July, with festivals and concerts ...
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Brussels hotels rebound in July thanks to summer events
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Most US public schools plan to keep masks optional for start of classes: Students are heading to another school year amid the Covid-19 pandemic, but this time ...
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Most US public schools plan to keep masks optional for start of classes
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China says COVID-19 epidemic has 'basically' ended: BEIJING (Reuters) -- Health authorities in China said on Thursday the country's COVID-19 ...
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China says COVID-19 epidemic has 'basically' ended
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Brussels 24th 'most liveable' city in global ranking: Brussels has been named one of the 25 "most liveable" cities in the world for the first ...
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Brussels 24th 'most liveable' city in global ranking
Quick Glance: Brussels ranked 24th in global 'most liveable' city ranking
  • Brussels has been named one of the 25 'most liveable' cities in the world for the first time by The Economist magazine.

  • The capital jumped 22 places to 24th in the annual ranking by the Economist Intelligence Unit, with an overall score of 92 out of 100.

  • The study assessed 173 cities worldwide based on factors such as crime, infrastructure, green spaces, culture, and healthcare.

  • Brussels' rise in the global ranking is attributed to the implementation of a 30km/h speed limit on most roads and better use of public space following the coronavirus shutdown, including improved cycling infrastructure.
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Brussels urges residents over-80 to get second booster dose for Covid-19: Following weeks of offering the possibility of a second booster without advertising it ...
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Brussels urges residents over-80 to get second booster dose for Covid-19
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Start of ‘autumn wave’: Almost 1,300 Covid-19 patients in hospital: The total number of people infected with the virus in Belgian hospitals increased from 1 ...
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Start of ‘autumn wave’: Almost 1,300 Covid-19 patients in hospital
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South Korea to scrap COVID test for travelers from China: SEOUL (Reuters) -- South Korea will not require travelers from China to test for COVID-19 upon arrivals ...
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South Korea to scrap COVID test for travelers from China
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Young people in Belgium are driving less than before pandemic: Various elements are pushing young people away from cars, from the risk of accidents to the ...
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Young people in Belgium are driving less than before pandemic
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Belgian health council recommends second Covid booster for all: A second booster dose of the coronavirus vaccine should be offered to all Belgian residents aged ...
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Belgian health council recommends second Covid booster for all
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Coronavirus booster campaign begins today: A new booster vaccination campaign against coronavirus began in Belgium on Monday, starting with the most vulnerable ...
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Coronavirus booster campaign begins today
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Cases rise: Over 1,500 Covid-19 patients in Belgian hospitals: More than 1,500 Covid-19 patients are in hospital as a result of an infection ...
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Cases rise: Over 1,500 Covid-19 patients in Belgian hospitals
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Slight rise in new Covid-19 infections, hospitalisations still decreasing: The number of new Covid-19 cases is slightly on the rise in Belgium ...
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Slight rise in new Covid-19 infections, hospitalisations still decreasing
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Belgium in Brief: It's not what you think: Did you also read the words 'Consultative Committee' in the news this weekend and start panicking slightly? This is ...
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Belgium in Brief: It's not what you think
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Belgium in Brief: Read all about it! Or don't...: Do you feel overwhelmed by the news? More Belgians are choosing to tune out, exhausted by the barrage of ...
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Belgium in Brief: Read all about it! Or don't...
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STIB welcomes a continued rise in passenger numbers: Despite the pandemic, STIB continued its €391.5 million investment, introducing new bus lines ...
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STIB welcomes a continued rise in passenger numbers
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Car inspections and cheaper renovations: What's new in Belgium on 1 August?: Mandatory appointments for car inspections and more expensive speech therapy: Here's ...
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Car inspections and cheaper renovations: What's new in Belgium on 1 ...
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Ryanair make a €170 million profit despite staff stand-offs: The number of passengers is 9% higher compared to what it was before the outbreak of Covid-19.
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Ryanair make a €170 million profit despite staff stand-offs
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Rise in Covid-19 infections and hospitalisations in Belgium: While the number of people infected with Covid-19 or being hospitalised as a result of the virus is ...
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Rise in Covid-19 infections and hospitalisations in Belgium
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Pharmacists can now issue sick notes for children off school due to Covid-19: Previously only GPs could do this. Whether such a certificate can also be used for ...
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Pharmacists can now issue sick notes for children off school due to ...
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All Covid-19 indicators now decreasing in Belgium, including deaths: A total of 1,760 people are in Belgian hospitals due to a Covid-19 infection ...
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All Covid-19 indicators now decreasing in Belgium, including deaths
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Covid-19 cases drop sharply in Belgium, hospitalisations still rising: It must be taken into account that the official number of infections is an underestimation ...
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Covid-19 cases drop sharply in Belgium, hospitalisations still rising
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Coronalert app faces uncertain future: The future of the Coronalert app will be assessed next week, with the app potentially being paused or deleted.
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Coronalert app faces uncertain future
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Over 30,000 visitors attend Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels: The Kunstenfestivaldesarts, which was held for three weeks in the Belgian capital after two years ...
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Over 30,000 visitors attend Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels