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Local and global news from the capital of Europe
- The Dutch Government no longer sees the 'fear of being mobilised' as a legitimate reason to grant Russians asylum status.
- Today marks two years of the war in Tigray, Ethiopia. Since then, more than 600,000 people have died, making it the deadliest conflict currently taking place.
- Prime minister Sophie Wilmès received a cold reception from staff at the Saint Peter hospital in Brussels yesterday on an official visit, when staff formed a reception committee and turned their backs on her arrival.
- VUB university said that it was ending a collaboration with China's Confucius Institute after its director was banned from entering Belgium over spying accusations.
- "There is no other situation worldwide where six million people are under siege for almost two years." One in five people in Tigray depend on humanitarian aid.
- The latest issue of The Brussels Times Magazine is out. Follow the link and subscribe now to a special offer and enjoy the magazine and all online content: brusselstimes.com/join The European Union may be a peace project, but it is now - reluctantly – rearming, with guns made
- "Like many people new to Brussels, I expected to stay a few years. But one thing led to another. And now I’ve been living in this unruly, messy city for almost 35 years."
- “It seems unique to us that citizens – alongside the likes of Bill Gates and Prince Harry and Meghan, via their foundations – can fund vaccines for the less fortunate.”
- Four demonstrators and two police officers were injured. Several police vehicles were also damaged. brusselstimes.com/belgium/196545…
- Relentless grey: Brussels has seen just six hours of sunshine in December
- The events of January 1968 shocked Belgium. In Leuven, French-speaking students and professors were told to leave the University because it was located in the officially Dutch-speaking part of Belgium.
- Belgium's Kurds call on EU to act for the release of Abdullah Öcalan
- "If you’re bored of Belgium you’re bored of life. Few countries pack so much culture, history, fine food, world-class cities and endearing weirdness into such a small place."
