Roughly 40 Delhaize, 15 Carrefour and 5 Spar stores were hit overnight as attackers remotely pushed refrigeration units to 50 degrees Celsius, part of a wave that struck grocers in at least 11 European countries and prompted the European Commission to call for collective cyber resilience.
The socialists walked away from the table Thursday night, leaving Prime Minister Bart De Wever to scale back his ambitions to a smaller package built around 4 billion euros in healthcare cuts and targeted VAT increases, with an end of October deadline now in serious doubt.
Proximus heads one of four groups chosen for Brussels' sovereign cloud program, as the EU's digital chief pushes American tech giants from promises toward enforceable guarantees that no government can pull a kill switch on European data.
After a ministerial session with Belgian counterparts, Turkey's foreign minister spent his three day visit meeting NATO's Mark Rutte and the EU's Kaja Kallas, with talks ranging from the Black Sea to Libya's maritime claims and the war in Ukraine.
Annelies Verlinden's office is pushing back on any suggestion of a conflict of interest after it emerged her long-term partner worked at a law firm that advised Sopra Steria throughout its bid for the i-Police contract, a project that cost taxpayers nearly 76 million euros before it was scrapped.
The expanded programme opens on 6 December with a public marathon at the Pyramids of Giza, followed by Patient Advocacy Day on 7 December, supported by Sanofi, and university masterclasses on 8 Decem…
Foreign, justice and interior ministers from both countries met at Brussels' Egmont Palace on Tuesday, their first joint session of this kind in ten years, agreeing a new police cooperation plan as Belgium's top diplomat called Turkey indispensable to European security.
Sabina Farruku - When Success Means Bringing Other Women Along Sabina Farruku is an entrepreneur who measures success by more than numbers. For the founder of Red Line Cosmetics, success also means i…
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On 17 October 2026, a regional Bulgarian airport will make an unusually international pitch. Gorna Oryahovitsa Airport is hosting Aviation Day 2026, bringing aviation demonstrations, aircraft, techno…
In a letter to Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, the Italian prime minister says EU spending limits leave too little room to shield households and businesses from oil and gas prices driven up by the Middle East conflict.
A 918 million euro contract for the Norwegian built NASAMS system was signed through the Netherlands on Belgium's behalf, with the Belgian Air Force set to lease an interim system from 2027 while the full order is delivered.
Vienna, Milan, Paris, Prague, St Petersburg – the Operngala-Nacht on 2 November 2026 travels the continent’s great musical capitals with the Filharmonie Brno. Few art forms carry Europe’s shared hist…
Austria, Czechia, Hungary, Slovakia and Poland are pushing Brussels to soften the EU's emissions trading rules for steel, cement and chemicals makers, warning that without more flexibility, production will simply move outside Europe.
The European Commission has approved one payment but delayed a second, larger tranche, telling Kyiv that a list of unfinished laws on everything from prosecutor discipline to parcel duties needs to move before more money can follow.
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Euroclear, the Brussels based clearing house, sits on roughly 185 billion euros in immobilised Russian assets, and Prime Minister Bart De Wever says seizing that money for a reparations loan risks killing the arrangement that already funnels billions to Kyiv.
European luxury has long been guarded by a handful of heritage names — which makes the rise of Dorota Goldpoint, a Polish designer building her house from outside that establishment, worth watching.&…
The European Commission has designated the three services under the Digital Services Act after each passed 45 million monthly EU users, giving them until the end of the year to start policing systemic risks or face fines of up to 6 percent of global revenue.
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A robotics showcase in Brussels put walking, waving machines in front of lawmakers as Europe weighs automation as one answer to its shrinking, ageing workforce.
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Foreign Minister Maxime Prevot says he will call in Ambassador Bill White again after an Instagram post mocking Frank Vandenbroucke over Belgium's new alcohol advertising health warning, the second such summons this year.
The company, founded in 2021, will use the funding to scale up production of LoCylia, a mycoprotein made through fermentation that it is positioning for blended meat products and pet food alike.
The Dutch retail platform is rolling out bol.checkout to independent Belgian online stores, letting shoppers pay with their existing bol account instead of typing in address and card details again.
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Health authorities say at least 306 people have fallen ill after eating eggs from a producer in Geel, with contaminated batches having reached supermarket shelves in Belgium, Luxembourg and beyond.
Jean Spinette says he wants the same judicial police resources given to Antwerp, after a run of shootings tied to drug gang rivalries left Brussels South police warning that an innocent bystander will eventually be hit.
The European Commission is strengthening ACER just as Germany and its grid operators resist giving the agency more say over Europe's electricity network, setting up a fight that will run into 2027.
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