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It is estimated that more than 8,000 French citizens with disabilities currently live in Belgium. For many parents, placing their children in foreign institutions is not so much a choice as the only alternative they have.
Four-fifths of the first-generation Turkish men who came to Europe as guest-workers and ended up settling there lived below an income poverty line.
Immigrants claiming benefits in their European host countries have lesser chances of securing residency permits and citizenship, research shows.
Belgium wants to frame its relationship with Congo, Rwanda and Burundi as one looking into the future – but the past weighs heavily.
Violence in the DRC can be brought to an end if the geographical scope of the conflict is broadened to include all neighbouring countries.
All that remains of the political icon is a tooth, but it represents much more than just a human trophy.
Colonisation, genocide and changes in official languages have resulted in the hybridisation of languages. A mix of Kinyarwanda, French and English is dubbed kinyafranglais.
Lumumba’s death triggered students and created a generation of activists that pushed for total liberation from exploitation and oppression.
For relations with the DRC to truly improve, the Belgian state must acknowledge its historical responsibility more strongly.
Both the Russian and US arsenals boast thousands of nuclear weapons, located in various places around their own countries and, for the US, in Europe as well.
History tells us that neutrality rarely works as a mechanism for preventing conflict.
Dietary guidelines can do a better job clarifying the differences between beneficial and harmful forms of processing.
The world needs to learn to live with the virus. And governments must follow the science and don’t distort it for political expediency.
Trips to their home countries by migrant youth help them create and update their relationship with the countries their families come from.
Covid-19 has raised important questions about the many different ways of belonging to a country: where does the boundary between insiders and outsiders lie and who should be in or out?
The IOC was under considerable pressure to host the 1920 games. While a noble goal, it resulted in significant hardships for war-torn Belgium and the athletes themselves.
Carbon dioxide levels can be a proxy for the amount of airborne coronavirus in a room, but plenty of things can mess with the measurements.
A soldier is on the run after being charged with the attempted murder of the government’s leading pandemic expert.
Multiple incidents prove that borders in Europe are often as clear as mud.
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