Sources: Xinhua
Federal police fire tear gas and water cannon at over 80,000 demonstrators in Brussels, Belgium, protesting against Prime Minister Bart De Wever's proposed austerity laws which would cut pensions, unemployment benefits, and healthcare systems in an attempt to lower national debt. 2025-10-14
The European Union deprives Hungary of its ability to host the next set of foreign and defense ministry meetings as a "symbolic signal" against Viktor Orbán's uncoordinated meetings in Russia and China, moving the ministry meetings from Budapest, Hungary, to Brussels, Belgium. 2024-07-23
Belgium reports its first cases of the Lineage B.1.617 variant in a group of Indian nursing students who travelled from Paris. 2021-04-22
Belgium expels five far-right Danish activists associated with Rasmus Paludan, ahead of a planned Quran burning event in Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, Brussels. The area has a large Muslim community and it was feared that the Quran burning could spark civil unrest. Asylum Secretary Sammy Mahdi said the group is a "serious threat to public order". 2020-11-12
Belgian politicians, including those from the dissident Wallonia region, agree on Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement language that addresses Walloon concerns. This ends the deadlock on CETA, though the revised text must again be approved by the other 27 EU member states. 2016-10-27
Six people are arrested in Belgium including:Mohamed Abrini, wanted in connection with the 2015 Paris attacks, is arrested in Belgium. 2016-04-8
A prison in Bruges, Belgium, will euthanise serial rapist and murderer Frank Van Den Bleeken on January 11. 2015-01-3
Spanish protesters known as the "Indignants" begin a march from Madrid to Brussels in Belgium to protest at cuts in government expenditure in Spain. 2011-07-27
The United States and other western nations including Britain, Sweden, Australia, Belgium, Uruguay and Spain walk out of the United Nations General Assembly following claims by the President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that the "majority of the American people as well as most nations and politicians around the world" say that the 9-11 attacks were the work of the Government of the United States trying to protect Israel. 2010-09-23
Belgium's King Albert accepts the resignation of Prime Minister Yves Leterme, ending his government's term and leading to early elections in June 2010. 2010-04-26