Brussels 23.05.2023 This year’s GMF Brussels Forum recognizes the extraordinary historic parallels between today’s world and the world at the threshold of the World War II in August 1941. Two Transatlantic partners came together to discuss the urgent need for supply of munitions, the “right of all peoples … to see sovereign rights and self-government…
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NATO Stoltenberg attends Coronation
Brussels 06.05.2023 The NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg joined dignitaries from around the world at Westminster Abbey in London on Saturday, May 6, 2023, for the Coronation of His Majesty King Charles III and Her Majesty The Queen Consort. (Image above: social media) https://twitter.com/NATOpress/status/1654822152183373824?s=20 His Majesty King Charles III has trained and served alongside military…
BRAFA 2023: encounter with masterpieces
Brussels 27.01.2023 The Brussels Antique Art Fair (BRAFA) welcomes collectors and art lovers from January 29th to February 5th, 2023, at Brussels Expo in Art Nouveau style setting The theme has been chosen as a sign of appreciating of Volume Architecture association, celebrating this year 20 years of collaboration with the BRAFA. The Fair is…
Estonia indignent over Putin’s remarks
Brussels 11.06.2022 President Vladimir Putin paid tribute to Tsar Peter the Great (pictured) on the 350th anniversary of his birth, drawing a parallel between what he portrayed as their twin historic quests to win back Russian lands. Estonia summons Russian envoy to protest Putin remarks https://t.co/ftEnoxgpXE pic.twitter.com/3yYazoEd48 — Reuters (@Reuters) June 10, 2022 “Peter the…
#SOTEU: Photo reportage Strasbourg Plenary
Strasbourg 15.09.2021 Aleksy Witwicki photo reportage: European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen delivers her state of the union address #SOTEU at the European Parliament Plenary on Wednesday (15 September), outlining the future perspectives for the Commission policies. Von der Leyen, a former German defence minister who took the reins of the EU executive two…
Taliban ceases Helmand RTA media
Brussels 02.08.2021 Militants from the Taliban movement seized the building of the regional state TV and radio center in the city of Lashkar Gah on Monday, August 2, the administrative center of Afghanistan’s Helmand province, TOLOnews television network reports referring to its sources. https://twitter.com/officialpakmp/status/1422277635153989634?s=20 According to TOLOnews, all local media outlets in Helmand province have…
BRAFA Art Fair postponed to 2022
On 1 October 2020, the members of the not-for-profit organisation the Foire des Antiquaires de Belgique (organiser of the BRAFA Art Fair) held an Extraordinary General Meeting during which they decided to postpone the 66th edition of BRAFA to January 2022. The members of the not-for-profit organisation the Foire des Antiquaires de Belgique, organiser of…
Hammond: clarity on customs is top priority
“Britain is leaving the political institutions of the EU; but it is not leaving Europe, and British prosperity is, and always will be, closely bound to European prosperity,” – said Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond, addressing the European Business Summit in Brussels (24/05/2018) – “So Europe’s success – and the success of the Euro as…
#Marine promises #Frexit
Launching the presidential campaign this weekend in Lyon – France second biggest city and major centre for banking, chemical, pharmaceutical, and biotech industries – the leader of Front National Marine Le Pen promised to organise a referendum on the European Union membership, following the UK example. "Si l'UE ne se soumet pas, alors je…
New Year 2017: Brussels fireworks
The city of Brussels is going to celebrate the New Year 2017 with public fireworks, however the use of fireworks by private persons is prohibited by the General police regulation. Part 2 of the general police regulation of Brussels is about dangerous activities in public places. Article 33 states: it is forbidden in public spaces…
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