It’s been more than seven years since Belgium’s worst ever peacetime attack. In March of 2016 an islamic state terror cell carried out twin bombings at the Brussels airport alongside a third on the Metro. A court Tuesday convicted six men of murder and two others of terrorism charges, including French citizen Salah Abdeslam and Belgian-Moroccan Mohamed Abrini – both already sentenced to life in jail by France for the Paris attacks in 2015. FRANCE 24’s Peter O’Brien tells us more.
The amount falls short of the EUR10.1bn asked for by the United Nations in a humanitarian appeal.
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The European Commission unveiled on Wednesday a series of legislative proposals to reform the EU’s fiscal rules.
The proposals will cost EUR1.1 billion.
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A burgeoning row between France and Germany fired by differences over nuclear energy and combustion engines threatens to spill over into a gathering of the 27 European Union leaders on Thursday.
Poland and Hungary are once more flagged as the “worst offenders” with the new right-wing coalition governments in Italy and Sweden described as “fast learners”.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky arrived in Brussels on Thursday to rally EU leaders to step up support for his war-ravaged country on the third leg of his European tour, officials said. Follow our liveblog for all the latest developments on the war in Ukraine. All times are Paris time (GMT+1).
It would be Zelenskyy’s second trip abroad since Russia started its invasion on 24 February.
The attack took place on Monday evening in the metro station right below the headquarters of the European Commission.
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