The well-known Van der Valk hotel along the E17 in Nazareth-De Pinte, Flanders, will soon be repurposed: the building will become a European return center for asylum seekers. Interestingly, the restaurant will remain open as usual. “Brunch, lunch, and dinner: we’ll keep serving those,” says manager Thomas Torrekens in a statement to the Belgian newspaper Het Nieuwsblad.
Erdogan handed out unusual gifts following the NATO summit in Ankara.
Op een persmoment van Donald Trump en Volodymyr Zelensky, die de Amerikaanse president verkeerdelijk aansprak als Poetin, maakte de Oekraïense president duidelijk dat er geen denken aan is dat hij naar Moskou zou reizen op uitnodiging van Vladimir Poetin.
The June heat wave caused an exceptionally high excess mortality rate in Belgium: 47.8 percent, accounting for 1,747 additional deaths. According to Sciensano, the Belgian National Institute for Public Health, this is the highest mortality rate during a heat wave since records began in 2000.
U.S. President Donald Trump has told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that the United States will grant Ukraine permission to manufacture its own Patriot air defense systems to defend itself against Russian attacks.
No seaside resort in Belgium is more fashionable than Knokke, just across the border with the Netherlands, but its status as a fashionable seaside resort is increasingly threatened by the disturbances caused mainly by young people from Brussels and northern France.
During the NATO summit in Ankara, Donald Trump once again caused tensions by stating that Greenland should be “under the control of the United States” rather than Denmark. In doing so, the U.S. president reignited a long-standing and highly sensitive issue, just as the alliance is already under pressure from discussions about defense spending, Iran, and the division of roles between Europe and the U.S.
Marine Le Pen is, in principle, eligible to run for the 2027 French presidential election after an appeals court upheld her conviction in the case involving the misuse of European Parliament funds but reduced the ban on her eligibility to run for office.
According to the Estonian public broadcaster ERR News, Estonia is fed up with Russian influence on its territory and has issued an ultimatum to the Orthodox Church.
Fear of an imminent Russian threat appears to be growing in many countries. And this is also translating—primarily due to some pressure from U.S. President Trump—into increased defense spending. Following the NATO summit in Ankara with the leaders of the 32 NATO Member States, the Ukrainian president warns that Russia could indeed attack a NATO country in the near future.