#Belgium will deliver 30 of its F-16 fighters to #Ukraine by 2028, Foreign Minister Hadja #Lahbib announced on Tuesday in La Matinale de Bel RTL. The first planes should already be delivered "by the end of the year".
This commitment will be formalized in an agreement which will be signed this Tuesday in #Brussels on the occasion of the visit to the capital of Ukrainian President Volodymyr #Zelensky.
26 May 1602: b. Philippe de Champaigne #otd in #Brussels - he would become a painter & future founder member of the Académie de peinture et de sculpture in #Paris.
Here he is 1668 painted by his nephew Jean-Baptiste de Champaigne
#I know #Russia doesn't have the numbers necessary to do a strategic breakthrough,” Christopher #Cavoli told reporters after a meeting of the alliance’s defense chiefs at #NATO headquarters in #Brussels
“They don't have the skill and the capability to do it, to operate at the scale necessary to exploit any breakthrough to strategic advantage," said the #US general, but added: "They do have the ability to make local advances and they have done some of that”
Filing this one away for the next time I hear someone say “you could never fit LRT on this street!” (side note: #Brussels has a brilliant tram system). #transit#urbanism#cities
Most pedestrian streets that I’ve seen just close off the street to vehicles and they’re done. Nothing wrong with that. But Boulevard Anspach in #Brussels has gone a step further and added trees, wildflower gardens, planters and rain gardens. Looks great!
A generation ago, Hungarians turned out en masse in their capital of #Budapest to joyfully shed the grip of the Soviet Union.
But fast forward to today: #Hungary has emerged—in the view of Washington and #Brussels—as the biggest troublemaker inside #NATO, with moves such as opposing sanctions against #Russia for its war on Ukraine and delaying #Sweden’s entry into the Atlantic alliance.
Spokesman of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Maria #Zakharova threatens a retaliatory strike if the Crimean bridge is attacked with Western support.
"I would like again to warn #Washington, #London, #Brussels that any aggressive actions against #Crimea are not only doomed to fail, but will also be met with a blow of retaliation that will be crushing,"
I have the #Wikipedia page "Lijst van Stolpersteine in het Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest" in the #Netherlands WP, and it's missing at least one #Stolperstein.
I don't feel comfortable adding the data there, as I don't understand the language.
Does someone - ideally from #Brussels / #Bruxelles in #Belgium - feel comfortable adding the details in the correct table, if I can provide a photo and the details?
#Brussels has raided the offices of a Chinese security equipment supplier, deploying new anti-foreign subsidy powers in a move that will further inflame tensions between the trading superpowers ahead of a planned visit by President #Xi Jinping to Europe.
The raid by the European Commission and local law enforcement on the local offices in #Poland and the #Netherlands of #Nuctech, which manufactures products such as airport, seaport and baggage security scanners
"The report showed that improvements in #AirQuality between 2019 and 2022 from lowering motor vehicle pollution – even before the expansion of the #ULEZ throughout the capital since August – rivalled the potential savings from entirely cleaning up #London’s aviation or industrial and commercial heat and power generation."
"#Antwerp was the first city to set up a zone in 2017. This was followed by #Brussels, and then #Ghent. Like #London’s ultra-low emission zone (#ULEZ), and more than 320 schemes across Europe, the Belgian zones are designed to improve air pollution by deterring the most polluting vehicles from driving on city streets (generally the oldest diesels)."
In these cities, #AirPollution has decreased faster than in cities without low emissions zones.