Belgium Articles

For everyone in the European parliament, 22 March was an agonising day. On that day, on rightwing blogs I read some extraordinary responses to the Brussels attacks. One hinted we were going to hear all the same responses that we heard after previous atrocities. But to...

A display of compassion on a scale unmatched in British history took place 100 years ago this year, when Britain opened its doors to a quarter of a million refugees from Belgium fleeing the German advance at the start of the first world war. A poll for Refugee Week,...

One of the few centre-left parties in Europe in power, Belgium’s Socialist party, next month faces regional, national and European elections. Socialist party leader and prime minister Elio di Rupo has won credit for his contribution to the country’s political...

The news that Peter Hain has put his weight behind the so-called one-state ‘solution’, is disappointing, coinciding as it does with the first efforts in over three years for Israelis and Palestinians to negotiate the only solution that promises to end this tragic...