By Martin Banks It is one of the biggest rivalries in Belgian football and Brussels’ two football clubs are all set to again lock horns in, arguably, the country’s biggest game of the season.
1787: Delegates gather in Philadelphia to draw up the Constitution of the United States 1796: English country doctor Edward Jenner administers his revolutionary cowpox-based vaccine for smallpox in Berkeley, Gloucestershire 1804: Meriwether Lewis and William Clark’s expedition sets out from St. Louis for the Pacific Coast, commissioned by Thomas Jefferson 1853: Land surveyor, newspaper publisher, and […]
Greece’s representative Akylas has stormed into the Grand Final of Eurovision 2026 after a powerful and energetic performance in the First Semi-Final at the Wiener Stadthalle.
Affordable and sustainable housing in the European Union will be discussed at the Informal Ministerial Meeting on Housing, taking place on 11 and 12 May in Nicosia under the Cyprus Presidency of the Council of the European Union.
A decision by the Council of State rejecting a complaint by one of two consortiums that bid for the second phase of the Faliro Bay revamp paves the way for one of the Greek capital’s most ambitious reconstruction projects to get back underway.
1787: The First Fleet, headed by Arthur Phillip, sets sail with 11 ships of convicts for Botany Bay, Australia [1] 1830: The Republic of Ecuador is founded with Juan José Flores as president 1940: Winston Churchill says “I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat” in his first speech as Prime Minister […]
By Martin Bankd Thousands of people visited EU institutions on Saturday (9 May) to mark the 76th anniversary of the Schuman Declaration. This is the historic speech by French foreign minister Robert Schuman in 1950 which paved the way for European integration. It is the date most see as the start of what was to later become the EU. Europe Day, […]
US President Donald Trump has said the month-long ceasefire between the US and Iran is on “massive life support”. He told reporters in the Oval Office on Monday that while the ceasefire remained in place, it was “unbelievably weak”. Following Trump’s comments, Iranian parliamentary speaker Mohammad Ghalibaf wrote on X that Iran’s armed forces were, […]
Foreign direct investment in Greece reached a record high in 2025, according to data released by the OECD, totaling $12.8 billion, by far the highest level in the past 20 years.
1789: William Wilberforce makes his first major speech on abolition in the UK House of Commons, reasoning the slave trade morally reprehensible and an issue of natural justice 1940: Nazi blitzkrieg and conquest of France begins with German forces crossing the Muese River 1943: Axis forces in North Africa surrender 1949: The Soviet Union lifts […]
