Serbian students participating in ultramarathon arrive in Brussels
A group of 21 students who started an almost 2,000 kilometre ultramarathon from Novi Sad in Serbia on Friday have arrived at their final destination – Brussels.
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May 13, 2025 Bach and baroque come to Brussels
By Martin Banks For the second consecutive year, the association Ars in Cathedrali is offering a series of four organ concerts dedicated exclusively to Johann Sebastian Bach.
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EUROPE
May 10, 2025 Merz in Brussels: 30-day ceasefire in Ukraine possible within days, decision lies with Moscow
Ukraine agreed to a 30-day ceasefire proposed by US mediators in Saudi Arabia in March, but so far Russia has refused to sign, instead presenting counter demands.
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EUROPE
May 3, 2025 Brussels sticks to €650bn defence spending estimate despite slow uptake of offered fiscal leeway
The €650 billion estimate it put forward in March, the Commission’s spokesperson said on Friday, “is a ballpark figure, it’s based on a set of assumptions”.
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EUROPE
April 23, 2025 Spring art comes to Brussels
By Martin Banks Imagined landscapes and dreamlike maps, heart warming painting, detours into design and architecture… it’s hard to know where to look this spring.
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EUROPE
April 13, 2025 UK defence industry calls for quick security pact with Brussels to access EU money
One instrument the Commission has proposed to ramp up defence spending across the EU, worth €150 billion, would largely exclude British suppliers.
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EUROPE
March 21, 2025 Brussels rebrands ‘Rearm Europe’ plan after backlash from leaders of Italy and Spain
The new term, “Readiness 2030,” is a direct response to the complaints voiced by Giorgia Meloni and Pedro Sánchez in recent days.
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CYPRUS
February 6, 2025 Cyprus President travels to Brussels to participate in informal EU leaders’ retreat
Cyprus President Nikos Christodoulides will travel to Brussels on Sunday evening to participate in the informal European Council retreat to take place Monday.
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EUROPE
January 9, 2025 Armenia mulls talks with Brussels to launch EU bid
Amid a growing rift with former ally Russia, Armenia has passed a bill calling for the country to submit an application to begin EU membership talks with Brussels.
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ECONOMY
December 19, 2024 Brussels sounds alarm over five areas of the Greek economy
The European Commission has placed Greece in the same group of countries as Sweden, Germany and the Netherlands, but that is not good news. It is the group of nine eurozone countries in which the Commission’s “Alert Mechanism” identified macroeconomic imbalances. In-depth assessments will follow on whether these imbalances have worsened or are being corrected.
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