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    • Wednesday, 20 September, 2023
      Europe Express
      Diamond industry slams looming sanctions on Russian gems Premium content

      Also in this newsletter: the EU’s future climate commissioner gears up for grilling on his fossil fuel past

      An employee holds a rough diamond at a factory in Moscow,
    • Friday, 15 September, 2023
      Diamonds and gemstones
      G7 governments to announce bans on Russian diamond imports

      Proposals would reshape global market for the precious stones, but implementation will divide industry

      The global natural diamond jewellery market is estimated to be worth $74bn in 2023
    • Wednesday, 13 September, 2023
      Sovereign bonds
      European governments go direct to citizens to fund borrowing

      One of the aims of retail bond sales is to press banks into raising savers’ interest rates

    • Wednesday, 6 September, 2023
      EU energy
      EU must curb Russian gas supply to avoid being ‘held hostage’

      Belgian energy minister warns that bloc should wean itself off fossil fuel imports from Moscow by 2027

      Tinne Van der Straeten
    • Friday, 1 September, 2023
      News in-depthDrug trafficking
      Guns and grenades betray Antwerp’s struggles with rising cocaine trade

      The Belgian port grew rich trading salt and sugar. ‘Now, we’re dealing with another white powder’, says city official

      Customs officers inspect a container at Antwerp port
    • Friday, 18 August, 2023
      Drug trafficking
      Belgium’s drug trafficking ‘even bigger’ problem than terrorism

      Justice minister calls for EU extradition agreements to help catch kingpins

      Justice minister Vincent Van Quickenborne and Blankenberge mayor Bjorn Prasse during a police control on alcohol and drugs in Blankenberge
    • Wednesday, 9 August, 2023
      TUI AG
      Holiday in Belgium, says Tui boss, after scorching summer

      Travel group expects increased demand for vacations in northern Europe and during cooler months

      An aircraft drops water over a fire near Limassol, Cyprus, on Monday
    • Tuesday, 25 July, 2023
      Terrorism
      Six found guilty of murder over 2016 Brussels terrorist attacks

      Bombing of airport and metro station killed 35 in Belgium’s deadliest peacetime assault

      Lawyers and some of the accused at an earlier hearing in the Brussels bombing trial
    • Friday, 7 July, 2023
      The Aesthete
      Architect and designer Vincent Van Duysen talks taste

      The Antwerp-based minimalist on dachshunds, detox and the dandy who became his style icon

      The world of architect/designer Vincent Van Duysen in his living room in his Antwerp home
    • Tuesday, 27 June, 2023
      Brexit
      UK rejects claim that EU science programme talks are foundering

      Experts warn that delay to membership of Horizon harms Britain’s aspiration to be science superpower

      The City of London skyline
    • Friday, 9 June, 2023
      House & Home
      Art Nouveau’s golden hour: a year-long architecture festival in Brussels

      The events aim to both revive appreciation of the aesthetic movement — and explore its darker backstory

      The entryway of the ‘otherworldly’ Maison Hannon, which has recently opened as a museum
    • Friday, 9 June, 2023
      HTSI
      The community of creatives behind Brussels’ coolest new hotel

      Designer Lionel Jadot’s most ambitious project has united Belgium’s brightest talents

    • Friday, 26 May, 2023
      Iran
      Belgian aid worker and Iranian diplomat freed in prisoner swap deal

      Olivier Vandecasteele and Asadollah Asadi were released on Friday as part of a trade mediated by Oman

      Demonstrators hold placards of the detained Belgian aid worker Olivier Vandecasteele
    • Wednesday, 17 May, 2023
      ReviewDance
      Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Brussels dance review — queer identities and wild bodies

      Pieces inspired by transgender people in west Africa and hair-braiding feature in this experimental festival

      A person on their knees reaches their arms out, all in blue light
    • Sunday, 7 May, 2023
      Bribery and corruption
      Belgium defends handling of ‘Qatargate’ corruption probe

      Unprecedented investigation at the European parliament has run into procedural problems

    • Wednesday, 3 May, 2023
      Italy
      Police arrest 150 in global crackdown on Italian mafia group

      ’Ndrangheta suspected of laundering drug money through hotels, restaurants and ice cream shops

      Police officers secure evidence during a raid in Mainz, Germany, on Wednesday
    • Friday, 21 April, 2023
      News in-depthAgriculture
      European ‘honey laundering’ fightback targets Chinese sugar syrup

      Beekeepers backed by 20 EU states call for tougher rules on fraudulent honey

      A senior beekeeper collects honey
    • Wednesday, 19 April, 2023
      Europe Express
      Belgium PM De Croo proposes nitrogen flexibility for farmers Premium content

      Also in this newsletter: Europe’s looming AI battles

      Alexander de Croo
    • Monday, 17 April, 2023
      FT Globetrotter
      An A to Z of FT readers’ favourite city runs

      Your most beloved urban running routes, from Athens to Zurich

      A runner on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice, with the sea in the background
    • Tuesday, 4 April, 2023
      European People’s Party
      Police raid headquarters of Europe’s largest political group

      German regional party official suspected of corruption in 2019 election campaign

      View of a European People’s Party summit in Brussels
    • Friday, 3 March, 2023
      Tefaf Maastricht 2023
      The Collectible design fair offers insects, offcuts and steampunk in Brussels

      The sixth edition foregrounds young designers who are working at the cutting edge

      Shelves of egg-shaped objects which glow like amber
    • Friday, 3 March, 2023
      Tefaf Maastricht 2023
      Antwerp’s fine arts museum brings a female Old Master back to life

      KMSKA, which has just reopened after its own restoration, is restoring two Michaelina Wautier paintings

      A woman wearing goggles and gloves uses a cotton bud to dab a painting of a young man whose canvas is scratched
    • Wednesday, 1 March, 2023
      Cyber warfare
      Belgium’s cyber security agency links China to spear phishing attack on MP

      European governments are increasingly challenging Beijing over suspected cyber offences

      Abdullam Imerov and Samuel Cogolati
    • Friday, 27 January, 2023
      FT Magazine
      The 60-year, 4,000-mile journey home of Lumumba’s tooth

      Decades after his murder, the tooth of the former Congolese leader turned up in Belgium. This is the story of its return

    • Tuesday, 17 January, 2023
      Bribery and corruption
      Main suspect in EU corruption scandal strikes plea bargain

      Pier Antonio Panzeri has agreed to co-operate with Belgian prosecutors

      Pier Antonio Panzeri speaking during a plenary session in Strasbourg
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