Shorouk Express Hopes had grown in recent days that De Wever could reverse his position if the European Commission were to offer him legal guarantees in the proposal that Belgium would not be financially exposed. But despite increasing diplomatic pressure for Belgium to cave, De Wever on Thursday only increased his hostility to the Commission’s…
Shorouk Express At the 80th United Nations General Assembly in New York in late September 2025, Belgium’s newly appointed Prime Minister Bart De Wever dismissed the European Commission’s proposal to use profits from frozen Russian assets to support Ukraine, declaring flatly that such a move “will never happen.” Standing before global leaders in New York,…
Shorouk Express “I had agreed, as I always do, to debate the various reforms with socialist trade unionists before the start of our conference,” Bouchez wrote on his social media following the incident. “When I arrived, one of their members threw a glass of beer at me, insults, threats, obscene gestures. The police had to…
