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Buddhism is officially recognized as a philosophy of life by the Council of ministers on Friday. It is estimated that the community in Belgium has around 150,000 supporters. The Federal Council of ministers will normally green the bill of minister of Justice Vincent Van Quickenborne (Open Vld) regarding the recognition on Friday. Buddhism is thus the eighth non-denominational philosophy in Belgium, in addition to, among other things, the Catholic, Islamic and liberal philosophy. ” Over the past decades, this community has proven that it can structure itself and make a…

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The Dutch scaleup Eveon is working hard to unlock the market for used shipping containers internationally via an e-commerce platform. After Germany (2020), the United States (2021) and Canada (2022), Eveon is now also active in its home country of the Netherlands. Belgium will follow soon. The plan is to roll out further to dozens of countries in the coming years. The aim is to let more used shipping containers find their way to a second life. This results in a huge CO2 reduction. Eveon is the only fully digital…

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The Belgian police on Tuesday removed dozens of tents and other buildings that had been standing in front of the registration center in Brussels for months. The more than a hundred refugees who slept in it are taken in other places. The evacuation follows less than a month after the major action in which more than a hundred refugees were taken out of a cracked building. The improvised tent camp stood at The Little Castle, in the middle of the Belgian capital. That is also the place where the asylum…

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Mallory Gabsi, a former Belgian runner-up for “Top Chef”, has been awarded both the Michelin Young Chef award as well as one of the organisation’s illustrious stars for his restaurant in Paris. Gabsi, who was born in Ixelles, opened his eponymous restaurant in Paris in April 2022 on Rue des Acacias 28. Now the 26-year-old has received his first Michelin star – one of 44 newly-starred restaurants this year. As if that wasn’t cause enough for celebration, Gbasi also received the Young Chef award, presented to him by Michelin president…

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A large number of asylum seekers have been sleeping rough along the canal in Molenbeek. Since mid-February, the line of tents and makeshift shelters has spread down the edge of the waterway. On Tuesday, they are finally being evacuated for rehousing. For months on end, the pavements next to and bridge over the canal in Molenbeek Saint-Jean near Belgium’s Asylum agency Fedasil’s registration centre Petit Château have been lined with tents housing asylum seekers who were denied the shelter to which they are legally entitled in Belgium. In recent weeks,…

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Iran is willing to carry out a possible prisoner exchange with Belgium. This was reported by the Iranian Foreign Ministry. The Belgian Constitutional Court rejected the appeal against the Iran deal at the end of last week. The Belgian Olivier Vandecasteele from Oostduinkerke, who has been imprisoned in an Iranian cell for more than a year, could thus be released. “With the decision of the Belgian Constitutional Court, we can say that the way is open to implement the agreement, which welcomes the Islamic Republic of Iran,” said Nasser Kanani,…

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The Belgian Yellow Vest (gilet jaune) movement, which once rallied thousands in the streets of France and Belgium against a drop in the standard of living, has faced yet another stumbling block in its revival. On the eve of massive protests against reduced purchasing power in Brussels, a Liège Yellow Vest rally mobilised less than 50 people on Saturday morning, in front of the Palais des Princes-Évêques (Palace of the Prince Bishops), RTBF reports. The occupation of roundabouts and roads in previous years, with hundreds of protests, seems a distant…

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SpaceX will expand its Starlink network to include 7,500 new satellites. The company had asked permission to launch thirty thousand artificial moons, but the US regulator FCC did not want to go that far. The Starlink network now consists of 3,177 satellites. There will be an additional 7,500 satellites in the near future. SpaceX is currently launching a cargo of about fifty artificial moons almost every week. Through the Starlink network, customers can connect to the internet from virtually anywhere in the world. The speeds are comparable to fixed broadband…

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If you want to travel abroad by train, you have to take into account delays and cancellations. For example, there are no trains to and from Austria on November 28th. Night trains have been cancelled since Sunday. Rail passengers to Belgium and the United Kingdom are also suffering from strikes. Austria The Austrian Railways and the trade unions tried in vain on Sunday to avert the strike. There are no trains all day Monday. On Sunday, around 50 night trains will be scrapped, including the Amsterdam – Vienna and Amsterdam…

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The European Space Agency ESA has presented its newest team of astronauts. The group consists of five people, including a Belgian. The new crew will be trained to go to the ISS space station from the beginning of next year. In the future, they may also go to the moon. The new Belgian astronaut is named Raphaël Liégeois, born in 1988. He can become the first Waal in space. The others are Sophie Adenot (France, 1982), Pablo Álvarez Fernández (Spain, 1988), Rosemary Coogan (United Kingdom, 1991) and Marco Sieber (Switzerland,…

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