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Belgium greenhouse emission of gas from 1990 to 2016. In 2021, the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions were 146.9 million tons of CO 2 equivalent (Mt CO 2 eq), whose 88 Mt came from the Flemish Region, 54.8 Mt from the Walloon Region and 4 Mt from the Brussels-capital Region. [4]
12 April – Belgian prosecutors open an investigation into Russian interference in the 2024 European Parliament election. [ 10 ] 16 April – Brussels police shut down the right-wing National Conservatism Conference attended by Nigel Farage and expected to host Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán .
The pan-European ecological network Natura 2000 covers 428,908 hectares in Belgium, representing 12.6% of the land area and 12% of the territorial waters. [13] Famous protected areas include the High Fens, Belgium's first national park, and the Hoge Kempen National Park, which is the newest national park in Belgium, and opened in 2006. [14]
Belgium’s decision to change the law was the result of months of protests in 2022, prompted by the lack of state support during the Covid pandemic.
10 March – Belgium banned TikTok from all federal government work devices over cybersecurity, privacy, and misinformation concerns. [3]5 May – Belgian authorities arrest an Iraqi Al-Qaeda member and charge him with murder, terrorism, war crimes, and crimes against humanity, for his role in the deaths of at least 376 people and the wounding of over 2,300 others more than a decade ago in Iraq.
Belgian Blue Cluster has 192 industrial members and 17 publicly traded partners
On 24 January 2022, a protest erupted in Brussels, Belgium against COVID-19 rules. More than 50,000 people began the protest at the capital's Nord Station and ended at Sycamorenter Park, near European institutions. On 24 January The demonstration was fixed with the administrators that this demonstration will end at 2 pm, but when it was not ...
The Belgian authorities do not have a reliable estimate of the number of undocumented workers residing in Belgium. The estimates range from 50 000 to 250 000 people. The public administration's working assumption is that there are at least 100 000 undocumented migrants in Belgium, many of who work in industries such as restaurants, cleaning ...