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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 European Commission reprimands Belgium, France, Hungary, Italy, Malta, Poland, and Slovakia for breaking budget rules. [14] Brussels declines to host a UEFA Nations League match between Belgium and Israel over security concerns. [15]
The problem is mostly situated in cities and industrial areas. [5] Total acidifying emissions have decreased very rapidly since 1990, but NOx still remains a problem. Half of NOx emissions are due to transport. [5] Photo-chemical air pollution remains a problem. On hot summer days, ozone levels frequently surpass EU targets.
In 2023, Belgium emitted 106.82 million tonnes of greenhouse gases (around 0.2% of the global total emissions), equivalent to 9.12 tonnes per person. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] In 2021, the country's 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 ...
A study based on data from 1999 concluded that minors of non-European nationality were overrepresented in crime statistics. [4] While 4.4% of the Belgian population has a non-European nationality, 19% of all prosecuted cases, and 24% of cases presented in youth court involved non-European nationals.
Because of its high population density and location in the centre of Western Europe, Belgium faces serious environmental problems. A 2003 report [13] suggested that the water in Belgium's rivers was of the lowest quality in Europe, and bottom of the 122 countries studied. The environment is exposed to intense pressures from human activities ...
Social movements in Belgium (1 C) A. Animal welfare and rights in Belgium (3 C) D. Discrimination in Belgium (2 C) P. Prostitution in Belgium (2 C, 5 P) W.
The heart of the problem is not the partition of Belgium but its federalization also called regionalization or communitarization. [1] This process of devolution, which began in the 1960s due to the pressure of the Flemish movement and, to a lesser extent, of the Walloon movement, is called in the Belgian context the state reform. While most ...