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No, the meeting did not go badly for Ukraine. It exposed in the most undeniable, unequivocal way possible the pro-Putin commitments of the president and vice president. That was information Americans and allies needed to have clear before them.

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“If Roosevelt had told Churchill to sue for peace on any terms with Adolf Hitler and to fork over Britain’s coal reserves to the United States in exchange for no American security guarantees, it might have approximated what Trump did to Zelensky”

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Winston Churchill visiting the WH in 1942. Not wearing a suit

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Russia-linked Telegram channels ‘offering to pay for attacks on mosques’

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Striking workers grounded flights and halted sea and train transport across Greece and people gathered for protests in anger over a perceived lack of justice two years after the country's worst-ever train crash killed 57 people reut.rs/3Xl9ARu

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Audi factory in Brussels shuts up shop after more than 75 years

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The Brussels Times Gig Guide: What are the best concerts in March?

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US President Donald Trump said that "The European Union was formed in order to screw the United States. That is the purpose of it."

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🇪🇺VP Dombrovskis presenting #Omnibus walk-back of #GreenDeal as a response to the "bigger picture" of the changed 🇪🇺🇺🇸relationship. "This week we saw a longstanding strategic partner vote against a 🇺🇳resolution condemning 🇷🇺aggression against🇺🇦. We need to treat these developments as a call to action"

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The nighttime shelling of Ukraine by Russian drones continues unabated. Last night, one of them hit a high-rise building in Kharkiv. This building in was already destroyed by Russian shelling in 2022. Then it was restored and people returned there. The struggle continues...

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Every major UK newspaper is running with the #MakeItFair #CreativeRightsInAI campaign today. I hope the government is listening. www.newsmediauk.org/make-it-fair/

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This Friday in Brussels at Place Luxembourg a gathering to honour those lost in the Tempe train crash of two trains in Greece in February 2023 where 56 lives were lost 😔

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Former Brexit party MEP in court on Russia-linked bribery charges

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"The date was February 23. I had just turned 18. My ticket read Odesa - Warsaw - Amsterdam. I knew where I was going, but I didn’t expect the journey to end up the way it did." – comment by Kosmos Khoroshavin

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Russia hails US breakthrough of relations.

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I present to you the next deputy director of the FBI!

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How many more times do Europe's centre-right parties need to learn this lesson? Voters prefer the original to the copy

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The latest @brusselstimes.com Magazine is on sale now! And for this one, we’re doing a deep dive into waste – or rather, waste disposal. It’s not an issue we generally like to talk about, but how we deal with our trash, rubbish and garbage matters. Cover art by @lectrr.bsky.social

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2025 is Art Deco Year. The Belgian capital itself is a 24/7 open-air exhibition of the style and I wrote about it for the new Brussels Times Magazine.

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Thousands of people attended the funeral of 19 year old Souleymane Sow today in Brussels. He was shot and killed at Clemenceau metro station in what has become a series of attacks there. Speaking to press earlier, reps from his family insisted he wasn't connected to any gangs.

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The territorial battle between drug gangs is too big a battle for the local police alone, said the mayors of Anderlecht, Saint-Gilles and Forest and the Brussels Midi police chief.

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Far-right lobbying secrecy 🚨 CEO has submitted a formal complaint to the EU Transparency Register secretariat against Orban-linked thinktank MCC Brussels MCC Brussels, active since Nov 2022, refuses to disclose financial information, incl funding sources www.corporateeurope.org/en/2025/02/c...

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Lie after lie has been told this week about how the Ukraine war started, from the Kremlin and the White House. Here's our News Agents video essay which explains the truth, and spells out why Trump clings so close to Putin and lives in his warped reality. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cufM...

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"Stop criticising each other and give us a solution!" A look into local efforts to make a difference in Anderlecht in the midst of unrelenting drug violence. Some residents are rejecting mainstream politics while others prefer to focus on solidarity.

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"Move NATO somewhere else." As the transatlantic relationship sours, Jeffrey Sachs says now is the time for European autonomy. www.brusselstimes.com/eu-affairs/1...

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We see your tiny Hedge Hog (so precious) and we raise you... miniature Galileo!

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Fascinating: Without #migration, Italy’s population is projected to halve by the end of this century 👇 🔗 www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int... via @theguardian.com

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Yesterday, a Cureghem resident, Jonas, showed me around his neighbourhood, which in recent weeks has been rocked by a series of shootings. We spoke about how the escalating drug violence is impacting locals, and is even driving them away.

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"The rise of the far-right could speed up the population decline of Europe, projections show, creating economic shocks including slower growth and soaring costs from pensions and elderly care." www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

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In the aftermath of the drug violence in Brussels earlier this month, the CEO of BECI Thierry Geerts talks to @brusselstimes.com about the (international) perception of insecurity in the Belgian capital. "No business thrives in an unsafe environment." www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/1444...

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Orban and Fico may not have been invited to Macron's emergency Paris summit to respond to Vance's Munich provocations - but it seems Meloni may be fulfilling their spoiler role. She is defending Vance's speech, and meanwhile her foreign minister is calling Trump "Italy's main ally".

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Record shop just threw me out for listening to music on earbuds. With a little moral lecture thrown in.

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Air pollution in Brussels is so bad that the region's smog plan has been triggered. What does stage 1 involve? "As a result, we are informing the population about air quality. This is the first of four phases of the contingency plan for pollution peaks."

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Germany🇩🇪 responds to JD Vance

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EU top diplomat Kallas at NATO pushes back against US and Trump’s call with Putin: - Why are we giving them what they want before negations have started? - Negotiations behind our backs won’t work bcos 🇪🇺 is needed to implement it - any deal without EU would be a “dirty deal”

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In Belgium, tens of thousands of workers will go on strike today over the new government's planned cuts to public services, pensions and purchasing power. UNI Europa Executive Committee member Lieveke Norga spoke to @brusselstimes.com about the budget question.

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Tens of thousands of people are expected to go on strike today. As a result, multiple services across the country will grind to a halt.

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In a statement, AP editor Julie Pace said the White House told the AP if it did not align its editorial standards with Trump’s executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America, it would be barred from accessing Trump's executive order signing

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Un narcotrafiquant néerlandais en cavale réapparaît sur la page Facebook de la première dame de Sierra Leone

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Activists & journalists are spied on, while war criminals walk free. @davidyambio.bsky.social , who exposes Libya’s torture camps, was targeted with advanced spyware linked to a global surveillance network. This is an attack on human rights & democracy. The EU must act.

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Local news. Headline: Crazed Fighters. A Sunday evening at 9pm in June 1900, a patrolman rushes to boulevard Clovis where 20 bare-chested men are fighting. They run off and as he gives chase disappointed spectators pelt him with stones. An inquiry is opened.

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All smiles

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Von der Leyen launches EU's AI plan with €200 billion in investment

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Another national strike is taking place this week. While previous actions were based on assumptions and leaked proposals, this Thursday is a response to a concrete agreement. Some 60,000 people are expected to demonstrate. "There is even more anger now; many feel cheated," one union Gen-Sec told me.

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European school teachers in Brussels to strike against unfair contracts

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Almost all of last week's shootings took place at officially designated 'hotspots', but has the label made any difference to Brussels' handle on drug violence?: www.brusselstimes.com/brussels/143...

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