“Intox total!!” Maxime Prévot, the chairman of Les Engagés, emphatically contradicts with two exclamation marks that there is already an agreement between his party, sister party CD&V and the MR. “There is no agreement whatsoever.” That is what Bart De Wever, the chairman of the N-VA, claims in an interview in the weekly magazine Humo. … Read more
“Two ladies at the same time are too much of a risk for Nestor at the moment” Ilse Segers, the spokeswoman for the Antwerp Zoo, was more concerned on Wednesday about the lion Nestor than about the lionesses, the sisters Maya and Numa, with whom he would be allowed to mate in Bellewaerde Park. That … Read more
– © BELGA – Two years after taking the helm of CD&V, Joachim Coens (55) is standing in front of what was to be the major renewal conference. It is already clear that it will be a measure for nothing. And that has not only to do with corona. This is the story of the … Read more
Even though the State Secretary for Asylum and Migration, Sammy Mahdi, presents himself as the ideological helmsman of the CD&V, he will not ‘pull down’ its chairman Joachim Coens (CD&V). – ‘Joachim Coen (CD&V chairman, ed.) must know that he can count on me’, said CD&V politician and State Secretary for Asylum and Migration Sammy … Read more
Secretary of State for Asylum and Migration Sammy Mahdi (CD&V) had to intervene in his neutral zone. It was intended for the hunger strikers, but was overrun by others who wanted to apply for asylum. From Monday they will no longer be in, but Mahdi remains behind his solution. “If treating hunger strikers as a … Read more
Secretary of State for Asylum and Migration Sammy Mahdi (CD&V) defends the rapid handling of files of the undocumented migrants who ended their hunger strike a few days ago. “If that’s what we have to do to end the hunger strike, then I’m ready to do it,” the state secretary said in the House on … Read more
On Friday afternoon, thirty activists occupied the entrance hall of the cabinet of Brussels Minister of Work Bernard Clerfayt (Défi) in the name of the more than 400 hunger strikers sans-papiers. They request residence permits for the sans-papiers through an exception procedure. – The occupiers requested at least one year renewable residence permits with unrestricted … Read more
A group of sympathizers of the hunger strikers without papers occupied the building of the Immigration Office (DVZ) on the Pachecolaan in Brussels for several hours on Tuesday. With their action they expressed their support for the sans-papiers and asked for an immediate regularization for the hunger strikers. The operation ultimately passed without incident. – … Read more