Tag: belgium

• Inaugural Brussels Art Week stakes a strong claim for the city’s scene

  September 18, 2025

  Organised by new non-profit RendezVous, the event brought together Brussels’s wealth of commercial galleries, institutions and artist-run spaces https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/09/17/inaugural-brussels-art-week-stakes-a-claim-for-the-citys-scene more ›

• 70 Years of Fighting for Justice and Reparations! Mobilizations by “Métis” People from the Great Lakes Abducted by the Belgian Colonial Administration

  November 18, 2024

  In this report, we show that Belgium’s response obscures the transnational nature of the Métis question. The crimes were perpetrated against African mothers living in the Great Lakes region and… more ›

• Drugs, violence and organized crime in Belgium

  December 17, 2023

  The answer is, of course, cocaine. Antwerp, Europe’s diamond capital, is now better known as a key way station on the drug superhighway into the EU from Panama, Ecuador and… more ›

• Peruvian police seize cocaine bricks wrapped in Nazi insignia

  May 26, 2023

  Peru’s anti-narcotics police have seized 58kg (127 pounds) of cocaine headed for Belgium in packages bearing Nazi symbols and imprinted with the name of Germany’s war-time leader Hitler. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/5/26/peruvian-police-seize-cocaine-bricks-wrapped-in-nazi-insignia more ›

• Death of DRC’s Lumumba: ‘The Belgians weren’t the only bad guys’, says daughter Juliana

  September 20, 2020

  A Belgian court announced that it would return Patrice Émery Lumumba’s tooth to his family. Juliana Lumumba, daughter of the hero of the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s independence, spoke… more ›

• Rethinking Retail: The Role of the Physical Store

  December 2, 2018

  Rethinking Retail: The Role of the Physical Store What technologies are essential to the future stores? According to the survey, both brands and retailers look at optimising the checkout process… more ›