📅 4 April 2019
Prime Minister Charles Michel apologized on behalf of the Belgian state for separating mixed-race children from their Congolese mothers and placing many in institutions. The apology addressed a...
📅 4 April 2019
Prime Minister Charles Michel apologized on behalf of the federal government for the suffering and injustice inflicted on people of mixed ancestry born in Central Africa during colonial rule,...
📅 6 Novèmber 2014
A national demonstration opened a month of rolling union actions against the centre-right government’s planned pension-age increase, wage restraint and public-service cuts. Police estimated at least...
📅 15 Desèmber 2014
The country’s two largest union confederations jointly organised a 24-hour general strike after a month of escalating actions. Workers opposed pension-age increases, wage freezes and cuts to public...
