A Deep Dive into Corruption. MOL oil money comes from Putin, Russia fbs criminals to finance disinformation and propaganda operations in Europe to target freedom and the rule of law. 🚨
What a bastard….article 7 time! Orbáns' Scandalous Propaganda Empire Exposed.
Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC), the right-wing aka fascist Hungarian educational institution funded by Viktor Orbán’s rightwing government, has been expanding internationally. It opened a centre in #Brussels, bought a university in #Vienna and has plans for new branches in other western European cities, including London.
Its' views are closely aligned with fascist Orbán, and it funds academics who disseminate Orbán’s positions to extend his influence across Europe and beyond.
MCC has tremendous financial backing, receiving more than £1.3bn in Hungarian state funding in 2020. MCC offers can be hard to turn down. It provides funding, scholarships, housing, invitations to lavish dinners, open-bar parties, trips abroad & more $$
"A prominent #rabbi from #Brussels who once criticized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for calling on #European#Jews to move to #Israel now asks the #Jewish state to prepare for a wave of immigrants from the continent due to #antisemitism.
“My message to the #Israeli prime minister today is not as sure as it used to be,” says Menachem Margolin, head of the European Jewish Association lobby group in Brussels, at a conference in #Amsterdam on combating antisemitism.
“Today I say to Israel: We are not there yet, but be ready, get your government agencies ready,” Margolin says."
31 May 1596: d. John Leslie, Bishop of Ross near #Brussels#otd Also an important historian. Here is his History of Scots (1578), in an Irish Franciscan copy. (JMcC)
Ardent supporter & friend of Mary Queen of #Scots.
And in #Brussels? If you dream of living in a #cohousing, maybe you want to consider joining our group. Presentation on 6th of June: https://thereef.brussels , then click on "Join us" to find the registration link.
Graffitis, trash everywhere, one McDonald's attacked, all bus stops graffitied, at least one trash can burning, these are the leftovers of the most recent demonstration "for peace in #Gaza" here in #Brussels.
And not so long ago, when people were still demonstrating for peace in #Ukraine, the city showed it could have thousands of peaceful demonstrators.
Now a small gathering leaves a smell of war zone. I guess not all peace demonstrations are really about peace. 🤷🏻♂️
#Belgium will deliver 30 of its F-16 fighters to #Ukraine by 2028, Foreign Minister Hadja #Lahbib announced on Tuesday in La Matinale de Bel RTL. The first planes should already be delivered "by the end of the year".
This commitment will be formalized in an agreement which will be signed this Tuesday in #Brussels on the occasion of the visit to the capital of Ukrainian President Volodymyr #Zelensky.
26 May 1602: b. Philippe de Champaigne #otd in #Brussels - he would become a painter & future founder member of the Académie de peinture et de sculpture in #Paris.
Here he is 1668 painted by his nephew Jean-Baptiste de Champaigne
#I know #Russia doesn't have the numbers necessary to do a strategic breakthrough,” Christopher #Cavoli told reporters after a meeting of the alliance’s defense chiefs at #NATO headquarters in #Brussels
“They don't have the skill and the capability to do it, to operate at the scale necessary to exploit any breakthrough to strategic advantage," said the #US general, but added: "They do have the ability to make local advances and they have done some of that”
Filing this one away for the next time I hear someone say “you could never fit LRT on this street!” (side note: #Brussels has a brilliant tram system). #transit#urbanism#cities
Most pedestrian streets that I’ve seen just close off the street to vehicles and they’re done. Nothing wrong with that. But Boulevard Anspach in #Brussels has gone a step further and added trees, wildflower gardens, planters and rain gardens. Looks great!
A generation ago, Hungarians turned out en masse in their capital of #Budapest to joyfully shed the grip of the Soviet Union.
But fast forward to today: #Hungary has emerged—in the view of Washington and #Brussels—as the biggest troublemaker inside #NATO, with moves such as opposing sanctions against #Russia for its war on Ukraine and delaying #Sweden’s entry into the Atlantic alliance.
Spokesman of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Maria #Zakharova threatens a retaliatory strike if the Crimean bridge is attacked with Western support.
"I would like again to warn #Washington, #London, #Brussels that any aggressive actions against #Crimea are not only doomed to fail, but will also be met with a blow of retaliation that will be crushing,"
I have the #Wikipedia page "Lijst van Stolpersteine in het Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest" in the #Netherlands WP, and it's missing at least one #Stolperstein.
I don't feel comfortable adding the data there, as I don't understand the language.
Does someone - ideally from #Brussels / #Bruxelles in #Belgium - feel comfortable adding the details in the correct table, if I can provide a photo and the details?
"The report showed that improvements in #AirQuality between 2019 and 2022 from lowering motor vehicle pollution – even before the expansion of the #ULEZ throughout the capital since August – rivalled the potential savings from entirely cleaning up #London’s aviation or industrial and commercial heat and power generation."
"#Antwerp was the first city to set up a zone in 2017. This was followed by #Brussels, and then #Ghent. Like #London’s ultra-low emission zone (#ULEZ), and more than 320 schemes across Europe, the Belgian zones are designed to improve air pollution by deterring the most polluting vehicles from driving on city streets (generally the oldest diesels)."
In these cities, #AirPollution has decreased faster than in cities without low emissions zones.