(Belga) The federal government has approved a preliminary draft law that bans the activities of radical organisations in Belgium. The text introduces a mechanism that can ban certain organisations that pose a serious threat to national security and the democratic order. “The […]
(Brussels Times) A subsidy granted for years to an organisation suspected of links to the Muslim Brotherhood is now under scrutiny in the FWB legislature, with Mouvement Réformateur (MR) parliamentarian Denis Ducarme calling for a commission of inquiry into the issue. According […]
(European Jewish Press) The Belgian federal government has announced that the pro-Palestinian organization Samidoun will be added to the OCAD database — Belgium’s official registry for tracking terrorism, extremism, and radicalization, a move which is seen as a first step towards a […]
(Brussels Times) The next government must decide whether or not to repatriate Belgian fighters in Syrian prisons, the interim foreign affairs minister has stated. Following the fall of the Assad regime in Syria, the Coordination Unit for Threat Analysis (OCAM) has identified […]
(Brussels Times) There are around ten Belgian citizens in the Islamist group that ousted Bashar al-Assad from power in Syria last week, according to Belgium’s interim Foreign Minister Bernard Quintin (MR). In a shock chain of events, the Islamist group Hayat Tahrir […]
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