Frédéric Rohart

Even countries like Belgium that do not have their own atomic weapons still bear partial nuclear responsibility, L'Echo points out: “From the outset, it supplied the uranium used to manufacture the bombs dropped on Japan, extracted from the Shinkolobwe mine in the Congolese province of Katanga. ...

12 november 2021 Vandaag om 22:34 PS-voorzitter Paul Magnette zegt niet meer te zullen terugkomen op het voornemen van de federale regering om de kerncentrales te sluiten. Tegelijk hekelt hij het gebrek aan ambitie van ons land op de klimaattop in Glasgow. De federale regering buigt zich deze maand over de bevoorradingszekerheid op de elektriciteitsmarkt en de gevolgen daarvan voor de kernuitstap.

Brussels has offered to ease the customs controls that have been in place at the Irish Sea border since Brexit, saying it would waive those on goods explicitly destined for Northern Ireland, among other things. Britain's Brexit Minister David Frost had called for renegotiation of the Northern Ireland Protocol and threatened to suspend it entirely. Commentators advise Brussels to adopt a clear stance.