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Pope Francis delivers his message during a meeting with the authorities and the civil society in the Grande Galerie of the Castle of Laeken, Brussels, Friday, Sept. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Belgian PM and king blast Pope Francis for church’s sex abuse cover-up legacy in blistering welcome

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Belgium's Prime Minister Alexander De Croo arrives for an EU Summit in Brussels, on March 22, 2024. De Croo announced on Friday, April 12, 2024, an investigation into suspected Russian interference in Europe-wide elections in June, saying that his country's intelligence service has confirmed the existence of a network trying to undermine support for Ukraine. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert, File)

Belgium will investigate suspected Russian interference in upcoming EU elections

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From left, Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Netherland's Prime Minister Mark Rutte and French President Emmanuel Macron arrive for an EU Summit at Prague Castle in Prague, Czech Republic, Friday, Oct 7, 2022. European Union leaders enter a crucial stretch this week to make sure runaway energy prices and short supplies do not further tank their struggling economies and foment unrest. At the same time, they need to keep all 27 members united in their opposition of Russian President Vladimir Putin. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic, File)

EU faces battle to keep energy prices from tanking economy

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Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo speaks during a media conference, after a meeting with federal and regional officials regarding COVID-19 measures, in Brussels, Wednesday, April 14, 2021. (Frederic Sierakowski, Pool via AP)

Belgium eases lockdown, plans to open terraces in May

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From left, Walloon Minister President Elio Di Rupo, Belgium's Prime Minister Alexander De Croo and Flemish Minister President Jan Jambon prepare to address a media conference after a meeting of the consultative committee of government ministers in Brussels, Wednesday, March 24, 2021. Ministers met on Wednesday to discuss a possible tightening of COVID-19 measures as infections are once again on the rise. (Benoit Doppagne, Pool via AP)

Belgium reverts to tighter Easter lockdown amid virus spike

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A man walks by a closed cafe, due to COVID-19 restrictions, which is now selling books and hats and offering take-away service on the sidewalk in Antwerp, Belgium, Friday, March 18, 2021. Belgian health authorities are urging residents to limit their social contacts to a bare minimum and to massively opt for remote working to avoid another wave of COVID-19 infections. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

Belgium pauses re-opening plans as virus infections mount

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Belgian PM flies LGBT flag following suspicious murder

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Travellers, wearing face masks to prevent the spread of the coronavirus COVID-19, walk along the departure hall of the Zaventem international airport in Brussels, Friday, Jan. 22, 2021. European Union nations are searching ways to contain the pandemic and several are looking to limit non essential travels for the next weeks. Belgium has been at the forefront of that fight and authorities will decide late Friday whether to ban all leisure travel for a month. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Belgium bans leisure travel for a month to combat pandemic

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FILE - In this Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2020 file photo, medical staff work in the intensive care ward for COVID-19 patients at the CHR Citadelle hospital in Liege, Belgium. Small, yet so divided, Belgium is hit hard again by the pandemic, and now has some of the worst results to show in Europe during the resurgence of the Coronavirus, it is revealed Tuesday Oct. 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, File)

Divided Belgium among Europe’s worst virus hotspots

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Medical staff transfer a COVID-19 patient, due to the lack of room, from the CHR Citadelle hospital in Liege, Belgium, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2020. Authorities in Belgium fear another deadly wave of coronavirus cases could soon hit care homes for the elderly, as the country also confronts the possibility of its hospitals becoming overwhelmed with COVID-19 patients. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Restrictions tightened, but no new virus lockdown in Belgium

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN - Associated Press

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, speaks with from right, Luxembourg's Prime Minister Xavier Bettel, Belgium's new Prime Minister Alexander De Croo, Italy's Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte and European Council President Charles Michel during a round table meeting at an EU summit at the European Council building in Brussels, Thursday, Oct. 1, 2020. European Union leaders are meeting to address a series of foreign affairs issues ranging from Belarus to Turkey and tensions in the eastern Mediterranean. (Olivier Hoslet, Pool via AP)

De Croo sworn in as Belgian premier, rushes to EU summit

By RAF CASERT - Associated Press

FILE - In this Friday, July 1, 2016 file photo, a Belgium fan poses for a photograph prior to the Euro 2016 quarterfinal soccer match between Wales and Belgium, at the Pierre Mauroy stadium in Villeneuve d'Ascq, near Lille, France. The Belgian football federation said on Thursday, March 8, 2018 that it will not change its mind about choosing a rapper known for lacing his songs with obscene and misogynistic lyrics to produce its official World Cup song. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, File)

Belgium has scandal brewing over rapper’s World Cup song

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Belgium's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Development and Cooperation Alexander De Croo, right, and Dutch Minister for Trade and Development Cooperation Lilianne Plouman, left, address a media conference, She Decides, at the Egmont Palace in Brussels on Thursday, March 2, 2017. Nations are pledging tens of millions of dollars at an international family planning conference in Brussels aimed at making up for the gap left by President Donald Trump's ban on U.S. funding to groups linked to abortion. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

Donors pledge nearly $200 million for family planning

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Belgian Vice Prime Minister Alexander De Croo talks during an interview with the Associated Press in Brussel, Wednesday, March 1, 2017. Organizers say some 50 countries signed up at short notice to attend Thursday's global family planning conference specifically called to see how nations can make up for a funding gap of about half a billion dollars left by President Donald Trump's ban on U.S. funding to organizations linked to legal abortion. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

50 nations seek to counter US ban on family planning funds

By RAF CASERT - Associated Press

President Donald Trump shows off a signed executive order to reinstitute a policy barring any recipient of U.S. assistance from performing or promoting abortions abroad with money they receive from non-U.S. sources, Monday, Jan. 23, 2017, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Belgians, Dutch join in opposing Trump’s anti-abortion plans

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