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No budget by 1 January: De Wever calls it a failure and ties his premiership to a multi-year plan
Van Peel kept silent after her audience with the king, while the prime minister confirmed in the Chamber that the state will fall back on provisional twelfths; at 10.30 today he hears what King Philippe has decided.
4 sources · VRT NWS, L'Avenir, La DH +Migration
After ten hours of debate, the law allowing home entries to arrest undocumented migrants is passed
The Arizona majority and Anders voted in favour in the early hours of Friday, Vlaams Belang abstained, and the left-wing opposition and DéFI voted against.
3 sources · Bruzz, RTBF, La LibreJustice
French career criminal Antonio Ferrara gets thirteen years for a planned raid in Bochum
The Brussels court also sentenced nine co-defendants, who were arrested in Eupen in 2025 after a gunfight with special police units.
2 sources · VRT NWS, 20 minutesPensions
Over half a million visitors in a day as everyone can again check their earliest retirement date on mypension.be
The pension website more than doubled its previous record on Wednesday and slowed down at times as a result.
3 sources · VRT NWS, Business AM, Belga ShareAviation
Planes bound for Zaventem and Charleroi also targeted in a second wave of hoax bomb alerts across Europe
Some twenty flights received threats on Thursday; minister Crucke has asked OCAM for an assessment.
3 sources · VRT NWS, La Libre, RTBF