Belgium

The airline Ryanair has just announced several new flights for its next winter season from its Belgian airports, including one to Morocco.
It is thus a question of a new connection from Brussels Airport to Essaouira Airport. The frequency of flights as well as the schedules, which must be presented shortly by the low-cost company, are not yet known.
In addition to Morocco, Ryanair also plans new connections to Krakow (Poland), Pisa (Italy), Seville (Spain) and Catania (Italy) as well as (…)

After 89 appearances for the national team and a very good World Cup in Russia last year, the Belgian player of Moroccan origin Marouane Fellaini has just announced his international retirement.
In a message posted yesterday on his Twitter account, the player writes: "I have decided to retire from international football. I think it’s the right time for me to leave and allow the next generation to continue this successful period in the history of Belgian football."
After several years (…)

A costume that does not pass the eyes of many people on social media. Students from a Catholic school in Melle, East Flanders, are at the center of a controversy that is hard to die down.
According to the Belgian media, including the RTBF channel, the senior classes chose the theme of Islam for their costume this year. Unfortunately, the choice of costumes is hard to accept, or at least as the channel writes "the behavior of the students".
Thus, in a video posted on social media, we see (…)

Virginity tests should no longer be issued by doctors in Belgium. This is at least what the Order of Physicians hopes, which has just issued a call to health professionals to no longer provide this controversial certificate.
For the Order of Physicians, these certificates are not only "useless for health" but also have no "scientific relevance" and should therefore be simply refused by professionals, writes the National Council of the Belgian Order of Physicians in an opinion published a (…)

Malika El Aroud can be deported to Morocco. All appeals of the one nicknamed "the Black Widow of Jihad" have been exhausted and her deportation to the kingdom could happen quite soon.
Born in Tangier, Malika El Aroud, now 60 years old, had already lost her Belgian citizenship in November 2017 for having been the leader of a terrorist group. On Friday, she was excluded from refugee status by the Council for Alien Law Litigation (CCE), the judges having considered that she could not claim (…)

It is not uncommon to see women talking on their cell phones under their headscarf on the roads. This practice is a priori legal in Belgium, as explained by an expert to the Belgian newspaper La Dernière Heure.
Thus, according to Benoît Godart, spokesperson for the Vias institute (formerly the Belgian Institute for Road Safety), interviewed by the newspaper, the Belgian highway code mentions the prohibition for the driver to use the phone held in the hand. If the cell phone is not held in (…)

A ruling by the Council for Alien Law Litigation, dated this Friday, could trigger the procedure for removing Malika El Aroud, a woman with multiple extravagant nicknames such as "The Black Widow of Jihad" or "The Fiancée of the Jihadists", from Belgium to Morocco. She had been sentenced to eight years in prison in 2010.
"The judges ruled that she (Malika El Aroud, ed.), who was deprived of her Belgian nationality, had not demonstrated that her return to Morocco would expose her to a risk (…)

An interference in Belgian affairs? In any case, it looks like it: the Moroccan ambassador to Belgium, Mohammed Ameur, has just asked Belgian-Moroccan dual nationals to vote, in a tone that one might almost take for an order.
While speaking at a meeting in Brussels, organized at the Moroccan Consulate General, Mohammed Ameur, a Moroccan diplomat, almost ordered: "Last week, Moroccans in Antwerp admitted to me that they prefer to pay a fine rather than go and vote. Because, they told me, (…)

Whether in the army or the police, many Moroccan women have achieved brilliant careers in Europe and America, even though these sectors were, not so long ago, almost exclusively reserved for men.
In a special report in the newspaper Al Akhbar, there are many examples of Moroccan women who have succeeded in reaching the top in the sensitive sectors of the army, civil protection and security services. In Germany, Italy, Spain, France... These Moroccan women arouse pride.
Thus, in the (…)

The stand of journalist Zineb El Rhazoui at the Brussels Book Fair was vandalized last Wednesday. The person responsible left a note that said "Dirty fascists".
"The stand of the former Charlie Hebdo journalist and activist, Zineb El Rhazoui, was vandalized this Wednesday, February 13, by an individual during the Book Fair in Brussels. The young man in the backpack is said to have evaded security," Le Soir reports at the outset. However, it should be noted that it was not (only) Zineb El (…)