Brussels Blog

It was nice to meet up with some old friends as well as some current colleagues at a recent meeting in London to discuss the relaunch of FUT...

My son and I spend a lot of time at the military museum in Brussels http://www.klm-mra.be/klm-new/engels/main01.php?id=menu_links/startpagin...

By now I guess Osama Bin Laden will have realised that all that stuff about 72 virgins awaiting him in paradise was all total nonsense. I ...

Typical Norfolk Villagers Go About Their Business - 2011 It's true! According to the Royal British Legion magazine 'Legion' (...

This morning, whilst crossing the 5 lane chaos that is Rue Belliard, just outside the parliament, I and my fellow pedestrians had a narrow e...

  Icelanders have voted to reject proposals to repay something like 4 billion quid that they owe us and the Dutch. Well, isn't that a gr...

And now for the news. Belgian aircraft yesterday launched a strike in Libya. The Army is expected to come out in sympathy, as are Belgian ...

In Doel, in East Flanders, the British war monument at the yacht basin has been pulled down. This happened at the request of the local autho...

I was thrilled to learn of the existence of an armed political organisation that calls itself MILF. Now this is a highly unfortunate acronym...

Zin El Abidine Ben Ali is the deposed 74 year old former president of Tunisia. He is not too popular at the moment, and there are fears for ...

 Nicolas Sarkozy : Trailing in the Polls  This week we decamped to Strasbourg for the monthly round of meetings and events that I alone...

"Not in Service" Today is a nice day. The roads were clear this morning, and traffic was flowing freely. There were also fewer ...