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☆ A Sex Education Program Causes Controversy in Belgium. Schools Are Burning, the Country Is Worried
  + stars: | 2023-09-15 | by ( Associated Press | Sept. | At A.M. | ) www.usnews.com   time to read: +3 min
Officials believe the attacks are connected to a controversial sexual education school program. Signs protesting the so-called Evras program were discovered in some of the schools, according to authorities. “In a democracy like ours, we will never allow our schools to be a target,” De Croo said. Political Cartoons View All 1163 Images“We don’t touch our schools,” Verlinden said during a news conference with De Croo. De Croo said that sexual education has been provided in Belgium for half a century and warned that the country will not take steps backwards.
Persons: Alexander De Croo, De Croo, “, Annelies Verlinden, ” Verlinden, De, Verlinden, she's, “ hypersexualization, It’s, Caroline Desir, Paul Magnette, ” Organizations: —, Brussels Federation, Charleroi Locations: BRUSSELS, — Belgian, Wallonia, Brussels, Belgium, Charleroi, Liege
☆ Deal struck to send German-made Leopard 1 tanks from Belgium to Ukraine
  + stars: | 2023-08-08 | by ( Andrew Gray | Thomson Reuters | Andrew Is A Senior Correspondent For European Security | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +3 min
The German-made Leopards were at the centre of a public spat earlier this year after Belgian Defence Minister Ludivine Dedonder said the government had explored buying back tanks to send to Ukraine but had been quoted unreasonable prices. Freddy Versluys, CEO of defence company OIP Land Systems, bought the tanks from the Belgian government more than five years ago. The German Defence Ministry had no immediate comment. Several of Kyiv's Western allies agreed earlier this year to send modern Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine and also to send older Leopard 1 models. A spokesperson for the Belgian defence ministry declined to comment on the sale of the tanks.
Persons: Freddy Versluys, Read, Ludivine Dedonder, Germany's, Versluys, Krauss, Andrew Gray, Christoph Steitz, Sabine Siebold, Jonathan Oatis, Alex Richardson Organizations: OIP, Systems, Belgian, Leopards, Belgian Defence, Reuters, Rheinmetall, LinkedIn, NATO, German Defence Ministry, Maffei, Thomson Locations: Belgian, Ukraine, Wallonia, Germany, Tournais, Belgium, BRUSSELS, Vilnius
☆ Belgian arms trader tangles with minister over tanks for Ukraine
  + stars: | 2023-02-01 | by ( Andrew Gray | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +6 min
REUTERS/Yves HermanTOURNAI, Belgium, Feb 1 (Reuters) - Freddy Versluys does not like to be called an arms dealer. Tanks sold for 10-15,000 euros each are being offered for sale at 500,000 euros, despite not being operational, she has said. That would mean a unit price of 40,000 euros for 50 tanks, or some 60,600 euros for 33. The Leopard 1 is the predecessor of the Leopard 2 tanks that Germany, Poland, Finland and other countries agreed last month to send to Ukraine. He worked as an engineer in the Belgian military before going into business.
☆ Explainer: COP27: What is 'Loss and Damage' compensation, and who should pay?
  + stars: | 2022-11-06 | by ( Kate Abnett | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +5 min
That has intensified developing country demands for a special "Loss and Damage" fund. But with rich countries resisting such calls, the issue has been stalled for years. Loss and damage funding would be different, in compensating costs that countries can't avoid or "adapt" to. Vulnerable countries and campaigners have argued that rich countries that caused the bulk of climate change with their historical emissions should now pay. Meanwhile, climate-vulnerable countries are seeking contributions for a pilot loss and damage funding facility.
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