Koba Ryckewaert

2 months ago | nytimes.com | Koba Ryckewaert |Jeanna Smialek

Belgium reached an agreement to form a coalition government on Friday, the nation's monarchy announced, ending seven months of partisan squabbling over deeply unpopular proposed cuts to social spending and other issues. Full details about the agreement were yet to be officially released. The new government was formed under the stewardship of Bart De Wever, the leader of a conservative Flemish nationalist party, the New Flemish Alliance.

Dec 18, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Meg Kelly |Imogen Piper |Souad Mekhennet |Koba Ryckewaert

Visual Forensics A Washington Post visual reconstruction reveals the elements that led to escalation of violence around the Ajax-Maccabi soccer match. A shaky camera follows a group of men running down the street. Some are wearing the blue and yellow of Tel Aviv's Maccabi soccer team, which had just lost a match to the local Ajax Amsterdam squad.

Jun 9, 2024 | nytimes.com | Koba Ryckewaert

Voters in Belgium handed a victory to a conservative Flemish nationalist party, disproving polls that had predicted a sweep to first place by Flemish secessionists, preliminary results showed on Sunday. The New Flemish Alliance, a party that seeks greater autonomy for the Dutch-speaking northern half of Belgium, was poised in the national elections to become the country's largest.

Jun 8, 2024 | nytimes.com | Matina Stevis-Gridneff |Koba Ryckewaert

In the United States, Donald J. Trump and Joe Biden can barely agree to share a stage for a debate. In Belgium, the politicians who will face off on Sunday in the country's most contested general election in years agreed to a four-episode reality show filmed over a weekend and set in a castle - moat and all. The show, a political version of "The Bachelor," called " The Conclave," transfixed Belgians in the run up to the vote for the country's national and regional parliaments.

May 23, 2024 | banoyi.com | Koba Ryckewaert

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