Delhaize Group press release - Delhaize Group joins Coopernic
BRUSSELS, Belgium, 29 September 2014 - Delhaize Group is pleased to announce that it will join Coopernic, the European Buying Alliance as from January 2015. Coopernic is currently formed around E. Leclerc and will be joined this October by Coop Italia.
State schoolkids set to make a mark at Denmark climate meet
They are the only group of children from Asia to be participating in the event along with children from six other countries - Denmark, Belgium, Sweden, Ghana, Nigeria and Zambia. "We got to know about it only a week ago. When we came to know that we are ...
Failed cancer vaccines might could get new lease of life
Johan Vansteenkiste of Belgium's University Hospitals Leuven, who led research into use of MAGE-A3 in lung cancer, reported full results of the failure at a medical meeting on Sunday and said the setback was a clear disappointment. But he thinks the new ...
Hazard rules out PSG switch
Hazard's Chelsea future was debated heavily throughout the close-season, with the Belgium international continually linked to Ligue 1 champions PSG. But the PFA Young Player of the Year has no intention of returning to France, amid confirmation from ...
How Belgium Became a Jihadist-Recruiting Hub
ANTWERP, Belgium—Nabil Kasmi left for Syria’s battlefields in May 2012, the first jihadist an extremist Islamic group named Sharia4Belgium dispatched from this city, Belgian authorities allege. On Monday, the 23-year-old Mr. Kasmi and 45 other Sharia4Belgium members will go on trial, in Europe’s mos ...
Escaping the train to Auschwitz
On 19 April 1943, a train carrying 1,631 Jews set off from a Nazi detention camp in Belgium for the gas chambers of Auschwitz. But resistance fighters stopped the train. One boy who jumped to freedom that night retains vivid memories, 70 years later. In February 1943, 11-year-old Simon Gronowski was ...
Sunday night links
1. Chart of the Day. The CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis reported this week on world trade and world industrial production through July. Over the most recent 12-month period, world trade increased by 2.8% and world industrial output increased by 3.4%. Compared to their 2008 peaks ...
Rocacorba Daily
In this morning’s edition of the Rocacorba Daily news digest: Michal Kwiatkowski solos to victory in men’s world championship road race; Pauline Ferrand-Prevot wins women’s world championship road race; Sven Erik Bystrom wins men’s U23 world championship road race; Gerrans: ‘At the end of the day, I ...
On the Chocolate Trail in Brussels
The capital of Belgium may be known as the Capital of Europe, but it is also, at least as far as most chocolate aficionados are concerned, the World Capital of Chocolate. Ever since the Brussels chocolatier Jean Neuhaus invented the praline 100 years ago, the city has been at the forefront of the ch ...
