13 februari 2024
‘Alleen met een geloofwaardige defensiemacht kan Europa de veiligheid van haar burgers verdedigen’
Europa
6 februari 2024
Today, as we celebrate Safer Internet Day across Europe and beyond, we must acknowledge that we are facing a race against time as legislators when it comes to providing a safer internet for kids. The Internet offers a tremendous wealth of opportunities for children and has proven an essential tool in young people’s lives. But with that, it has also created unprecedented social distortions and challenges that put children’s rights and children’s health in jeopardy.
14 november 2023
It is certain that children – yet once again – are those paying the highest toll in this conflict. The latest figures put the number of casualties in Gaza at over 10.000 people, out of which 4000 children. This war has become a war on children and we cannot be complicit in this indiscriminate slaughter of children! We are facing a risk of having a lost generation in Gaza and the horrors and unprecedented violence suffered by all children in Israel and Gaza are likely to have a major negative impact in their development in life. We need to put a stop to this now before it is too late.
15 mei 2023
De Natuurherstelwet van de Europese Commissie kijkt te veel naar het verleden, vinden vier parlementsleden van Open VLD. Ze pleiten voor een natuurdefinitie waarin innovatie voorgaat […]
19 april 2023
Children are the most vulnerable in times of war and it is always they who pay the highest toll during crises. Russia’s brutal war in Ukraine […]
18 april 2023
Belgium (Brussels Morning Newspaper) The visits to China by European leaders in the last weeks should have been a display of a strong and united Europe. It […]
16 maart 2023
Belgium, (Brussels Morning Newspaper) What has Europe learned from over one year of Russia’s brutal war of aggression in Ukraine? What have we learned about our European […]
24 februari 2023
‘We hadden zoveel meer kunnen bereiken, als we meteen eendrachtig hadden opgetreden’, schrijven Hilde Vautmans en Guy Verhofstadt. Het is vrijdag 24 februari dag op dag […]
9 februari 2023
Today marks the 20th anniversary of the Safer Internet Day. 20 years might not seem such a long time, but in the digital world it is […]
24 oktober 2022
Belgium, (Brussels Morning Newspaper) 10,000, 18,000 to 30,000 missing children in migration between 2016 and 2020. These are the rough figures from one year ago and concern […]
4 oktober 2022
Over 130 deaths and still counting. We all know the brutal story. Public protests in Iran broke out after Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, died in […]
22 september 2022
Het is september 2022 en opnieuw staan de rechtsstaat en fundamentele rechten in Europa fel onder druk. Voornamelijk de schrijnende situatie in Hongarije baart velen van […]
14 september 2022
Belgium (Brussels Morning Newspaper) Today, Commission President, Ursula Von der Leyen addressed the European Parliament during her annual ‘State of the Union’. Despite huge challenges and fine […]
5 juli 2022
Today is a historic day. Europe is the first continent in the world to thoroughly reform our digital space through the Digital Services Act (DSA) and […]
4 juli 2022
This week the now-expired French EU presidency is set to announce the agreed relocation pledges under their solidarity plan. Together with an agreement on Eurodac and screening, the European […]
28 juni 2022
Op internet circuleren handleidingen voor misbruikers, met uitleg over hoe ze kinderen kunnen ‘verleiden’. Ook Vlaamse pedofielen laten zich erdoor inspireren, blijkt uit onderzoek van onze […]
27 juni 2022
‘Het pleidooi voor een gemeenschappelijke EU-defensie is geen theorie meer, maar keiharde noodzaak’, schrijft europarlementslid Hilde Vautmans bij de start van de NAVO-top in Madrid. Deze week […]
10 juni 2022
Belgium, (Brussels Morning Newspaper) Enlargement is Europe’s eternal question and it is the biggest, most effective step the European Union can take to strengthen its geopolitical influence, […]
10 mei 2022
‘Een politieke Europese Unie vraagt om Europese democratie, om een debat dat gevoerd wordt in Europese en niet louter nationale termen’, schrijven europarlementsleden Guy Verhofstadt en […]
11 maart 2022
Europees Parlementslid Hilde Vautmans (Open Vld) hoopt dat de Franse president Macron, de komende zes maanden voorzitter van Europa, de lont uit het Russisch-Oekraïens kruitvat trekt […]
10 maart 2022
2021 has been a year of challenges. Many of us have suffered restrictions on freedoms that we take for granted. Some of us have lost loved […]
10 maart 2022
2021 was an intense year – for Europeans, for liberals, for the European Liberal Forum (ELF). Despite the ongoing pandemic, life was not put on hold […]
10 maart 2022
‘Volgend jaar een nieuwe crisis afwachten, is geen optie. Het is duidelijk dat we Europa moeten vernieuwen’, schrijft europarlementslid Hilde Vautmans na de State of the […]
10 maart 2022
Introducing the first chapter of the 2021 Liberal White Book, Hilde Vautmans MEP sets out the key reforms that would revive the EU’s institutional framework. The […]