2023 in Belgium
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Events in the year 2023 in Belgium.
- Monarch: Philippe[1]
- Prime Minister: Alexander De Croo[2]
Events
- 10 March – Belgium banned TikTok from all federal government work devices over cybersecurity, privacy, and misinformation concerns.[3]
- 5 May – Belgian authorities arrest an Iraqi Al-Qaeda member and charge him with murder, terrorism, war crimes, and crimes against humanity, for his role in the deaths of at least 376 people and the wounding of over 2,300 others more than a decade ago in Iraq.[4]
- 9 May — Flemish Canon published.
- 13 May – Belgium in the Eurovision Song Contest 2023[5]
- 3 September — Luc Terlinden consecrated as Archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels.[6]
- 4 September — Belgian state makes unprecedented retail bond issue for €22 billion.[7]
- 16 October — 2023 Brussels terrorist attack: Two Swedish nationals are killed during a shooting near the central railway station in Brussels, Belgium. The perpetrator escaped from the scene.[8]
- 17 October — Police in Brussels, Belgium, fatally shoot Tunisian Abdesalem Lassoued, 45, an Islamic State sympathizer in a cafe, who shot two Swedish tourists the previous day.[9]
- 15 December — A joint text message traffic investigation by the Financial Times, Der Spiegel and Le Monde reveals that Belgian Vlaams Belang politician Frank Creyelman accepted bribes from the Chinese Ministry of State Security for three years to influence discussions within the European Union. He was subsequently expelled from the party.[10]
- 18 December — Largest criminal trial in Belgian history begins in Brussels, with 125 defendants accused of drug trafficking, arms trafficking, kidnapping, extortion, forgery, and money laundering.[11][12]
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