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Business News | Bond, Debond, Recycle - Tesa Opens New Debonding on Demand Laboratory in Singapore
PRNewswire Singapore, July 3: tesa, international manufacturer of adhesive tapes and self-adhesive product solutions, is laying the foundation for future adhesive tapes with the opening of a state-of-the-art Debonding on Demand development...

Crypto Goes Mainstream In Belgium As KBC Launches Retail Trading
Belgium’s KBC Bank is set to open the door to cryptocurrencies for everyday investors. Based on reports from Belga News Agency, the bank will let retail clients buy Bitcoin and Ether through its Bolero platform starting this autumn. It’s a first...

Belgium’s KBC bank plans crypto offering after CACEIS gets MiCA license
Belgium’s KBC bank plans to provide a cryptocurrency retail offering via its Bolero banking app, Les Echo reported. First it needs to get approval as a crypto asset service provider (CASP), which could make it the first Belgian firm to land a...

Lidl Belgium is nation’s first retailer to offer a plant-based minced beef mix
Lidl Belgium is the first supermarket in the country to introduce a combination of 60% beef and 40% vegetable proteins in a plant-based minced beef mix. The product looks and tastes like classic minced beef, but has much lower CO₂ emissions, up to...

Confidence holds in European hospitality, but skills and tech gaps persist
Booking.com’s fifth European Accommodation Barometer reveals a sector broadly confident ahead of the 2025 peak season, but facing widening disparities in training capacity, recruitment capabilities and digital uptake Despite geopolitical tensions...

The Health Wrap: serendipity in science, cannabis concerns, latest on Trump et al – and some good news
When it comes to public health and research, the Trump Administration continues to be on the attack, with significant implications for Australia in areas ranging from vaccination to cancer research and the spread of misinformation and...

Belgium Women vs Italy Women Prediction and Betting Tips | July 3rd 2025
Belgium Women and Italy Women will battle for three points in their opening game of the 2025 UEFA Women's European Championship on Thursday (July 3rd). The game will be played at Stade de Tourbillon. Belgium finalized preparations for the...

Summer Hammann selected for Belgian Dairy Breeders School
Barron native Summer Hammann will represent the U.S. at the Young Breeders School competition in Belgium later this summer. Photo contributed Tessa Schmocker A Barron native has been selected to attend a special dairy breeders school in Belgium....
Belgian magazines exposed for using AI to write articles under the names of ‘fake journalists’
Menzies Research Centre’s Freya Leach discusses the Belgian editions of Elle and Marie Claire being caught using AI to write several articles which were published under the names of “fake journalists”. “One of their ‘journalists’ Sophie Vermeulen...

New open-access journal AI for Science aims to revolutionize scientific discovery
AI4S will meet the need for high-quality journals dedicated to artificial intelligence Intelligent read: the new diamond open-access journal AI for Science will meet the need for high-quality journals dedicated to artificial intelligence...

Will US tech workers get the right to disconnect?
The tech industry is known for its culture of long working days and employees putting in extra hours, either to get a project completed or because they’re collaborating with colleagues in another time zone. The last thing tech workers want after...

From protecting patients to predicting disasters: AI supercharges nuclear tech
EU-funded researchers are using AI to transform nuclear technology, making medical scans safer, streamlining nuclear plant maintenance and allowing earlier prediction of earthquakes. By Tom Cassauwers Whenever you have a scan at a hospital, both...

Drylock Technologies Offers Packaging Breakthrough
Drylock Technologies is unveiling a breakthrough in packaging—a new, patented nonwoven solution that showcases a product's exceptional softness before the packaging is even opened. The packaging, which was developed in partnership with the major...

MR proposes relaunch of mining in Belgium
Francophone liberal party MR is proposing to relaunch mining in Belgium, with a call for the reconstruction of a complete value chain, from mine to recycling. The energy transition is causing demand for metals to skyrocket and Europe must reduce...

Belgian prosecutors initiates probe into Worldline
Belgian prosecutors have launched an investigation into the Belgian unit of French payments processor Worldline, following allegations of money laundering activities. The probe was triggered by articles in Le Soir and De Standaard, which claimed...

New Technology, Old Injustice: Data-driven discrimination and profiling in police and prisons in Europe
Topic Country/Region 30 June 2025 Police and criminal legal system authorities across Europe are increasingly using data-based systems and tools to ‘predict’ where crime will occur, to profile people as criminals and to assess the ‘risk’ of crime...

‘Nasa is being savaged’ — budget cuts and politics put space exploration in jeopardy
It put a man on the moon, sent a rover to Mars and unlocked some of the greatest secrets of the universe. But for all Nasa’s past achievements, team spirit is in the doldrums.“It’s not a happy time to work at Nasa right now,” said Casey Dreier,...

European Union Says Tech Laws ‘Off the Table’ in US Trade Talks
U.S. and European Union flags outside the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, on Feb. 20, 2017. Francois Lenoir/Reuters The European Union pushed back against American criticism of its tech rules amid ongoing trade negotiations...

Face of 10,500-year-old Belgian woman revived, revealing ancient Europeans were dark
In a meeting of art and science, researchers from Ghent University worked with artists to reconstruct the face of a woman who lived in Belgium 10,500 years ago, and she revealed that diversity in skin tone existed as far back as the Stone Age. But...

30 June 1960 Independence of the ‘Belgian' Congo. Belgium's colonial crimes in the Congo. A duty to remember
Historical context of the colonization of the Congo At the end of the 18th century, over a hundred years before the Congo was colonized by Leopold II, the thirteen British colonies in North America, were liberated from the British crown after...