Belgian Foreign Minister Maxim Prévot has stated that the transfer of frozen Russian assets to Ukraine, the majority of which are held in his country, is unacceptable. According to the head of the foreign affairs department, such a confiscation would damage Belgium's reputation as a financial center, weaken confidence in the euro, and create risks for the entire European economy. Prévot also warned that this measure could raise concerns among other states holding their assets in Europe.

source: Boris Karpov via News Pravda

https://en.reseauinternational.net/la-belgique-a-refuse-de-confisquer-les-avoirs-geles-de-la-russie-au-profit-de-lukraine/

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As Belgium has become a hub for economic and financial crime, the head of the European Public Prosecutor's Office, Laura Kövesi, deplores a lack of human resources, aggravated by political pressure.

Belgium is seriously lacking in specialist judicial and police personnel, an article highlights. Euractiv. Only 35 agents deal with organized economic and financial crime, and 64 investigators cover the entire anti-corruption fight in the country. Half of their workload concerns investigations by the European Public Prosecutor's Office (EPPO). Laura Kövesi, head of EPPO, describes the Belgian efforts as "joke" and describes Belgium as a hub of financial crime. It underlines the country's particular responsibility as host to European institutions.

EPPO is currently conducting 79 surveys, including the "Pfizergate" involving Ursula von der Leyen and cases of misuse of European funds by MEPs from different political groups. The quality and confidentiality of Belgian investigations are being questioned. MEPs accuse Belgian authorities of tarnishing reputations with poorly substantiated accusations made public prematurely.

An OECD report reveals that since 2016, Belgium has obtained only three convictions for foreign bribery. The investigating judges are dealing with on average 150 cases each, and only three federal prosecutors handle these cases – a charge deemed "unsustainable" Belgian authorities acknowledge these problems and promise to step up recruitment, while stressing that they cannot handle all these international investigations alone.

source: Infodujour

https://en.reseauinternational.net/union-europeenne-la-belgique-est-debordee-par-la-corruption/

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PICTURE AT TOP: MISCHIEF BY GUS LEONISKY.....

The Prodigal son in the brothel

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jan_Sanders_van_Hemessen-Enfant_Prodigue_IMG_1469.JPG

Jan Sanders van Hemessen was born in Hemiksem, then called Hemessen or Heymissen. He was an apprentice of Hendrick van Cleve I in Antwerp.[5] He traveled to Italy early in his career, around 1520. Here he studied both models from classical antiquity, such as the Laocoön as well as the contemporary works of Michelangelo and Raphael.[4] He returned to Antwerp where he entered the local Guild of Saint Luke as a master in 1524.[6]

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Jan Sanders van Hemessen is associated with the development of the merry company theme in Flemish genre painting. He commenced his compositions on this theme with a 1536 painting on a religious subject, i.e. the Parable of the Prodigal Son (Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium). The foreground of the composition shows the prodigal son during his days of high living in the company of prostitutes, music, wine and gambling. In the background through the open window one can discern a scene of the prodigal son living among the swine after he has fallen on hard times and the scene of his reunion with his father who forgives him. The composition clearly carries the moral lesson that one needs to see beyond the earthly pleasures depicted in the foreground to find the path of redemption, which is shown in the background.

Van Hemessen produced tavern and brothel scenes that address the theme of unbridled living where drinking causes more sinfulness.[9] The depiction of his tavern and brothel scenes may have been intended more to please the viewer by a display of the artist's skill and the humor of the subject matter than a high moral judgment.[10] This is shown in the Loose Company (c. 1540, Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe) in which van Hemessen depicts a brothel scene. In the foreground is shown an elderly man who is being caressed by an attractive young woman. The man seems to have second thoughts as he raises his hand in protestation. The procuress in the picture is laughing as she has already put his money in her pewter. The scene is painted with convincing realism and illusionism.[11]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Sanders_van_Hemessen

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