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Leo Cendrowicz

@leocendro.bsky.social
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Brussels correspondent, i newspaper Editor of The Brussels Times Magazine Waterslide tester

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Leo Cendrowicz @leocendro.bsky.social · 6h
Willem de Kooning showed his brilliant drawing talents early on, but he was also an art pioneer, mastering many new forms and styles, as a new show at @rijksmuseum.bsky.social reveals
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Leo Cendrowicz @leocendro.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
EU folks have responded warmly after Andy Burnham opened the door to returning: inews.co.uk/news/world/m...
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EU open to reversing Brexit after Burnham speech - but at a price
Andy Burnham has made the EU take note – but a Brexit reset would test everyone
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Leo Cendrowicz @leocendro.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
As for apartments, the architect Josse Franssen pioneered the everyday Brussels modernist blocks. @goodclimate.bsky.social profiles the man who helped shape the capital’s suburbs.
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Leo Cendrowicz @leocendro.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Belgium’s institutions can look permanent. Its politics, economy, energy system, buildings and communities tell a different story: they are constantly being remade. That tension between inheritance and change runs through the new @brusselstimes.com Magazine. Out now. 🇧🇪 13/
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Leo Cendrowicz @leocendro.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
And there’s culture, food and escape. Sarah Schug meets performance artist Miet Warlop, Angela Dansby visits Roeselare for a weekend, Hughes Belin explores the art of cooking, Kurt Karlsson rounds up what to see and do this autumn, and Geoff Meade falls into an online rabbit hole. 🎨🍽️ 12/
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Leo Cendrowicz @leocendro.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Jimi Hendrix in Belgium. A sanctuary giving broken animals a second life. The Bald Brotherhood turns 60. And a murder in the EU bubble. This issue takes a few unexpected detours too. 🎸🐾 11/
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Leo Cendrowicz @leocendro.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Brussels has many cozy bookshops, but surviving in the age of Amazon, ebooks and soaring costs takes ingenuity, as Jon Eldridge discovers: www.brusselstimes.com/magazine/232... 📚 10/
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Reading the room: Brussels bookshops turn the page
From Passa Porta’s multilingual literary hub to the dazzling Tropismes, the reborn Filigranes, Standaard Boekhandel and a century-old English bookselling tradition at Waterstones, Brussels has a remar...
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Leo Cendrowicz @leocendro.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Lisa Bradshaw meets filmmaker Lukas Dhont, whose new Cannes prizewinning movie Coward tells of a lost First World War tale: drag shows. Elsewhere: laughing gas is no laughing matter. The scattered nitrous oxide cans on the streets tell of its spread, as @dominiquesoenens.bsky.social reports. 9/
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Leo Cendrowicz @leocendro.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Brussels has plenty of empty offices. It also has a chronic shortage of affordable homes. Turning one into the other sounds obvious – until you try to do it. Liz Newmark examines whether at office conversions really help ease the capital’s housing crisis 🏢🏠 8/
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Leo Cendrowicz @leocendro.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Belgium was built for cold and damp. Increasingly, it has to cope with something else: extreme heat. 🌡️ After a summer of heatwaves and wildfires, Marie-Flore Pirmez and Philippa Nuttall ask whether its homes, hospitals, cities and infrastructure are ready for a warmer climate. 7/
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Leo Cendrowicz @leocendro.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Six decades ago, Belgium encouraged workers from Morocco to help power its economy. They came temporarily. Many stayed. Today, their descendants are part of the fabric of the country. Ahmed Medhoune and Christophe Sokal look at the Belgium they helped build. 🇧🇪🇲🇦 6/
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Leo Cendrowicz @leocendro.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
For eons, Brussels’ Palace of Justice was almost as famous for its scaffolding as for its architecture. Now, at last, parts of its restored façade are emerging. Paul Meller unwraps one of Belgium’s most extraordinary buildings – and its very long makeover. 5/
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Leo Cendrowicz @leocendro.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Belgium spent two decades preparing to abandon nuclear power. Now it is extending reactors, exploring a new generation of mini-nukes and rediscovering atomic energy. @DennisAbbott asks how Belgium learnt to love nuclear power? ⚛️ 4/
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Leo Cendrowicz @leocendro.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It was built to project solidity and permanence. The National Bank’s monumental Brussels headquarters has survived war, the disappearance of the Belgian franc and the arrival of the euro. We explore the architecture of money. 🏦 3/
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Leo Cendrowicz @leocendro.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Belgium’s economy has proved remarkably resilient. But it is also, National Bank Governor Pierre Wunsch warns, short on dynamism. He talks growth, Europe, power politics – and why liberal democracy matters more than central bank independence. www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/2326... 2/
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Banking on Belgium: Why liberal democracy matters more than central bank independence
Pierre Wunsch talks about why Europe must adapt to a harsher world of power politics, why economic resilience masks a lack of dynamism – and why liberal democracy matters more than central bank indepe...
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Leo Cendrowicz @leocendro.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The new @brusselstimes.com Magazine is out. 🇧🇪 Why does Belgium still need a national bank in the age of the euro and the ECB? Tim King meets Governor Pierre Wunsch, who argues that the National Bank of Belgium (NBB) is a vital institution in an uncertain world. 🧵 1/
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Leo Cendrowicz @leocendro.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The EU is ready to take a leap with Canada, despite the ocean between them. It seems unscripted, but the improvisation is a sign of the times. And, as ever, Britain gazes across the Channel and asks, "What does it mean focus?" inews.co.uk/news/politic...
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The new obstacle to Burnham's Brexit reset
Does offer of 'associate membership' of EU to Canada mean a new kind of deal for the UK is achievable?
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Leo Cendrowicz @leocendro.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Half a century ago, the Brussels metro's orange and aluminium trains opened their doors to ferry passengers into the future. An extraordinary engineering project, and still unfinished, it has today grown into the backbone of the capital’s transport system: www.brusselstimes.com/brussels/231...
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Brussels metro at 50: The underground railway that reshaped the capital
The history of Brussels metro network is one of extraordinary engineering, bold architecture and ambitious expansion – but also disruption, tragedy and one conspicuously unfinished line.
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Leo Cendrowicz @leocendro.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Val Saint Lambert, the crystalmaker based in an abbey near Seraing, celebrates its bicentenary this year - making it older that Belgium itself. How did it survive for so long? www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/2303...
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The crystal phoenix: 200 years of Val Saint Lambert
It is difficult to decide which is more impressive: the speed, the choreography or the sheer confidence of two glassblowers who make an extraordinarily difficult process look almost effortless.
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Leo Cendrowicz @leocendro.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
After 40 years, the Palace of Justice in Brussels is finally free of scaffolding and clean...well, at least the front facade and the main portico, which were officially reopened today
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Leo Cendrowicz @leocendro.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The Brussels public transport operator, STIB/MIVB, has a great tribute to #DollyParton
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Leo Cendrowicz @leocendro.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Iceland is voting on starting EU membership talks. Could this point the way for the UK? inews.co.uk/news/world/e...
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The European country that could point the way for Britain to rejoin the EU
This fiercely independent island in the North Atlantic is weighing up joining the bloc
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Leo Cendrowicz @leocendro.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
The town of Auronzo, in the Dolomites, has put sculptures of prehistoric creatures along its river. Don’t laugh - the dog was frightened by them.
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Leo Cendrowicz @leocendro.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
The rat pack: The Belgian idea helping reclaim the world's minefields: www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/2253...
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Why Cambodia built a statue to a Belgian-trained rat
Standing 2.2 metres tall in the Cambodian city of Siem Reap, the newly unveiled statue of Magawa is perhaps the most unusual war memorial in the world.
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Leo Cendrowicz @leocendro.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
What does the EU think of Andy Burnham? inews.co.uk/news/politic...
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EU exasperated by UK's seventh PM in 10 years – and even wary of Remainer Burnham
Brussels has learnt the hard way not to become emotionally invested in British prime ministers
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Leo Cendrowicz @leocendro.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
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How Brussels ended up with Europe's most embarrassing square – and what might be done to save it
Instead of the elegant Schuman Square promised by architects, officials and politicians, visitors arriving at the European quarter are greeted by a vast expanse of pale concrete.
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Leo Cendrowicz @leocendro.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
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Europe’s top Rabbi accuses Belgian minister of 'appeasing Muslim voters' over circumcision row
Chief Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt told The Brussels Times that many Jews viewed the controversy as "no less challenging to Jewish life than attacks on people in the streets".
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Leo Cendrowicz @leocendro.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Red Devil signs for Red Devils
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Leo Cendrowicz @leocendro.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Cagnes isn’t bad either
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Leo Cendrowicz @leocendro.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Visited the Renoir Museum in Cagnes-sur-Mer. Idyllic
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Leo Cendrowicz @leocendro.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
As a Brit and Belgian - and a human - I definitely relate to that
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Leo Cendrowicz @leocendro.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
US Ambassador to Belgium Bill White says there’s nothing fishy about his president calling the head of FIFA to demand they suspend the red card of a Team USA player. “Trump would never interfere,” he says. And if you believe that, I have a bridge to sell you… www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/2216...
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'Trump would never interfere': Bill White defends president as red card row engulfs Belgium clash
The US Ambassador to Belgium has dismissed suggestions that President Donald Trump meddled in FIFA’s decision to clear Balogun to face Belgium later tonight.
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Leo Cendrowicz @leocendro.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
NATO is holding a summit in Ankara this week. Europe has done all that Donald Trump has demanded, boosting spending and stepping up. However, his flaky mood could shatter any sense of unity and achievement. Me for the i: inews.co.uk/news/politic...
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Europe is building the Nato Trump wanted - at its own cost
Trump arrives in Turkey to a Nato in the process of changing. Whether he likes what he see remains to be seen.
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Leo Cendrowicz @leocendro.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Spoke about the big USA 250 birthday bash in Brussels and the dire state of transatlantic relations on @euronews.com ' Brussels, My Love? podcast, with Méabh McMahon, Ian Lesser and Lina Aburous: podcasts.euronews.com/euronews-bru...
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The US party that split Brussels
To mark the 250th anniversary of US independence, the US Embassy in Brussels threw a huge party at Parc du Cinquantenaire, in the heart of Brussels' ...
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Leo Cendrowicz @leocendro.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Mega electrical storm has erupted over Brussels tonight. It’s been like this for the past half hour
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Leo Cendrowicz @leocendro.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Cycled along the beautiful and tranquil Dender river this afternoon. Fun fact: The Dender, which is in Belgium, is also a tributary of the Reflecting Pool in Washington DC.
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James Kanter @jameskanter.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Trump's envoy to Belgium goes full alt-fact and calls anyone who doubts a "moron or a liar." Must-read interview with Bill White by Leo Cendrowicz. www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/2206...
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Why Trump's ambassador to Belgium insists everything is going perfectly
Ahead of America's 250th birthday celebrations in Brussels, US Ambassador to Belgium Bill White sat down with The Brussels Times. He was in a buoyant mood.
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Leo Cendrowicz @leocendro.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Bill White, the US ambassador to Belgium, is as Trumpian as his boss, insisting that everything is awesome - and doubters out there they are "morons or liars". He spoke to me ahead of the big US 250th birthday party in the Cinquantenaire in Brussels on Sunday: www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/2206...
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Why Trump's ambassador to Belgium insists everything is going perfectly
Ahead of America's 250th birthday celebrations in Brussels, US Ambassador to Belgium Bill White sat down with The Brussels Times. He was in a buoyant mood.
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Leo Cendrowicz @leocendro.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
That includes that man who coined the term Brexit: Peter Wilding writes about how his neologism came to haunt him: www.brusselstimes.com/magazine/220...
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The last of the Berlaymont Britons
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with me, and the Word was Brexit."
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Leo Cendrowicz @leocendro.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
And ten years after Brexit, Britain is still wrestling with the consequences of its biggest political decision in decades. We look at how it was felt in Brussels. Sport and politics, future and past, all in this month's issue. 🏑 🇪🇺
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Leo Cendrowicz @leocendro.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Artist Lionel Jadot. The new BRUSK museum in Bruges. A tour through some of the most interesting cultural projects currently reshaping Belgium. 🎨 🖼️ 🎬
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Leo Cendrowicz @leocendro.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
From medicinal herbs to axethrowing, from salad and quiche bars to a weekend break in Spa, this month's issue also finds time for leisure, food and a little restoration of the human spirit. 🌿🍷
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Leo Cendrowicz @leocendro.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
The Lion of Waterloo is roaring again. We revisit one of Belgium's most famous monuments and the stories that continue to shape the country's sense of itself. 🦁 🇧🇪
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Leo Cendrowicz @leocendro.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
In Mechelen, centuries-old tapestries are painstakingly restored. Elsewhere, a craftsman is bringing Beethoven's final piano back to life. Two stories about preserving Europe's cultural heritage, one thread at a time. 🧵🎹
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Leo Cendrowicz @leocendro.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
A cinema that refused to die. Embassies as symbols of national power. A Chinese-born heroine who saved Belgian lives. This month's issue is full of stories about people and institutions that have shaped modern Belgium. 🇧🇪
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Leo Cendrowicz @leocendro.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Does Brussels need a democratic rethink? Philippe Van Parijs argues the capital's institutions are no longer fit for purpose. One of several pieces in this month's magazine examining how Belgium's institutions are adapting to the future. 🏛️
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Leo Cendrowicz @leocendro.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
The question isn't whether Belgian rail has much to be proud of. It does. But passengers feel the system is falling behind. So the question is whether it has the imagination, urgency and management culture needed for the future.
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Leo Cendrowicz @leocendro.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Rail should be entering a golden age. Governments want fewer cars. Passenger demand is rising. So why does it often feel stuck in the past? We look at Belgium’s rail paradox: heavily used and subsidised – and still a source of frustration. www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/2203...
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After 100 years, can SNCB-NMBS stay on track?
Overcrowding, ageing infrastructure and questions over value for money continue to dog the network as Belgium's national railway operator marks its centenary.
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Leo Cendrowicz @leocendro.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Belgium's railway company turns 100 this year. 🇧🇪🚆 Passenger numbers are rising. Climate goals should favour trains. Yet the real rail experience is often delays, strikes, overcrowding and crumbling stations. The new @BrusselsTimes.com Magazine asks if SNCB-NMBS is ready for its second century?
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Leo Cendrowicz @leocendro.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Ten years on from the #Brexit vote, the damage to the UK is clear enough. But how does the EU see this epic act of self-harm? My analysis of the chaotic decade, as viewed by Britain's friends in Europe: inews.co.uk/news/politic...
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'We've moved on': Why Brexit ended up boosting the EU
Support for the EU surged in the bloc in the aftermath of the UK Brexit referendum, ten years ago
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