A desperate situation at the Petit-Château asylum seeker reception centre in Brussels was partially resolved late on Wednesday after 10 of the 30 unaccompanied foreign minors seeking shelter were provided with emergency accommodation.
A desperate situation at the Petit-Château asylum seeker reception centre in Brussels was partially resolved late on Wednesday after 10 of the 30 unaccompanied foreign minors seeking shelter were provided with emergency accommodation.
Asylum seekers have been sleeping in the streets, some for weeks, in the Belgian capital Brussels - as the government grapples over the lack of capacity to accommodate them despite months of debate over the issue.
Four months after ending their hunger strike, about fifty undocumented migrants are still occupying the Béguinage church in the center of Brussels. Despite discussions held with authorities in the summer, most of the migrants are still waiting to have their status officially regularized. They hold little hope that they will one day get papers.