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Police officers fired at a car in the Mollenbeck district of Brussels and called for sappers after the driver said explosives were in the car, Belgium's federal prosecutor's office were quoted by Reuters.

Brussels is preparing to retaliate against the US if it goes ahead with new sanctions on Russia "that hit European companies," the Financial Times is reporting.

The Hungarian foreign ministry has declared its support for Poland which is under fire from the European Commission over its domestic judicial reforms.

"We stand by Poland, and we call on the European Commission not to overstep its authority," Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said in a statement Thursday as quoted by Reuters.

Turkey and the EU are due to hold a high-level political dialogue meeting in Brussels on July 25, private broadcaster CNN Türk has reported.

A Belgian government official said security will remain high on June 21 at Brussels rail facilities after a man blew up an explosive device at the city's Central Station.

Belgian troops shot a suspected “terrorist” bomber in Brussels Central Station on Tuesday but there were no other casualties and the situation was brought under control after people were evacuated, officials said.

BRUSSELS - The European Commission expects Serbia's economic growth to stabilise over the next two years as, in 2016, the economy expanded 2.8 pct faster than expected.

This is one of the conclusions of a yearly overview and country assessments of 2017-2019 Economic Reform Programmes of the Western Balkan countries and Turkey, issued by the European Commission.

Serbia will by the end of June be ready to open five negotiation chapters in its EU accession talks, Serbia's chief negotiator with the Tanja Miscevic has said.

It is still unknown when the next intergovernmental conference in Brussels will be held and how many chapters we will open, but we are maintaining the pace of the process, Miscevic said, according to Tanjug.

BRUSSELS - Serbian PM and President-elect Aleksandar Vucic has said Wednesday's meeting of Western Balkan PMs in Brussels had demonstrated that everyone understood the need to maintain peace and stability in the region, and that he had reiterated his idea of establishing a customs union.

One year ago Belgium was reeling from an attack by three suicide bombers on Brussels airport and a metro station in the capital.

Thirty-two people were killed and others were injured. The perpetrators were identified as Islamists extremists who were all Belgian nationals.