Belgian unions staged a one-day walkout on Monday in protest at the new federal government's planned austerity measures.

Public transport has ground to a halt in Brussels and nearly half of flights in and out of the city's international airport have been axed.

Philippe Peers, secretary of CGSP union, said the action had been called because the government is "attacking the workers while giving gifts to big companies, to the rich."

The government wants to cut welfare benefits and raise the reti…
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