SNCB to run extra trains this weekend to the coast

Friday, 20 April 2018 19:12
SNCB to run extra trains this weekend to the coast
Due to the hot weather expected over the weekend, SNCB has announced they will run extra trains to the Belgian coast.
Sausage warning: products recalled due to salmonella

Sausage warning: products recalled due to salmonella

Friday, 20 April 2018 18:31
The sausages concerned have been sold in about 30 stores throughout Belgium.
Maaseik network: Nine combattants, recruiters sentenced to 3 – 10 years in jail

Maaseik network: Nine combattants, recruiters sentenced to 3 – 10 years in jail

Friday, 20 April 2018 17:48
Nine fighters and recruiters of the Maaseik network were sentenced on Friday to terms ranging from a three-year suspended sentence to 10 years in prison by the Brussels Correctional Court.
Hicham Diop had been a professional kick-boxer in the past and also served in the military.

Hicham Diop receives 15-year prison sentence

Friday, 20 April 2018 17:22
On Friday, the Brussels Court of Appeal sentenced Hicham Diop to 15 years in prison, for having attempted to kill two policemen in Schaerbeek in October 2016.
Clients, employees confined to bank following discovery of suspicious envelope

Clients, employees confined to bank following discovery of suspicious envelope

Friday, 20 April 2018 16:47
Clients and employees of a bank in La Hulpe were kept inside the establishment from Friday morning following the discovery of an envelope containing a suspicious powder, according to the Mazerine police precinct.
Hallerbos: “The blue forest”

Hallerbos: “The blue forest”

Friday, 20 April 2018 16:05
Hallerbos forest situated 20 kms south of Brussels on the border between Flanders and Wallonia, has for a long time been one of the best kept secrets in Belgium.
Taxi drivers in Flanders will need to know Dutch

Taxi drivers in Flanders will need to know Dutch

Friday, 20 April 2018 15:58
Knowledge of Dutch will be a requirement for anyone wishing to be a taxi driver in Flanders, under a draft decree approved by the Flemish Government on Friday.

High increase in parcels lost in post

Friday, 20 April 2018 14:33
Last year the Ombudsman for Postal Services received 887 complaints for misplaced parcels, an increase of 66% compared to the previous year.
Approximately 230 wind turbines are currently along the coastline at Zeebrugge, to which a further 200 will be added over the next few years.

Government wishes to double North Sea wind turbine capacity

Friday, 20 April 2018 13:53
The federal government wishes to double wind capacity in the North Sea by 2025.
The Flemish movement was afraid that French would keep spreading beyond Brussels as the dominant language if the university in Leuven remained a Francophone university.

Three questions to Philosopher Philippe Van Parijs about Belgium in 1968

Friday, 20 April 2018 12:07
We are about to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the May 1968 event in Paris. What was the mood in Brussels at the time?