• Belgian government negotiations hit by Covid-19 case
    Belgium's protracted government formation has been dealt an unexpected blow after one of the royal appointees tasked with exploring options ...
    Belgian government negotiations hit by Covid-19 case
    Belgium's protracted government formation has been dealt an unexpected blow after one of the royal appointees tasked with exploring options for a ...
    Flanders approves first football stadiums’ protocols to let public return
    The first protocols to allow the public to return to football stadiums in Flanders have been approved by Flemish Sports Minister Ben Weyts, he ...
  • Belgian ex-professor gets year in prison for using ‘study’ to sexually harass students
    An ex-professor at a Leuven university college has been sentenced to 12 months in prison with probation for the sexual harassment of several of his ...
    16th PrideFestival to start in Brussels on Saturday
    The 16th PrideFestival will have the theme #WeCare and will run from 12 to 26 September, RainbowHouse Brussels announced on Tuesday. Originally ...
  • Beer deliveries ‘will not be compromised’ by strike at Brussels AB InBev depot
    Clients will not be hit by delays in beer delivery despite a strike at the AB InBev depot in the Brussels municipality of Anderlecht on Tuesday, ...
    ‘I thought I was going to be executed here’: cartoonist Coco testifies at Charlie Hebdo trial
    Charlie Hebdo cartoonist Corinne Rey, also known as Coco, thought she would die executed after having been pointed at by the Kouachi brothers in the ...
    Three Brussels schools trigger quarantines after positive Covid-19 cases
    One week into the new school year, hundreds of pupils and dozens of school staff in the Brussels Region have been quarantined following the detection ...
    Essential workers’ salaries fall short of the Belgian average
    The monthly salaries of many people in essential professions are far below the Belgian average, according to data by Belgian statistical office ...
    When do we get a vaccine? 5 plans, no answer
    As several coronavirus vaccines across the world have reached the final testing phases now, at least five different predictions for when a working ...
  • Opinion
    Even though it has been a year since the new period began in The European Parliament and since I was elected ...
    When many think that something is impossible, all can be possible if you believe. MEP Romeo Franz is a ...
    The Eurobubble has changed. Whereas once the collection of European institutions and the organisations that ...
    Food prices have risen sharply in Belgium when compared to the summer of last year: + 13% for fresh fruit, + ...
    One of the EU’s key achievements is freedom of movement. Nearly 17 million EU citizens live in another EU ...
    The surge in the hateful extremist activity during the COVID-19 has alarmed the British government and forced ...
    As a summer of social and political upheaval continues to tax stretched emergency services across Europe, ...
    Power and freedom, the two opposites in mutual strife against one another since the beginning of time. ...
    EU-China relations have reached a current phase of co-opetition, in which the EU has identified China at the ...
    New Eurostat data for the second quarter of 2020 shows that Poland is among the top three countries in terms ...
    Magazine
    Adapting to new realities: how governments best can handle the economic disruption of the pandemic
    It has been a miserable year so far. Not only has the coronavirus killed hundreds of thousands Europeans, it has also confined the rest of ...
    Filling in the void: The rise of ‘legalised squats’ in Brussels
    Ungoverned and ubiquitous, the 20th municipality of Brussels sprawls unnoticed throughout the capital region’s territory. Put together, ...
    How Belgium became the (food) start-up nation
    In his entrepreneurship bestseller, From zero to one, Paypal founder Peter Thiel teaches that innovation is at the heart of any start-up’s ...
    In search of the invisible enemy: Brussels under lockdown
    Belgium went into lockdown on 18 March 2020. For over two months, and in an unprecedented manner, public life came to a near standstill ...
    Rediscovering the forgotten and unknown Belgium
    It might get overcrowded this summer in many parts of Belgium, but Derek Blyth, author of Hidden Belgium, knows a few places that are off ...
    Public health measures alone can be enough to combat pandemics, study shows
    An epidemic can be contained and even beaten by behavioral measures without access to any vaccine. A new research paper shows how typhus ...
    Post-truth, lies and disinformation: what we need is more truthfulness, not truth
    It is possibly one of the most defining features of our era: the devaluation of truth in politics and the public debate. We live, so we ...
    Meet the Belgians paving the way for a cheese revolution
    Sandwiched between France and the Netherlands – with Switzerland not far either – Belgium has not been well known among its neighbours for ...