Sections
Follow us:
Sunday, 19 September, 2021
Latest News:
Police launch major recruitment drive in Brussels...
Di Rupo urges the unvaccinated to ‘examine their...
36 Belgian cities and municipalities organise Car Free...
New Covid-19 police order in force in Liège...
Belgium’s famed Hallerbos becomes a nature reserve...
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
    • Flanders no longer requires face masks at work, Brussels still does
    While face masks will no longer be required on the work floor in Flanders from 1 October, people working in the Brussels-Capital Region ...
    Flanders no longer requires face masks at work, Brussels still does
    While face masks will no longer be required on the work floor in Flanders from 1 October, people working in the Brussels-Capital Region will have to ...
    Police launch major recruitment drive in Brussels
    Belgium’s Integrated Police - made up of the federal and local police forces - launched a new recruitment drive on Saturday at the Major Géruzet ...
    Di Rupo urges the unvaccinated to ‘examine their conscience’
    On Saturday, Walloon Minister-President Elio Di Rupo urged residents of the region who have not been vaccinated against the coronavirus to "examine ...
    36 Belgian cities and municipalities organise Car Free Sunday today
    Today, on Car Free Sunday, cars are not allowed, and pedestrians and cyclists are king in 36 cities and municipalities in Belgium, including the ...
    New Covid-19 police order in force in Liège
    A new police order concerning the Covid-19 crisis was issued in the province of Liège by the provincial governor Hervé Jamar on Saturday. The ...
    • Belgium takes ‘another big step’ towards freedom from 1 October
    Belgium will lift the general face mask obligation and expand the use of the Covid Safe Ticket (CST), announced Prime Minister Alexander De Croo during a press ...
    Belgium takes ‘another big step’ towards freedom from 1 October
    Belgium will lift the general face mask obligation and expand the use of the Covid Safe Ticket (CST), announced Prime Minister Alexander De Croo ...
    Belgium’s famed Hallerbos becomes a nature reserve
    The famed Hallerbos bluebell wood in the Flemish Brabant province is being granted the status of nature reserve, announced Flemish Environment ...
    Booster vaccination on its way in the US while the EU hesitates
    An expert panel to the US Food and Drug Administration recommended on Friday that Pfizer booster shots in the US should for the time being only be ...
    Car Free Sunday: What you need to know
    The streets of Brussels - and many Belgian cities - will again be free of cars for one day on 19 September, with the annual Car Free Sunday event set ...
    Wallonia considers Covid Safe Ticket in ‘very targeted’ sectors
    There might be a need to extend the Covid Safe Ticket (CST) to certain “extremely specific” sectors, Wallonia’s Vice Minister-President Willy Borsus ...
    Opinion
    More
    Von der Leyen goes soul-searching as she seeks a global role for the EU
    European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen went soul-searching in her second State of the Union ...
    Tatu Liimatainen
    Time for EU to restore rivers to build resilience against floods
    A few weeks ago, I did not make it to bed. Over two metres of water were cascading down the streets of my ...
    Andreas Baumüller
    The importance of a stable financial sector in a post-pandemic world
    Uncertainty is one of the few things in life that are very certain. The COVID-pandemic is an example thereof ...
    Bert Van Roosebeke
    Coronalert turns one year old: what went wrong?
    At the end of September 2020 Coronalert, the Belgian COVID-19 contact-tracing app was launched. One year ...
    Giulia Zampedri
    What have travel bans taught us about the world?
    There is a great irony as the world watches Afghans scrambling atop barbed wires or clinging over plane ...
    Rayyan Dabbous
    Why do we grow trees in Siberia to burn them in Belgium?
    Zuhal Demir, the Flemish Minister of Energy and the Environment, recently said something that was received ...
    Ramiro Austin
    A tale of two cities: Georgia’s way to the EU or far from it
    On coming October 2nd, local elections shall take place in Georgia. And those elections are essential for ...
    Vlad Olteanu
    Democracy’s weakness in the face of Covid-19
    The current situation in advanced democracies in the world is absurd. While less than 2% of the population in ...
    David Abuchar Luna
    The EU’s kid-glove Cuban treatment exposes its Latin American dictator double standards
    What will it take for some European countries and EU foreign service mavens to finally take off the ...
    Joe Kirwin
    Hope died in Afghanistan
    Zainab, a 27-year-old Hazara woman from Bamiyan, Afghanistan gave birth to her first baby in a Kabul ...
    Gregory H. Stanton
    Top Opinions
    Von der Leyen goes soul-searching as she seeks a global role for the EU
    European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen went soul-searching in her second State of the Union ...
    Tatu Liimatainen
    Time for EU to restore rivers to build resilience against floods
    A few weeks ago, I did not make it to bed. Over two metres of water were cascading down the streets of my ...
    Andreas Baumüller
    Coronalert turns one year old: what went wrong?
    At the end of September 2020 Coronalert, the Belgian COVID-19 contact-tracing app was launched. One year ...
    Giulia Zampedri
    What have travel bans taught us about the world?
    There is a great irony as the world watches Afghans scrambling atop barbed wires or clinging over plane ...
    Rayyan Dabbous
    Why do we grow trees in Siberia to burn them in Belgium?
    Zuhal Demir, the Flemish Minister of Energy and the Environment, recently said something that was received ...
    Ramiro Austin
    Democracy’s weakness in the face of Covid-19
    The current situation in advanced democracies in the world is absurd. While less than 2% of the population in ...
    David Abuchar Luna
    The EU’s kid-glove Cuban treatment exposes its Latin American dictator double standards
    What will it take for some European countries and EU foreign service mavens to finally take off the ...
    Joe Kirwin
    Hope died in Afghanistan
    Zainab, a 27-year-old Hazara woman from Bamiyan, Afghanistan gave birth to her first baby in a Kabul ...
    Gregory H. Stanton
    Taliban takeover: Death to gender equality
    "They are just chanting 'Death to America', but they seem friendly at the same time, it is utterly bizarre," ...
    Amitis Sedghi
    Fighting poverty not the poor
    We had our first son when we recently moved to Belgium. By the time our second son was on his way, we had ...
    Collins Nweke
    Become an opinion maker
    Top jobs in Brussels and beyond
    PHP Developer
    Page

    See all jobs
    Post a job
    Top Opinions
    Von der Leyen goes soul-searching as she seeks a global role for the EU
    European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen went soul-searching in her second State of the Union ...
    Tatu Liimatainen
    Time for EU to restore rivers to build resilience against floods
    A few weeks ago, I did not make it to bed. Over two metres of water were cascading down the streets of my ...
    Andreas Baumüller
    Coronalert turns one year old: what went wrong?
    At the end of September 2020 Coronalert, the Belgian COVID-19 contact-tracing app was launched. One year ...
    Giulia Zampedri
    What have travel bans taught us about the world?
    There is a great irony as the world watches Afghans scrambling atop barbed wires or clinging over plane ...
    Rayyan Dabbous
    Why do we grow trees in Siberia to burn them in Belgium?
    Zuhal Demir, the Flemish Minister of Energy and the Environment, recently said something that was received ...
    Ramiro Austin
    Democracy’s weakness in the face of Covid-19
    The current situation in advanced democracies in the world is absurd. While less than 2% of the population in ...
    David Abuchar Luna
    The EU’s kid-glove Cuban treatment exposes its Latin American dictator double standards
    What will it take for some European countries and EU foreign service mavens to finally take off the ...
    Joe Kirwin
    Hope died in Afghanistan
    Zainab, a 27-year-old Hazara woman from Bamiyan, Afghanistan gave birth to her first baby in a Kabul ...
    Gregory H. Stanton
    Taliban takeover: Death to gender equality
    "They are just chanting 'Death to America', but they seem friendly at the same time, it is utterly bizarre," ...
    Amitis Sedghi
    Fighting poverty not the poor
    We had our first son when we recently moved to Belgium. By the time our second son was on his way, we had ...
    Collins Nweke
    Become an opinion maker
  • info@brusselstimes.com
    GET IN TOUCH
    • More
    Magazine
    More
    Bait bikes won’t work if theft isn’t prosecuted, says cyclist group
    Brussels has a lot of cycling initiatives on the mobility agenda, including tripling the use of bicycles by the city's residents by 2030, ...
    ‘Nobody lives there’: Airbnb investors taking up scarce Brussels real estate
    While Airbnb claims that it enables people to rent their room or house sporadically to tourists, affording travellers a more authentic ...
    Brussels’ best architecture award: The nominees
    The nominees for the first Brussels architectural awards have been decided, with landmarks from Place Rogier to the summer bars of the ...
    Excavation of destroyed synagogue in Lithuania exposes new findings
    In Vilnius, capital of Lithuania, an excavation of its former Great Synagogue has fully exposed the Torah ark and the podium that was ...
    Horses to Heizel: Brussels’ trams through the ages
    Trams in Brussels have come a long way from the first horse-drawn services that started carrying passengers from the Porte de Namur to the ...
    The mysterious murder of Belgium’s Communist leader Julien Lahaut: Solved without any perpetrators ever brought to justice
    The murder of Communist leader Julien Lahaut in 1950 shocked Belgium. No-one was convicted for the murder, and it is still an open wound. A ...
    In Photos: Belgium bikes through the ages
    Cycling has long been a sport with a strong link to Belgium, and with good reason. From city hoppers to spandex-clad weekend trips, ...
    Economist: Belgium needs to restore long-term fiscal sustainability after COVID-19
    As all other countries, Belgium’s economy was severely hit by the COVID-19 outbreak in 2020. Since then, the vaccination roll-out has taken ...
    AA Gent is not and never will be for sale, says main sponsor
    First all-amateur team of space travellers succesfully returns to Earth
    Give third shot to people in residential care centres, says Vandenbroucke
    Need computer assistance? Try the post office
    Finance Minister wants €350 million budget effort from Brussels
    For sale: 25,000 CDs from the Muntpunt collection
    New report says Chovanec died of self-inflicted injuries
    EU and US pledge to reduce methane emissions in energy and agriculture
    The Opinion Makers
    More
    Von der Leyen goes soul-searching as she seeks a global role for the EU
    Tatu Liimatainen
    Time for EU to restore rivers to build resilience against floods
    Andreas Baumüller
    The importance of a stable financial sector in a post-pandemic world
    Bert Van Roosebeke
    Coronalert turns one year old: what went wrong?
    Giulia Zampedri
    What have travel bans taught us about the world?
    Rayyan Dabbous
    Why do we grow trees in Siberia to burn them in Belgium?
    Ramiro Austin
    A tale of two cities: Georgia’s way to the EU or far from it
    Vlad Olteanu
    Democracy’s weakness in the face of Covid-19
    David Abuchar Luna
    The EU’s kid-glove Cuban treatment exposes its Latin American dictator double standards
    Joe Kirwin
    Hope died in Afghanistan
    Gregory H. Stanton
    Taliban takeover: Death to gender equality
    Amitis Sedghi
    Fighting poverty not the poor
    Collins Nweke
    Become an opinion maker
    • Belgium
    Police launch major recruitment drive in Brussels
    Di Rupo urges the unvaccinated to ‘examine their conscience’
    New Covid-19 police order in force in Liège
    Health
    Di Rupo urges the unvaccinated to ‘examine their conscience’
    New Covid-19 police order in force in Liège
    Wallonia considers Covid Safe Ticket in ‘very targeted’ sectors
    Brussels
    36 Belgian cities and municipalities organise Car Free Sunday today
    Flanders no longer requires face masks at work, Brussels still does
    Finance Minister wants €350 million budget effort from Brussels
    EU Affairs
    EU and US pledge to reduce methane emissions in energy and agriculture
    EU auditors: “Return systems encourage illegal migration”
    EU parliament rejects plan to ban some antibiotics for animal use
    Business
    AA Gent is not and never will be for sale, says main sponsor
    Need computer assistance? Try the post office
    New mortgage rules will make things harder for first-time buyers
    World
    Booster vaccination on its way in the US while the EU hesitates
    Nearly 500 Belgians still stuck in Afghanistan
    World on ‘catastrophic’ path to +2.7°C warming, UN warns
    Politics
    Wallonia considers Covid Safe Ticket in ‘very targeted’ sectors
    Finance Minister wants €350 million budget effort from Brussels
    Flemish minister freezes payments to Pukkelpop
    Art & Culture
    Belgium’s famed Hallerbos becomes a nature reserve
    For sale: 25,000 CDs from the Muntpunt collection
    Medieval burial vault discovered in Bruges
    Sports
    Road cycling World Championships come to Flanders
    UEFA allows visiting fans to spectate at matches
    Paralympics Recap: 15 medals for Belgium
    Education
    Temporary European school opens on Brussels’ former NATO site
    Two Belgian universities included in global academic ranking
    International school in public park in Brussels threatened by eviction during COVID-19
    Current Top Opinions
    Von der Leyen goes soul-searching as she seeks a global role for the EU
    European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen went soul-searching in her second State of the Union ...
    Tatu Liimatainen
    Time for EU to restore rivers to build resilience against floods
    A few weeks ago, I did not make it to bed. Over two metres of water were cascading down the streets of my ...
    Andreas Baumüller
    Coronalert turns one year old: what went wrong?
    At the end of September 2020 Coronalert, the Belgian COVID-19 contact-tracing app was launched. One year ...
    Giulia Zampedri
    What have travel bans taught us about the world?
    There is a great irony as the world watches Afghans scrambling atop barbed wires or clinging over plane ...
    Rayyan Dabbous
    Why do we grow trees in Siberia to burn them in Belgium?
    Zuhal Demir, the Flemish Minister of Energy and the Environment, recently said something that was received ...
    Ramiro Austin
    Democracy’s weakness in the face of Covid-19
    The current situation in advanced democracies in the world is absurd. While less than 2% of the population in ...
    David Abuchar Luna
    The EU’s kid-glove Cuban treatment exposes its Latin American dictator double standards
    What will it take for some European countries and EU foreign service mavens to finally take off the ...
    Joe Kirwin
    Hope died in Afghanistan
    Zainab, a 27-year-old Hazara woman from Bamiyan, Afghanistan gave birth to her first baby in a Kabul ...
    Gregory H. Stanton
    Taliban takeover: Death to gender equality
    "They are just chanting 'Death to America', but they seem friendly at the same time, it is utterly bizarre," ...
    Amitis Sedghi
    Fighting poverty not the poor
    We had our first son when we recently moved to Belgium. By the time our second son was on his way, we had ...
    Collins Nweke
    Become an opinion maker