The landmark site of the Atomium is once again the stage for the Belgian capital’s New Year’s eve fireworks display. A festive programme with music and pyrotechnics will ring in 2026 at the Heysel plateau on 31 December, organised by the City of Brussels. The entertainment kicks off at 21.00 with a...

Brussels arts centre Bozar is celebrating a record year for visitors after welcoming 750,000 people to its hallowed halls in 2025, reports Belga. The attendance figure for its extensive programme of exhibitions, concerts, performances and other events represents an increase of 20% compared to 2024...

Successive strikes at Brussels Airport led to the cancellation of 2,395 flights last year, according to figures requested by MP Kjell Vander Elst (Open VLd), reports Belga. In total, some 330,000 travellers were affected by seven days of strikes that disrupted air traffic at the airport in Zaventem...

One of Stib’s three unions is planning to blockade depots on 26 December, which could cause disruptions on the Brussels public transport network, the company has warned. The civil service trade union CGSP has announced that its members will hold a strike this Friday, in an ongoing dispute with...

The Belgian capital’s public transport network will be free of charge on New Year’s eve and strengthened, Stib has announced. Several bus lines are scheduled to run throughout the night, while the metro will be open until 2.30 in the morning. Some 650 Stib staff members will be on duty on the...

Thursday's protest by farmers in Brussels resulted in six administrative arrests, seven judicial arrests, four injured police officers and more than 50 tonnes of rubbish left for the city’s waste collection agency to clean up. A spokesperson for Bruxelles Propreté said that it had taken "...

Belgian prime minister Bart De Wever has expressed relief after persuading the EU not to seize frozen Russian assets held at Euroclear in Brussels, with the bloc instead agreeing to borrow €90 billion on the financial markets to support Ukraine. “Ukraine will receive an interest-free loan of €90...

Street nurse organisation Infirmières de rue is making a last-minute appeal for donations to help the homeless in its end-of-year campaign “We must rehouse them!” Launched at the beginning of December, the action targets the rising problem of people living in the streets or unstable accommodation...

Trade unions have no intention of scaling back their efforts to protest against new measures from the federal government which they say dangerously weaken Belgium’s social safety net. FGTB union president Thierry Bodson announced the next wave of protests to take place in the first three months of...