You don’t have to be terribly old to remember the mission money box. Back in the day, you could leave some coins in the piggy bank at your school or in the local church to help the “poor children in Africa”. Some jars were decorated with a statuette of a missionary dressed in habit with a few...

Entrepreneurship in Belgium is lagging behind other European countries, according to various studies over the years ranging from Vlerick Business School to the European Commission. But the number of people starting their own business here reached a record high last year, up 1.8% to more than 82,000...

The Belgian government has enlisted the help of the army to provide "additional humanitarian assistance" to prisons in Brussels and Wallonia, where prison personnel has been on strike for 12 days, Belgian media report. The decision to use soldiers to replace the striking prison officers came from...

Brussels minister for road safety Bianca Debaets wants to include two additional first aid lessons in the theoretical driving test. It is therefore likely that knowledge of the material will be required of anyone who wants to obtain a driving license in Belgium in the future, write La Dernière...

After nearly half a century of business, the famous Brussels café Goupil Le Fol near the Grand Place is accepting takeover offers. Owner Abel hopes to find a new operator who will preserve the character of his quirky pub. "I'm almost ready to retire,” Abel told RTBF. “It has nothing to do with the...

The Zinneke Parade in Brussels has won this year’s Flemish Culture Prize for amateur arts. The jury particularly praised the event’s multidisciplinary nature. The biennial Zinneke first took place in 2000, and this month hosts its ninth edition. The parade through the streets of Brussels is made up...

The Free University of Brussels (VUB) has launched a research group focusing on the impact of robots on our lives. The Brussels Human Robotic Research Center (BruBotics) is an initiative of eight research groups and more than 70 VUB researchers. They have joined forces to carry out...

More than a thousand people attended the first edition of the Brussels Smart City Event, which was organised at Tour & Taxis site on Tuesday. The summit was held by Bianca Debaets, secretary of state for digitalization in the Brussels-Capital Region. Thirty start-ups showed how they can...

In a prison in the Belgian town of Merksplas, in Antwerp province, on Saturday about 200 inmates occupied the courtyard, igniting fires and throwing stones, report various Belgian media. According to Merksplas mayor Frank Wilrycx, the prisoners caused a great deal of damage. “In some blocks, the...

The Belgian Red Devils will have to do without Vincent Kompany at the 2016 UEFA European Championship, or Euro 2016. The Manchester City player on Saturday announced that he was sidelined by a groin injury, which he sustained earlier last week during a Champions League match against Real Madrid. “I...