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Anti-abortion rally comes to Brussels this month

The seventh edition of the anti-abortion rally March for Life is scheduled to take place in Brussels on Sunday, 17 April. The organisation, which presents itself as young and Catholic, holds the world's largest pro-life rally in various cities around the world in an effort to stand up for the...

Belgian names on Panama list could face prison sentences

Belgians whose names appear in the “Panama Papers” – some 700 names, according to reports – could face a prison sentence. That would not be because placing funds in offshore investments is illegal, but because they may have lied to investigators about owning such funds on a previous occasion. The...

Dutch relatives of bomb victim file suit against Brussels Airport

The family of one of the Dutch victims of the terrorist bombing at Brussels Airport on 22 March has started a legal action against the airport company for negligence. The lawsuit alleges that the airport did not do enough to protect passengers and is based in part on the claims of airport police...

Is it time for a reform of Brussels policing?

The 22 March bombings have left this country in shock. The inability to fathom that such an atrocity could happen to us is comparable only to the Dutroux era. By the time serial killer Marc Dutroux was caught in 1996, girls had been disappearing for months. Not much attention was given to it, until...

Belgian artist Benoît planning commemorative work for Maelbeek

Benoît Van Innis, the Belgian artist who made the drawings in Maelbeek metro station, is planning to produce an artwork to commemorate the victims of the 22 March terror attacks, he told Brusselnieuws. He is not yet sure exactly how the new artwork will look, but has promised a "poetic, subtle...

Nearly 600 companies apply for unemployment following attacks

Nearly 600 companies in Belgium have proclaimed a period of temporary unemployment for their staff following the 22 March bomb attacks in Brussels and Zaventem, according to unemployment agency ONEM. The companies have filed a total of 1,799 requests in the last two weeks, compared to about 100 in...

First self-driving trucks on Belgian roads

Self-driving trucks appeared on Belgian roads for the first time yesterday. The trucks drove from Westerlo and from Brussels to Rotterdam, as part of the Dutch pilot project European Truck Platooning Challenge. For the project, two self-driving trucks followed another truck in which a driver was...

Belgian pro footballers to visit Molenbeek youth

A delegation of professional football players on Thursday will visit the Maritime community centre in the Brussels commune of Molenbeek to meet with young aspiring players in an initiative of Football is my Dream. The organisation aims to bring the youth in contact with professional clubs, writes...

Angry truckers block Belgian motorways to protest kilometre tax

The launch of the new kilometre tax across Belgium on 1 April has met with protests by truck drivers who resorted to blocking motorway exits and interchanges. This morning a group of truckers took over three lanes of the busy E40 motorway from Brussels in the direction of Ghent, creating major...

New evening market opens this month on Place du Luxembourg

Brussels adds another evening market to its growing list, with the addition of a Tuesday market on Place du Luxembourg from 19 April. The new market, which will offer mostly organic products, was initially scheduled to take place on the esplanade of the European Parliament, but that plan fell...

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