Brussels has its first "street workout park" with the installation of new equipment in the Maximilian Park. The park provides a permanent workout space for the Brussels street workout club Wolf's Bar, writes Bruzz. Street workouts are exercises done using basic equipment that utilises your own body...

Belgium last week was the notable absentee at a European expert meeting on public transport. After the March terror attacks in Brussels, the organisation added a special section on metro safety, but the Belgian ministers were not present at the meeting, writes Politico. The land transport security...

About a quarter of the business leaders in Belgium are doing everything they can to avoid using Brussels Airport since the terror attacks of 22 March. The figures are bad news for the airport, which relies on businesses for at least 40% of their passenger numbers, writes De Morgen . The results...

About 3.1 million Belgians have given health-care providers permission to exchange their data via an electronic patient file, four times as many as the same time last year. The figures come from the Christian Mutuality (CM), which made the announcement to coincide with European Patient Rights’ Day...

The Brussels region has set an ambitious goal to locally produce 30% of the fruit and vegetables that its residents consume by 2035. The figure currently stands at 1%. There might be a long way to go - but the good news is that Brussels has great potential for urban gardening and no space is too...

Theodore Linscott Glasgow was born on 25 May 1898 in Montreal, Canada, the eldest son of Robert and Louise Glasgow. A bright boy, he studied at the University of Toronto and the Royal Military College in Kingston. In August 1916, at the age of 18, Glasgow was recruited by the British Royal Naval...

The non-profit media group Vlaams-Brusselse Media (Flemish-Brussels Media), specialised in providing Dutch-language news and culture content in Brussels, on Wednesday launches its new brand name, Bruzz. FM Brussel, TV Brussel, Brussel Deze Week, Agenda and Brusselnieuws all fuse together under the...

Brussels mayor Yvan Mayeur on Friday was shown the door when he tried to enter the restaurant Cécila, near the Grand Place. Chef Mélanie Englebin is furious because she believes the introduction of the pedestrian zone last summer is directly responsible for the restaurant's dramatic drop in...

Nearly 600 Brussels restaurants and catering businesses went bankrupt this month, including seven snack bars in the pedestrian zone, according to Horeca Brussels, the industry organisation that represents the capital's hotels, restaurants and catering businesses. The organisation partially blames...