Supermarket group Colruyt is to invest €75 million in renovating more than 200 of its stores to operate on low energy. The project will run for 12 years, with the aim of cutting the chain’s carbon dioxide output by 4% in that time. Ten years ago, Colruyt committed that all its new buildings would...

Brussels mobility minister Pascal Smet will remove the general headscarf ban for staff working in the shops of the Brussels metro and pre-metro stations, he announced to party mate and Brussels MP Fouad Ahidar (SP.A). The shop owners will henceforth be able to determine their own staff dress code...

The future mayor of Brussels, Philippe Close, wants to send a clear message to the city and his party (PS) in the wake of former mayor Yvan Mayeur's corruption scandal and subsequent resignation. Close therefore announced that he will renounce his seat in the Brussels parliament as well as his...

About 600 people on Sunday participated in a march to demand the closure of all Brussels slaughterhouses, writes news website 7sur7. The participants marched from Brussels Central Station to the Bourse, with banners and chants calling for the government to put a stop to animal cruelty in the form...

The Brussels-Capital Region and Seoul have signed a friendship and cooperation agreement in the South Korean capital. Belgium's Princess Astrid, who is leading the economic mission, was crowned as honorary citizen of Seoul. State secretary of the Brussels-Capital Region, Cécile Jodogne and mayor of...

Check-in staff at Brussels Airport have called for more security to protect them from disgruntled passengers, following an incident in which a staff member was reduced to tears by a man complaining about the rules on boarding passes. The passenger himself posted a video of the incident on social...

The customs services at Brussels Airport have seen it all: drugs, diamonds, weapons, seahorses… Three Chinese nationals were last week sentenced to 15 months in prison after being caught at the airport with 2,063 endangered seahorses in their baggage. The animals are used in Chinese medicine, and...

Belgium's seventh summer campaign against drunk driving launched last week, writes Het Laatste Nieuws . This edition features an 'alcohol checkerboard' that will allow quick changes to the locations of the sobriety checkpoints in order to move them around faster than the information can spread via...

Every day, about 10,000 connections are made to one of the free hotspots in Brussels. Half a million users are registered for the service, says network operator IRISnet, which will continue to add more hotspots, especially in the metro stations, writes Bruzz. IRISnet, which also supplies dozens of...

A business-to-residential building project in the capital is expected to regenerate its location and help revitalise the neighbourhood. The conversion, known as Oxygen, will see a 1960s concrete office block in the southern Brussels municipality of Auderghem replaced with housing. “Auderghem is one...