Seven Walloon start-ups presented their innovative creations earlier this year at the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, the world’s most prestigious trade show for developers of electronics and digital devices. Getting a place at the show – which brings together 165,000 visitors...

Philippe Close (PS) has become the new mayor of the City of Brussels, write various Belgian media. He will take over the position of party mate Yvan Mayeur, who resigned following a corruption scandal. Close currently works as the Bruussels councillor for finance, human resources and tourism and as...

It sometimes seems as if every city these days wants to be a smart city. Most of the time, city officials are thinking about digital solutions to urban problems, like free wifi for everyone or maybe an app that tells people when to put out their rubbish. But Brussels thinks it can be smart by...

In the Brussels-Capital Region, 1,500 people, on average, die every year due to the effects of tobacco use, which makes smoking the main cause of death in the capital. The Brussels ministers responsible for health, Guy Vanhengel and Didier Gosuin have therefore set aside €350,000 to help in the...

Belgium is one of the world’s top 10 countries to be a child, according to the End of Childhood Index published by Save the Children International. Save the Children collected data from 172 countries and presented the results in a report called Stolen Childhoods. “Childhood should be a time to...

Brussels mayor Yvan Mayeur announced his resignation on Thursday just before 17.00, reports Bruzz. A meeting was planned later in the evening for the (former) mayor and Socialist Party member to further explain his resignation. The decision does not come as a surprise, according to Bruzz, as it was...

Hundreds of people gathered at Brussels' Mont des Arts on Thursday afternoon, to take part in a conference and accompanying 'demonstration to end violence against women and girls'. The organisers of Loud and United expected about 500 demonstrators to participate, writes Bruzz. "In Europe, 50 women...

A French musician has become the first ever winner of Brussels’ international Queen Elisabeth Competition for cello. Victor Julien-Laferrière, born in 1990, began playing with the French Philharmonique in 2013 after winning the 2012 Spring Prague International Competition. He will go on to play...

Flanders and the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) have agreed to restore 24 military burial sites in West Flanders. Minister-president Geert Bourgeois has signed a multi-year agreement with the CWGC to restore some of the most famous First World War memorials in the Westhoek area,...

The board of Samusocial, the non-profit that looks after the homeless in Brussels, has collectively resigned over attendance fees paid to board members including Yvan Mayeur, the mayor of Brussels-City. In the meantime, the system of payments has been scrapped. Payments for board members to attend...