Tiesj Benoot, one of Belgium’s brightest cycling hopes, grew up on the Tour of Flanders, watching from the sidelines for a full 15 years before he got his first bite at it last year. “It was a dream come true to finally do it, after all those years as a spectator,” he says. “It gave me goosebumps:...

There is something both reassuringly familiar and strangely quirky about Maison Dandoy , the 186-year-old bakery that is coolly reinventing itself. Their boutiques in Brussels, Waterloo and Tokyo are arranged with the slick precision of Apple stores. Yet the warm, exquisite flavours of their...

Following last week's terror attacks in Brussels, the United States has sent FBI teams to assist the Belgian authorities in the investigation into the attacks on 22 March, according to an announcement made today from the White House. Belgian and American officials are discussing the collaboration...

Italian police on Saturday arrested an Algerian man who is accused of providing fake identity documents to terrorists, including Salah Abdeslam and Najim Laachraoui. The documents appear to have been manufactured in an apartment in the Brussels commune of Saint-Gilles, where forging equipment and...

The hotels in Brussels have never had so few customers, according to the Brussels Hotel Association. Only about 20% of the hotel rooms in the capital are currently occupied, an all-time low. Last week's terror attacks and consequent closing of the national airport have brought tourism to a near...

With one day left before the introduction of road tolls for goods vehicles weighing more than 3.5 tonnes, six out of 10 lorry operators have experienced problems with the equipment required, according to a survey carried out by the transport industry federation Febetra. The main problem concerns...

About one in four Belgians never backs up their computer files, and nearly half have lost all of their private data at least once, according to a survey of more than 900 individuals and 300 businesses by Merak. The data manager conducted the survey in collaboration with the research agency iVox, on...

Nurses are allowed to administer vaccinations without the supervision of a doctor from 9 April, health minister Maggie De Block has announced. The royal decree was published yesterday. De Block said that she hopes that the change in the legislation “will have a positive influence on the number of...

A demonstration by the French far-right group Génération Identitaire is banned on Saturday throughout the Brussels-Capital Region, says Brussels minister-president Rudi Vervoort, according to Brusselnieuws. Vervoort announced the decision to ban the extremist group from demonstrating in Brussels...

Twitter has become an important platform for the launching and spreading of news, but it’s still the traditional sources, like journalists and politicians, who are responsible for most of the news-oriented tweets. That is one of the main conclusions of a study by researchers at Antwerp University,...