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,...

“It could happen anywhere,” was probably not a thought going through the mind of Ketevan Kardava on Tuesday morning, as she was waiting at the Brussels Airlines desk in Zaventem to check in for a flight to Geneva to cover a meeting. Kardava is the Brussels-based correspondent for Georgia’s public...

A police chief of the Brussels-Capital Region last week showed up drunk to a meeting called immediately after the terror attacks on Tuesday morning. The Brussels-Ixelles police had requested that all of the Region's police commissioners come together for a crisis meeting with the mayor. One of the...

The terrorists who committed the attacks at Brussels Airport and the Maelbeek metro station last week were also possibly planning to attack the office and home of Belgium's prime minister Charles Michel, write De Tijd and L'Echo . Prior to the attacks, the terrorists searched for information about...

Police in Belgium reported a nearly 9% increase in the number of cases of domicile fraud over the last three years, according to figures provided by interior minister Jan Jambon at the request of CD&V politician Franky Demon, write De Morgen and Het Laatste Nieuws . In 2011, police controls...

Belgium has too many accident and emergency (A&E) departments, according to the Federal Expertise Centre for Health Care (KCE). Some of them should be closed, the centre suggested, and the budget and expertise spread over a smaller number of departments. KCE carried out an enquiry into the...

Scientists at the Free University of Brussels (VUB) have launched a survey to measure the impact of the terrorist attacks last week on the health of the population. The survey will focus on residents’ physical and mental condition following the attacks, particularly feelings of anxiety. It will...

Dutch police authorities informed their Belgian counterparts of the criminal and extremist background of the Bakraoui brothers on 17 March, five days before the suicide bombings at Brussels Airport and Maalbeek metro station, Dutch justice minister Ard van der Steur has claimed. A tip from the FBI...

A horticultural project supported by the European Regional Development Fund launched this week in the Brussels commune of Anderlecht. The aim of the initiative is to turn a plot of land next to the municipal sports fields into a substantial urban garden, writes Brusselnieuws. The grounds in Rue...