For the fourth consecutive year, the Leuven Jazz Festival will be serving a broad menu of all things jazz, from concerts by acclaimed and emerging artists to movies, lectures and exhibitions. There’s even a quiz. Nearly all of the city’s cultural organisations are involved. The biggest names are...

Last year’s race car built by Formula Electric Belgium was among the fastest in the world. This year, a team of 37 engineering students from KU Leuven and Thomas Moore University have come together to build a worthy successor. For now, it is only a digital prototype, but when it’s complete, the car...

The popular Brussels seafood bar La Mer du Nord has announced plans to open a third restaurant next month, this time in the Marolles district, at the foot of the Poelaert-Marolles lift. It will be the first La Mer du Nord location to be operated by a franchisee, writes Brussel Deze Week. La Mer du...

E-commerce in Belgium last year reached a record turnover of €8.2 billion, according to industry group BeCommerce, thanks in part to an exceptional fourth quarter. Online spending in the fourth quarter of 2015 was 8% higher than in the third quarter. An estimated 75% of the Belgian population aged...

Two regions in Germany that border Belgium have announced the intention to file a complaint with the EU and the UN against the decision by the Belgian government to keep its oldest nuclear power plants open until 2025. The regions of North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate are concerned...

By 2035, one-third of the fruits and vegetables consumed in the Brussels-Capital Region should come from the city and its surrounding area, announced environment minister Cline Fremault. The minister is looking to farmers in the Flemish periphery, temporary gardens and possibly even additional...

CD&V’s Yves Leterme, who twice served as prime minister of Belgium, has stepped down from politics, after presiding over a city council meeting on Monday in Ypres. Leterme is now based mainly in Sweden, and his duties make it impossible to continue a political career in Belgium, he said...

Brussels mobility minister Pascal Smet has announced his idea to extend the Brussels metro system to include Groot-Bijgaarden, in the Flemish periphery. The initiative would help to smooth out traffic in the capital, says the minister today in De Standaard . Smet wants to use the recent tunnel...

Mexican drug lord Ezio Benjamin Figueroa-Vasquez alledgedly convinced seven Belgian pharmaceutical manufacturers to sell him large quantities of drugs, write various Belgian media. The heads of the big pharma companies are suspected of knowingly providing medicine to Figueroa-Vasquez, one of the...

Two associations representing businesses located in Brussels’ pedestrian zone, in force since last summer, have lodged a complaint with the Council of State aimed at overturning plans to make the zone permanent. According to a spokesperson for one of the groups, the purpose of the complaint is not...