Refugees in Brussels are being given the opportunity to train as web developers, in a new initiative funded in part by dinner parties organised by hobby cooks. Kiron , a European NGO which helps refugees get access to higher education and integrate in society, has teamed up with Meetsies , a...

Belgium's prime minister Charles Michel has committed to signing an agreement with Morocco on the exchange of digital fingerprints. Michel travelled to Morocco with federal secretary of state for asylum and migration Theo Francken and federal home affairs minister Jan Jambon on Monday to meet with...

Scientists at Ghent University (UGent) have developed an enzyme with which they can produce a new sweetener that is low on calories, stimulates the growth and activity of bacteria in the colon and doesn’t damage teeth. The healthier sweetener, called kojibiose, was discovered by accident. “When we...

A woman gave birth to a baby boy at the weekend in a snack bar on Avenue Joseph Baeck in the Brussels commune of Molenbeek. She promptly named the boy Adam, after the fast food joint where he was born. The owner of the snack bar says that the boy is welcome to come and eat there for the rest of his...

Eight months after the introduction of the Brussels pedestrian zone and new traffic plan, the initiative has received a mostly positive evaluation, reports De Standaard . The controversial, eight-month-old pedestrian zone in the city centre is successful overall, according to an evaluation...

Paris-Saint-Germain, Juventus and Manchester City - big football is coming to Brussels. We are not talking about the Champions League but the Crossing Cup, one of Europe's largest youth football extravaganzas. The tournament was started in 2001 as an initiative of a group of football enthusiasts...

Just as the indigenous people of the Arctic don’t like to be called Eskimos, the Romani people, who live scattered across Europe, don’t like being referred to as gypsies. Still, a European project that kicked off this month carries the word in its tagline. The PAL project, worth €1.27 million, has...

Gwendolyn Rutten, leader of the Flemish liberal party Open VLD, wants primary schools in Flanders to introduce the English language into their curriculum. "High school graduates have insufficient foreign language skills," she told VTM News, according to Knack. Rutten wants to promote...

A new housing development with 1,300 homes has been approved in the Brussels commune of Anderlecht. The project officially launches next week, when construction is scheduled to start on farmland located along Avenue Henri Simonet, at the end of the metro line at Erasmus, writes Brusselnieuws. With...

The American Hugh Wolff has been named as the new head conductor of the Belgian National Orchestra with effect from next year. Wolff takes over from Andrey Boreyko, who has served five years. Wolff comes to Brussels from Frankfurt, where he has been head conductor of the symphony orchestra since...