Antwerp’s city hall building celebrates its 450th anniversary next year with a series of events, including a wedding involving 450 couples. The mass wedding will be carried out on Grote Markt in front of the building. Weddings have always been an important core activity of the city hall (pictured...

Jef Van Damme and Willem Stevens, two Brussels SP.A politicians on their way by boat to the climate summit in Paris, are stranded just over the Belgian border, about 200 km from the French capital. The two socialist party members were hitching a ride on The Amista barge on their way to the 2015...

The government of Flanders and parliament have issued an official apology to the victims of forced adoptions that took place in the region between the 1950s and 1980s. The apology was supported by the Belgian bishops. Forced adoptions usually took place in the case of teenage girls who were...

Time marches on, and proof is that the government of Flanders has awarded its annual Culture Prize for Music to a DJ and producer, the first time the region’s official prize for music has gone to someone from the dance scene. Netsky, 26, was born Boris Daenen in Edegem, Antwerp province. He studied...

With roughly 250 films screened in about 40 compilations, the annual Short Film Festival in Leuven remains a hotspot for local movie talent. The 21st edition offers up a handful of competitions, both Flemish and European, showcasing new shorts from debuting, rising and established filmmakers. A...

The City of Brussels on Thursday will announce whether or not the annual event Winter Wonders will start on Friday as planned. Stallholders, meanwhile, are busy putting the finishing touches on their displays across the city centre. The fate of the 15th edition of Brussels' biggest Christmas and...

The Brussels metro partially reopens on Wednesday under the watchful eye of 200 Belgian soldiers. The military has been called in to secure the underground rail network together with the railway police and private security personnel. The metro will reopen gradually, as the Brussels region maintains...

A study published on Tuesday by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) shows that 18% of the 25- to 34-year-olds in Belgium has no upper secondary, or high school diploma. According to the study Education at a Glance 2015 , Belgium scores below average compared to the 34...

The impact of the increased threat level in Brussels and the consequent closure of many cafés and restaurants across the city is a 'heavy blow' for the business owners, but there is a level of understanding for the measures, said Marc Van Muylders of Horeca Brussels on Radio 1 on behalf of the...

Most Volkswagen cars found to have been fitted with fraudulent software developed to pass all emissions tests will require only a software update to solve the problem, according to the German company’s sales director for south and west Europe, Sven Kunath. The quick fix can be carried out on about...