The Brussels Cineact foundation stated its case to the court of appeals this week with regard to the ABC Cinema, which it is trying to stop from being turned into a commercial space. Cineact, a foundation made up of the people behind Cinema Nova, Marcel/Offscreen and La Retine de Plateau, had...

Irish low-cost airline Ryanair has been ordered to pay damages of between €250 and €400 to six Belgian passengers for delays of flights from holiday destinations to Charleroi Airport. The Ghent-based company Happy Flights, which represents passengers in cases of cancellations or delays, filed the...

Soon in Belgium there will be two clear categories of ambulances: yellow ambulances for emergency and urgent patient transport, and white ambulances for non-urgent patient transport. The second category will not use flashing lights and sirens. The new federal measure follows some confusion among...

National rail authority SNCB plans to increase the frequency of its S-trains, which run into and around the capital, the company said. Nationwide, new lines and frequency of current lines will increase by 5%. The 12 S-trains were introduced in 2015. At present, some lines are restricted at certain...

London mayor Sadiq Khan visited Brussels yesterday for talks with EU and Belgian officials. He met with, among others, Flemish MEP Guy Verhofstadt as well as Brussels-City mayor Yvan Mayeur. At city hall, Khan and Mayeur discussed London’s recent terrorist attack on Westminster Bridge and nearby...

As the procedure for the departure of the UK from the European Union officially starts this afternoon, it appears that more than 100 British nationals living in Brussels have received the Belgian nationality since the referendum in June last year. The highest number of British people in Brussels...

The Brussels-Capital Region has applied for Unesco World Heritage status for its traditional Ommegang pageant, a reconstruction of the son of Emperor Charles V's entry in Brussels in 1549, writes Bruzz. The medieval festival draws crowds every summer to its procession from the Royal Park to the...

The plan to have Belgium's new national Eurostadium completed in time to host the opening match of the 2020 European championship appears to have fallen through after Flemish minister for public works and transportation Ben Weyts refused to sell the grounds that are crucial for the construction of...

"For a long time you will see almost no changes" Jonathan Watson, chief market analyst, Foreign Currency Direct With Article 50 to be triggered on Wednesday, we still have two years of negotiations to look forward to, where many questions which have been on the tip of most expats' tongues will be...

The City of Brussels is cracking down on litter and public urination by imposing stricter fines for the violations. These include putting the trash out too early, failing to pick up after a pet and dropping litter on the ground, writes Bruzz. The Brussels city council on Monday approved the fine...