To end the Bright Brussels Winter lighting of the inner ring, the Bright Brussels Festival will light up the canal district from the Square Sainctelette and the Place des Armateurs. The Quai des Péniches will be cloaked in light with 10 majestic works dotted along an illuminated pathway. To...

Antwerp introduces its new low-emissions zone (Lez) in the centre of the city and in the Linkeroever district on 1 February. The introduction of the zone will affect older cars in an effort to reduce the levels of fine particles in the air. Antwerp is known as one of the most polluted cities in...

The government of the Brussels-Capital Region has given €180,000 to Jeugd en Muziek Brussel (Youth and Music Brussels) to bolster its educational programmes in Dutch-speaking schools. The funding will allow pupils in both primary and secondary school to learn to play and write music in workshops,...

A new museum displaying about 100 costumes from the vast and varied wardrobe of Manneken Pis opens to the public in Brussels this weekend. Until now, the costumes have been on show in very tight quarters in the Museum of the City of Brussels on the Grand' Place. On Saturday the Manneken Pis...

The Belgian healthcare system has been ranked fourth among 35 countries in Europe using 48 indicators, according to an annual report released by the Sweden-based Health Consumer Powerhouse (HCP). The high ranking is the best achieved by Belgium since the launch of the index in 2005. Healthcare has...

A project that aims to support movie producers in the Brussels region has backed 26 projects in its first year, to the tune of €3 million. The screen.brussels project launched with the objective to support and help grow the region's film sector - which is made up of about 400 companies. Of the two...

The British ambassador to Belgium, Alison Rose, has addressed the Foreign Policy and European affairs committee over Brexit – the departure of the UK from the European Union – and the future relationship between the country and the union. Since the UK is a key trading partner for Flanders, the...

The national rail authority SNCB is changing many of its terms and conditions in an effort to eliminate the most customer-unfriendly conditions from its service, it has announced. At present, the full set of terms and conditions runs to 250 pages, which the company said it was reducing to 15. “The...

The Age of Entitlement, or Affordable Tooth Extraction: the long and intriguing title of this exhibition by Antwerp-born sculptor and installation artist Sven ’t Jolle refers to his new homeland, Australia. “The age of entitlement is over,” the country’s former MP Joe Hockey announced a few years...

Personalised vehicle number plates have brought in €15.3 million since they were introduced in Belgium in 2014 - with residents of Flanders making up three-quarters of the requests. New figures released by mobility minister François Bellot in response to a parliamentary question show 12,956...