Belgian prime minister Charles Michel paid a visit to British prime minister Theresa May on Tuesday, the first meeting between the two since May took office in July following the UK’s vote to leave the European Union. Speaking afterwards, Michel said he had expressed his desire to see what he...

Children in Belgium this year are sending letters to Saint Nicolas en masse , reports the Belgian postal service Bpost. In preparation for the 6 December Feast Day, kids are sending in their drawings, defunct dummies and requests for toys. Bpost reports already 40% more letters addressed to the...

The young Brussels singer Ellie Delvaux, stage name Blanche, was chosen by the French-speaking public broadcaster RTBF as the best candidate to represent Belgium at the 62nd edition of the Eurovision Song Contest next year in Ukraine, writes Het Laatste Nieuws . The 16-year-old Blanche will compete...

Pilots of the German airline Lufthansa will extend their 24-hour strike today until Thursday, announced the pilots' union Vereinigung Cockpit (VC), after the appeals court again ruled in favour of the pilots despite Lufthansa's efforts to halt the strike. The pilots and the airline are in the...

Terror suspect Salah Abdeslam, who is currently incarcerated in France, should never be allowed to return to Belgium, according to state secretary for asylum and migration Theo Francken. While Abdeslam was already scrapped from the population register of Molenbeek-Saint-Jean in June, Francken is...

A plan by the Brussels-Capital Region to cut the E40 between Leuven and Brussels from six lanes in each direction to four has been described as “madness” by the motoring organisation Touring. The plan was announced yesterday by the region’s minister-president, Rudi Vervoort. The project is part of...

Tour operator Thomas Cook today celebrates its 175th anniversary with the release of 175 balloons over each of the 10 Belgian provinces. Inside each balloon is a voucher for two return flights from Brussels Airport, allowing as many as 3,500 lucky finders to escape to a sunny destination this...

Belgian beers have won 40 medals at the Brussels Beer Challenge, including the top award, which went to Oude Geuze Cuvée René from Lindemans brewery. The United States, however, took the most medals, with 45. The event was held in the Bourse building in downtown Brussels, which will soon become the...

In 2015, 10,171 children under nine years of age visited an orthodontist in Belgium to be fitted with braces, an increase of 27% in five years, report the Mediahuis newspapers based on figures from the national institute for health and disability insurance (Inami). Specialists encourage the earlier...

By 2025, all youngsters in the Brussels-Capital Region should understand what it means to be an entrepreneur – that’s the ambition of the regional government. To help achieve that goal, the government has established the Young Entrepreneurs of Tomorrow (Yet) initiative, which recently selected four...