The City of Brussels has banned the sale of alcohol during late-night hours in the city's night shops and convenience stores for the duration of the European Football Championship (Euro 2016). The aim of the ban is to minimise noise and trouble in the city centre, writes Bruzz. From now until 10...

An estimated 600 people in Brussels on Sunday afternoon participated in the global march for the closing of all slaughterhouses, the fifth edition of the annual event worldwide and the second edition in Belgium. The red-clad activitsts gathered at Brussels Central Station and marched through the...

The Belgian security services have received indications about a possible terror attack in Brussels during Ramadan, the Muslim fasting period which began last week and runs until 5 July. Police officers and soldiers will therefore provide extra surveillance for the city's café terraces and hospitals...

The general director of the GO! community education network in Brussels has expressed concern that a number of young children are very strictly observing Ramadan, the Muslim month of fasting. According to Jacky Goris, there are children who don’t bring food to school, don’t want to take part in...

The Belgian food industry has brought down the minimum levels of fat and eggs allowed in products defined as “mayonnaise”, with the approval of a new definition by federal consumer affairs minister Kris Peeters. The new minimum for oil content comes down from 80% to 70%, and the egg content from 7...

Based on an urban legend, Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s macabre musical Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street took Broadway by storm in 1979. Sondheim announced at the time that the versatile piece was both opera and musical theatre, depending on where it was staged. Decades later,...

In the Brussels commune of Molenbeek on Friday, an unknown number of youth lit a police car on fire. A second police vehicle was the target of attempted arson in the night from Friday to Saturday. The police are still investigating whether the two incidents are connected. The first vehicle was set...

Belgium's federal police has closed 241 Twitter and Facebook accounts since the establishment of its new Internet Referral Unit (IRU) less than a year ago, says interior minister Jan Jambon in Het Laatste Nieuws and the Sudpresse newspapers. Launched by the European Police Office (Europol) in 2015...

About 20 disgruntled Belgian prison guards this morning gathered outside the private residence of prime minister Charles Michel in Wavre, and rang the bell at 6.00. The prime minister regrets the action, which frightened his wife and baby daughter, writes De Standaard . According to a union source...

Single-use plastic shopping bags will be banned in the Brussels-Capital Region from 1 September 2017, the region’s environment minister, Céline Fremault, has announced. Initially the ban will cover supermarkets before being extended to all retailers in 2018. The EU has called for member states to...