Belgium will not get a new €2 coin in commemoration of the Battle of Waterloo, which took place 200 years ago, ending the reign of French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. Belgium has scrapped plans for the creation of the coin after France made its opposition clear. In a letter to the European Council,...

Belgium’s Constitutional Court has ruled that children should not be required to follow religion or morals lessons in the country’s primary and secondary schools. Parents can now simply request that their children do not receive such lessons. A year ago, a Brussels couple took the issue of...

The Belgian importer of French automotive group PSA Peugeot Citroën is to reduce its workforce by 96 employees, the company announced on Thursday during a special meeting at its Belgian headquarters in Braine-l’Alleud. The entire staff in Belgium will be downsized by about a quarter. The...

The number of babies born by caesarean section in Europe varies greatly from country to country, suggesting that there is no consensus about when a caesarean is appropriate, according to a recent study. In Belgium, one in five babies are born by caesarean section, a relatively low number compared...

To the uninitiated, “performance art” seems a rather vague category, a taxonomical catch-all for any experience that is endured in an artistic context but doesn’t quite qualify as “theatre” or “dance”—usually because it’s too weird or too boring. The cognoscenti, on the other hand, consider it the...

Some 8,000 workers representing the country’s three largest unions demonstrated yesterday on Muntplein in central Brussels in protest at the government’s proposed pension reforms. Union leaders said that further protests were planned this month to show their opposition to government measures such...

After months of discussions, the Brussels-Capital Region and French car manufacturer PSA Peugeot Citroën have agreed on the terms of sale for the Region’s purchase of the historic Citroën building at Place de l’Yser, where the Brussels government intends to house a new contemporary art museum,...

In light of recent terrorist attacks in Paris and Copenhagen and the foiled attacks in Belgium, the representatives of various religious groups have organised a march this Sunday in Brussels, to prevent the further polarisation of people with different beliefs, reports demens.nu. The groups are...

Parents of some of the children who died in the school bus crash in Switzerland three years ago this month have created a foundation to raise money for further investigations into the accident. The parents are not satisfied with the enquiry by Swiss authorities. “With the Stichting Busramp Sierre,...

Belgian rail company SNCB’s new ticket policy is not popular with the train attendants, who risk losing an average of €100 per month commission on the sale of tickets, reports Het Laatste Nieuws . Since 1 February, SNCB encourages travellers to buy a ticket before boarding the train, while those...