The federal government will mark the anniversary of the terrorist attacks of 22 March 2016 with the unveiling of a monument on Place Schuman in Brussels, near Maelbeek metro station, where one of the bombings took place. The attacks took place on 22 March last year, when two suicide bombers...

A day after Android Pay went live in Belgium, word got out today that Apple Pay will also come to Belgium on 2 May, according to the website MacGeneration. The service allows consumers to pay at a checkout using just their iPhone or Apple Watch. MacGeneration bases its information on leaks from two...

Nowhere in the world is the pay gap between men and women closing faster than in Belgium, writes De Standaard based on figures from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Collectively agreed pay scales are at the basis of the narrowing gender wage gap, according to the...

In 2015, mothers in Belgium gave birth to their first child at an average age of 28.7 years, slightly more than in 2013 when the average age was 28.5 years, according to a study by the European statistics agency Eurostat. At the birth of their second child, Belgian women are 30.9 years old on...

The National Institute of Forensic Science and Criminology (NICC) soon will have two more DNA databases. One will contain genetic material of missing persons and the other of professionals who can unconsciously “pollute” a crime scene. DNA research is increasingly important in identifying suspects...

This year's Brussels Film Festival is in danger of being cancelled after its subsidies were withdrawn. The Brussels-Capital Region and the Wallonia-Brussels Federation will not fund this year's event, according to general manager Ivan Corbisier. "To completely suppress our subsidy is...

Not only government measures, but also hospitality, telecommunications and cultural industries contribute to a rise in inflation in Belgium, points out economy minister Kris Peeters in De Standaard . The minister is therefore calling for resolute action. Peeters views the federal government's...

Thousands of women and men worldwide demonstrated against social, legal, political, moral and verbal injustices against women. Under the slogan, 'International Women's Strike', demonstrators gathered on Wednesday at numerous events across Belgium, especially in Brussels, Genk and Ghent, writes De...

The European Court of Justice (EJC) in Luxembourg has upheld the decision by federal asylum and migration secretary Theo Francken not to issue a humanitarian visa to a family in Syria wanting to come to Belgium to claim asylum. Francken himself said he was satisfied with the ruling, while...

Single-person households will make up half of all Belgian households by 2060, wrote various Belgian media yesterday based on a prediction from the Federal Planning Bureau (FPB). "Belgium is increasingly urban," agrees VUB demographer Patrick Deboosere, who points out that this is already the case...