Brussels Airport last year responded 13 times to a crash alert, an alarm sent out by an aircraft in distress while approaching the national airport, including both cargo and passenger aircraft. The figure has not been this low in 30 years, according to a survey by fire and emergency medical care...

Belgian municipalities last year registered 24,360 living wills for euthanasia, report the Sudpresse newspapers today based on figures from Federal Public Health. That's 3,946 more than in 2013. A mentally competent adult can have a living will drawn up in advance to explicitly request voluntary...

Brussels is burning. Between terrorist raids, growing manifestations for and against the presence of Islam in Europe, and protests against the policies of the new federal government, there is much chew over for the politically-minded Brusselaar. But where do you go to hash out the latest...

British celebrity chef Jamie Oliver has plans to take his restaurant Jamie’s Italian to the Netherlands this autumn. He then intends to expand the restaurant chain into Germany and Belgium. The UK’s most famous chef became known in the 1990s for his uniquely casual yet exciting culinary programmes...

The CEO of tech company Aristoco, Geert Houben, has become the first Belgian ever to be invited by ICT giant Google to participate in its prestigious boot camp BlackBox Connect. Google has ranked Aristoco’s application Cubigo among the 15 most promising start-up projects in the world. Aristoco,...

Belgian artist Luc Tuymans ( pictured ) said he will appeal a judgement against him in a case of plagiarism brought by a photojournalist from De Standaard newspaper. An Antwerp court ruled this week that Tuymans had appropriated the intellectual property of photographer Katrijn Van Giel for his...

McDonald's aims to create 500 new jobs in Belgium by the end of 2017, the fast food chain announced on Wednesday. Three-quarters of those jobs will go to young people under the age of 25. McDonald’s will this year open four new restaurants across Belgium, creating an average of 40 jobs per site in...

According to a survey of 70,000 refugees and asylum seekers who arrived in Belgium between 2000 and 2010, about a quarter of them found a job. The newcomers had nearly twice as many job opportunities in Flanders as in Wallonia, reports De Morgen . It was already known that non-European immigrants,...

Behind an innocuous shopfront in the heart of Brussels, a few steps from the canal, a new project is taking shape. The Brussels Beer Project has moved into 188 Rue Antoine Dansaert with plans to transform it into a modern community brewery. Fresh from a trip to Switzerland to check out the...

Buildings in Brussels’ Rue de la Régence were evacuated yesterday after a letter containing a bomb threat was delivered to the Royal Conservatory. Security levels were high because the area is home to not only Brussels’ Justice Palace but also the Great Synagogue of Europe. The letter was delivered...