Up to 800,000 people risk losing some of their savings after the advocate-general of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in Luxembourg handed down an opinion declaring that a state guarantee given by the federal government in 2009 was against EU law. The clients are shareholders in Arco, the...

Mohammed Abrini, the third suspect in the terrorist attacks on Brussels Airport on 22 March, who fled the scene without detonating his bomb, was under police surveillance since July of last year, the French newspaper Le Parisien has reported. In June of last year, Abrini, otherwise known as “the...

Up With People, an American educational organisation with a mission to bridge cultural barriers through voluntary service and music, is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a concert in Brussels this weekend - rescheduled after the events in Paris last November. Started in 1965, UWP was an...

The giant panda Hao Hao on Wednesday night gave birth to a baby in the Belgian zoo Pairi Daiza, announced the zoo together with the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda. News of the birth made headlines around the world, as the giant panda is on the IUCN Red List of Threatened...

As of 2012, there were 5,326 non-Belgian doctors with an active INAMI number working in Belgium, according to figures from the FPS Health. The foreign doctors account for more than 10% of the 44,741 active physicians in the country, writes La Dernière Heure . The majority of foreign doctors come...

Belgium's national football team, the Red Devils on Wednesday took on Finland in a pre-Euro 2016 friendly match which ended in a 1-1 draw. The Belgians played a stronger match, agrees the international media. Belgium initially fell behind after a goal by Finland's Hämäläinen. But a goal by Red...

Some 40% of people in Belgium don’t fully understand their doctor’s explanation of their condition or of the advised treatment, according to a survey by the Onafhankelijke Ziekenfondsen (OZ), or Independent Mutualities. Seventeen percent of the 1,033 participants who took part in the survey clearly...

This year's Carolus V Festival is putting an accent on gastronomy - and Family Day on 5 June is no exception. Visitors will be invited to take part in a Renaissance banquet with dishes based on centuries' old recipes. There will also be a zythology workshop (zythology is to beer what oenology is to...

I’m tempted to say that the best place to see Bruegel: Unseen Masterpieces is on the internet rather than at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts in Brussels. But then something would be missing. “Nothing corresponds to experiencing the original works,” says Isabelle Vanhoonacker, head of public services...

Researchers at the University of Leuven (KU Leuven) have developed a new technique that makes it possible to check the quality of chocolate via ultrasound imaging, technology normally used to monitor the health of foetuses in the womb. The method was developed to assist companies in the chocolate...