An appearance before the parliamentary investigative committee by the director of the Islamic and Cultural Centre (ICC), which runs the Great Mosque in Brussels, was a “missed opportunity” to show any co-operation to combat radicalism, according to committee members. Jamal Saleh Momenah was invited...

By the end of 2017, the Museum of Natural Sciences in Brussels hopes to unveil a new exhibition on the Plateosaurus, 'Ben', a five metre long dinosaur fossil skeleton that is 210 million years old. To finance the project, the Museum has launched a crowdfunding page with an aim to raise €25,000,...

The arrival of a new CEO has brought with it a pledge from national rail authority SNCB: more trains and shorter journey times. The promise was made by Sophie Dutordoir, less than a week after taking over from former CEO Jo Cornu. The changes, she said, will include more trains at the weekend, with...

The rather bureaucratic sounding name, the 'German-speaking Community of Belgium' will no longer be used, reports De Morgen . The rolling, green region in the East Cantons will henceforth be referred to as Ostbelgien , or East Belgium. The new brand was presented today in St Vith. With the new name...

An average of 71 working days per 1,000 workers are lost every year in Belgium as a result of strikes, according to an analysis by the German research institute WSI for the period 2006-2015. The result puts Belgium in fourth place worldwide. France tops the list with 123 days per 1,000 employees,...

The majority parties in the federal parliament have reached an agreement on a bill to make squatting illegal. The agreement follows widespread reports of a house in Ghent that has been taken over by a Roma community in the absence of the owners who are currently abroad. The squatters have been...

Starting in 2018, registration in Dutch-speaking secondary education in Brussels will no longer be organised via a first-come, first-served basis. Instead, a lottery is being introduced. In the current system, parents sign their kids up online immediately once registrations are open, hurrying to...

Ghent’s renowned theatre company Ontroerend Goed c elebrates its 15th anniversary with The Infinite Trilogy , in English three days in a row. First, presented with the Sydney Theatre Company, is The History of Everything, based partially on Richard Dawkins' work and covering everything from now...

Belgian dignitaries will take place in commemoration ceremonies in three locations next Wednesday, marking the first anniversary of the terrorist attacks at Brussels Airport and Maelbeek metro station. The attacks on 22 March 2016 killed 32 people and injured more than 300. That morning, three men...

E-commerce in Belgium grew by 10% last year, for a total sales volume of €9.1 billion, a new record, according to BeCommerce whose annual figures reveal that 8.4 million Belgians made a total of 85 million purchases online in 2016, or slightly less than one order per person per month. The figures...