Belgian retailers lost about 1.16% of their turnover in 2013 to shoplifting and vendor fraud, according to the Global Retail Theft Barometer released Thursday by Checkpoint Systems. Losses through shoplifting and vendor fraud, theft by staff and administrative errors, accounted for €880 million on...

Prison officers across Belgium went on a 24-hour strike as of Thursday at 22.00, reports Serge De Prez of the Christian trade union ACV-CSC. The strike affects all prisons in the country, said the trade unionist. He could not say whether all the striking officers would be replaced by police...

Belgium-based pharmaceutical company Omega Pharma NV was sold to Perrigo in a bid to expand its portfolio of over-the-counter drugs and broaden its presence in the European market. Omega founder and Chief Executive Mark Coucke signed his company over to the American international pharmaceutical...

Flemish Socialist party SP.A is standing “shoulder to shoulder” with the protesters who are marching through Brussels today, said party president Bruno Tobback. The protestors – who have come from all over Belgium to demonstrate in the capital – are upset at tough austerity measures introduced by...

The Brussels and the Flemish governments are working together to make integration courses for foreigners in Brussels compulsory. The ordinance will be submitted in the coming weeks, reports Brusselnieuws.be. The agreement is the result of a meeting between ministers Rudi Vervoort (PS) and Geert...

Businesses in Belgium have cash in hand of at least €240 million, which they are on the verge of investing, according to a study by the consultancy Deloitte. B-information, which collects financial data, delivered findings to Deloitte that show, according to 2013 tax returns, that the business...

Brussels is full of museums. You’ve roamed the galleries of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium , seen the latest exhibition in the Bozar , and peered into a Velociraptor’s mouth at the Institute of Natural Sciences . But in the quirky city of Brussels, there are certainly some peculiar...

Research by Flemish family agency Kind en Gezin (Child and Family) shows that 24 child daycare centres located in suburbs of the Flemish periphery around Brussels do not meet the language requirements imposed on them by the Flemish government’s new childcare decree. According to the decree, the...

Belgium has one of the world’s most innovative economies, according to the German Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), reports De Tijd . The researchers evaluated 35 developed countries and gave them a score based on the extent to which their economy supports the areas that are of key...

If the federal government’s plans for selectively turning off the electricity supply to certain areas this winter, a so-called brownout, are implemented, all train traffic in Belgium would come to a standstill, according to the National Belgian Railway authority SNCB . The proposed brownout plan is...