A budget of €20 million has been earmarked for the development over three years of the pedestrian zone in the centre of Brussels. Beliris, the body which cooperates with the Brussels Capital Region and the federal level on the promotion of Brussels, gave its green light to the budgetary agreement...

Health minister Maggie De Block and Belgian pharmaceutical organisations Pharma.be and FeBelGen signed an agreement on Monday which will see an overall drop in the price of generic drugs for patients. Presented as a ‘win-win’ pact, the agreement foresees a raft of changes to the pharmaceutical...

Today, we’re long past the days when knitting was seen as purely the domain of wrinkled grannies in rocking chairs by the fire. But when Kaleidoscope first opened, knitting was just emerging from two decades of dark ages for the craft, fuelled by a fashion industry that declared yarn work decidedly...

According to a census launched in 2006, there are currently 426,939 declared firearms for 108,579 firearms’ holders in Belgium. The census was started following the entry into force of the Onkelinx law, which stipulates that a person in possession of a firearm must declare it. The provinces with...

Around 40 employees at the Doel nuclear power plant, East Flanders, have been summoned to take a lie detector test. Investigators hope the test will provide a breakthrough in their inquiry into what happened nearly a year ago at the plant, when it was sabotaged by unknown culprits. The inquiry has...

A group of Stib/MIVB ticket inspectors were attacked on Sunday at around 7.00 by a group of youths at Brussels’ Porte de Hal metro. Four of the inspectors had to be taken to hospital as a result of the injuries they sustained. The gang of youths who attacked the inspectors, around five individuals...

The federal government’s budget and tax shift, announced last week, was intended according to prime minister Charles Michel to fulfil three objectives: jobs, jobs and jobs. However, according to an informal survey by newspaper De Morgen among business leaders, this result is far from guaranteed. “I...

Almost half of all second-hand car sales inspected last year by inspectors of the economy ministry showed signs of irregularities, the ministry reports. Inspectors looked into 781 sellers outside the traditional forecourt sales circuit: sellers on the public highway, on the internet and those who...

There are many reasons why you might want to give your time to help others. There’s something about living abroad, spending time away from family and friends, that makes you realise that we rely on the kindness of strangers to get by. Most of us have been helped through rough patches by others, and...

Animals, farming, forestry and food… for its 81st edition, Libramont Fair is preparing once again to show off its agricultural know-how to visitors from home and abroad. It certainly has a long and illustrious history. The event was founded in 1926 by a group of enterprising horse breeders who were...