The Paris terror attacks that killed 129 people and injured 352 were "prepared in Belgium", France's interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve announced on Sunday. The confirmed connection with Belgium came as more police raids were carried out on the Brussels district of Molenbeek on Sunday evening...

The arrival of the new shopping complex Uplace in Machelen will lead to the creation of 3,249 new permanent jobs, according to a study by the University of Cambridgde. The two-year construction phase is expected to provide work for as many 5,627 people, the study shows. According to Uplace, the...

The City of Brussels has unveiled a new wall mural in the Marolles district, featuring Quick and Flupke, characters from the famous comic strip series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé, the father of Tintin. It is the 54th mural along the comic strip route in Brussels, the self-proclaimed 'comic book...

Every day hundreds of individual asylum seekers start their journey through Brussels, which brings them to all the locations and agencies involved in their challenging quest for safety and shelter. Due to the increased media attention on the refugee crisis in August and September, most of the...

Winning a highly cherished Michelin star is one achievement; holding on to it is another. But when restaurant hotel Le Cor de Chasse moved from Barvaux to the picturesque village of Wéris in 2013, food critics continued to be wowed by owner chef Mario Elias’s fine cuisine in its latest, magnificent...

Belgium has increased its terror threat level from 2 to 3 at big sporting and cultural events, following the co-ordinated attacks in Paris on Friday night in which 129 people were killed and 352 injured. Belgian prime minister Charles Michel made the announcement late on Saturday night, after a...

Le Jardin des Bégards won a Michelin star in 2013 with local chef François Piscitello adamant that he would not compromise his creative style of cuisine. He described the award as “the cherry on the cake” of a long career in the province of Liège. Proudly self-taught, Piscitello has intuitively...

Fans of body art can seek inspiration at the Brussels Tattoo Convention held in Tour & Taxis this weekend. The sixth edition welcomes 220 of the top tattoo artists in the world, hailing from the UK, US, Canada, France, Luxembourg, Russia and Germany, among other countries. There’s also live and...

The complexity of the police and political structures in Brussels is a large part of why Belgium has supplied more jihad fighters to IS than any other country, according to federal home affairs minister Jan Jambon. According to figures from the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation,...

The government’s decision to give Bpost the contract for delivering newspapers and magazines has safeguarded 3,500 jobs that would otherwise have been at risk, according to analysis by business magazine Trends. The sum paid by the government for the service, part of a package of “services of...