Moving to Belgium with a family is full of big decisions, but one of the most important decisions you’ll make is where to put your child into school. School attendance is required here for children from ages six to 18. But there is a wide variety of choices of the type of school in which you enrol...

Belgium has risen from the 12 th to the 10 th place in an international ranking of the most reputable countries. "Belgium is mainly seen as a safe and ethical country," the study concludes. According to the results of the 2015 Country RepTrak study by the Reputation Institute, Canada, Norway,...

The Brussels police want to see 2,900 security cameras installed on Brussels streets by 2018. "You can’t put a police agent on every corner," explains commanding officer Johan De Becker in Le Peuple . "There are already test cameras operational in the communes west of Brussels since April." Exactly...

Brussels’ Place Sainte-Catherine on Wednesday inaugurated 10 new terraces, putting an end to the “no man’s land” in front of the church, according to Brussels minister Marion Lemesre. Not everybody is pleased with the addition, however, including a campaign group set up on Facebook to protest...

Federal MP Nele Lijnen (Open VLD) plans to propose a bill banning the use of trans-fats in all foodstuffs in Belgium, following the US example. Trans-fats are unsaturated fats of animal or vegetable origin that have been partially hydrogenated – treated with hydrogen – to make them solid or semi-...

A plan by Flemish public transport authority De Lijn to scrap the night bus service between Anderlecht in Brussels and Brussels Airport in Zaventem is “a bad idea,” according to Paul Delva, fraction leader for CD&V in the Brussels parliament. Line 620 runs from Erasmus Hospital in Anderlecht...

The 60-year-old ‘mayonnaise law’ in Belgium is outdated and urgently needs updating, according to the country’s mayonnaise manufacturers. The law states that mayonnaise produced in Belgium must contain at least 80% fat and 7.5% egg yolk. These minimums do not apply to mayonnaise produced outside of...

Check out the young woman in the photo above. What is she doing? She is at the Gentse Feesten, so the possibilities are many. Is she drunk? Is she engaged in performance art? Has she has eaten too much fried food? Or is she just a typical tree-hugging hippie Gentenaar ? During the Gentse Feesten –...

After 35 years of making documentaries with a social conscience, Thierry Michel ’s work is uncompromising; it follows the harrowing yet inspiring work of the doctor who repairs women sexually abused in ongoing conflicts in DRC. The majority are raped by militias and soldiers who use sex as a weapon...

Caesarean sections are less clinical than in the past, with doctors now emphasising the importance of direct skin-to-skin contact between mother and child. The so-called ‘gentle’ caesarean (c-section), already a rising trend in neighbouring countries, is now increasingly common in Belgium, as well...