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Red Devils narrowly slip past Norway

The Belgian Red Devils on Sunday won their last friendly match before the start of the European Championship (Euro 2016) later this week by beating Norway 3-2 in a sold-out King Baudouin Stadium in Brussels. Romelu Lukaku opened the scoring in the third minute. But two subsequent goals by Norway's...

New stadium will cost Brussels taxpayers, says magazine

The new national football stadium will cost Brussels taxpayers tens or even hundreds of millions of euros, according to Belgian magazine Médor . The financing of the stadium has raised a lot of questions in recent weeks as the costs begin to add up. The Brussels authorities had vowed that the...

BX.Grown invites Brussels youth to try hand at farming

BX.Grown has launched an initiative to give Brussels youth the chance to grow and harvest their own vegetables at Neerhof Farm in Dilbeek, just outside of Brussels. The BX.Grown project will also organise an organic market on the farm every Sunday, writes Bruzz. "We want to provide youngsters and...

Show of strength: Scottish artist's wooden sculptures at beautiful Château de Seneffe

Left to ruin for decades, the 18th-century Château de Seneffe, after 20 years of meticulous restoration at a cost of €3m, is an outstanding monument - with not only one of Europe's premier silverware collection but also a theatre, an orangerie, an aviary, 55 acres of beech woods, a parc à l'...

Tradfest Belgium: a six-day celebration of Irish music and culture

What is Tradfest? Tradfest is a festival of Irish music and culture that will run in various places around Belgium between the 7 and 12 June. It's the biggest such festival that has ever been done, to our knowledge, with more than 40 events in 20 venues and about 70 different musicians, musical...

Northern Ireland's deputy first minister visits Flanders Fields

The deputy first minister of Northern Ireland, Martin McGuinness, paid a visit to the battlefields of West Flanders this week, together with Flemish minister-president Geert Bourgeois. McGuinness, one of the co-heads of the Northern Ireland Executive, first stopped at the Island of Ireland Peace...

Court strikes down deal for Arco shareholders in Dexia

Up to 800,000 people risk losing some of their savings after the advocate-general of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in Luxembourg handed down an opinion declaring that a state guarantee given by the federal government in 2009 was against EU law. The clients are shareholders in Arco, the...

Airport bomber monitored by police since last summer

Mohammed Abrini, the third suspect in the terrorist attacks on Brussels Airport on 22 March, who fled the scene without detonating his bomb, was under police surveillance since July of last year, the French newspaper Le Parisien has reported. In June of last year, Abrini, otherwise known as “the...

'Bringing people together': Brussels concert marks 50 years of Up With People

Up With People, an American educational organisation with a mission to bridge cultural barriers through voluntary service and music, is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a concert in Brussels this weekend - rescheduled after the events in Paris last November. Started in 1965, UWP was an...

Giant panda born in Pairi Daiza

The giant panda Hao Hao on Wednesday night gave birth to a baby in the Belgian zoo Pairi Daiza, announced the zoo together with the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda. News of the birth made headlines around the world, as the giant panda is on the IUCN Red List of Threatened...

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