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...

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 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...

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'...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...