German environment minister Barbara Hendricks has asked Belgium to close the nuclear reactors Doel 3 in East Flanders and Tihange 2 in Liège province temporarily until they are determined to be safe. Germany will close down its own reactors by 2022, she said. The two Belgian reactors were closed in...

During a meeting on Wednesday between the Brussels government and the social partners, several measures were put forward to provide emergency relief to businesses suffering from the effects of the March terror attacks in the capital. These include a free public transport pass for tourists, a budget...

Belgian railway company SNCB will invest €80 million in the renovation of Brussels South station, announced minister-president Rudi Vervoort in the Brussels parliament. Mobility and public works minister Pascal Smet reacted with disappointment, calling the investment “substandard”, according to...

The organisers of major Belgian music festivals like Rock Werchter, Tomorrowland, Graspop, the Gentse Feesten and Lokerse Feesten on Monday will meet to discuss the security measures to be taken this summer, writes Het Nieuwsblad . Due to the increased terror threat level in Belgium, the festival...

Tehran-born French national Shéhérazade Semsar-de Boisséson is managing director of Politico Europe, the Brussels wing of the ambitious US multi-platform news service. It was launched in April 2015 following the acquisition of EU policy weekly European Voice, which Semsar-de Boisséson had owned and...

Brussels has its first "street workout park" with the installation of new equipment in the Maximilian Park. The park provides a permanent workout space for the Brussels street workout club Wolf's Bar, writes Bruzz. Street workouts are exercises done using basic equipment that utilises your own body...

Belgium last week was the notable absentee at a European expert meeting on public transport. After the March terror attacks in Brussels, the organisation added a special section on metro safety, but the Belgian ministers were not present at the meeting, writes Politico. The land transport security...

About a quarter of the business leaders in Belgium are doing everything they can to avoid using Brussels Airport since the terror attacks of 22 March. The figures are bad news for the airport, which relies on businesses for at least 40% of their passenger numbers, writes De Morgen . The results...

About 3.1 million Belgians have given health-care providers permission to exchange their data via an electronic patient file, four times as many as the same time last year. The figures come from the Christian Mutuality (CM), which made the announcement to coincide with European Patient Rights’ Day...

The Brussels region has set an ambitious goal to locally produce 30% of the fruit and vegetables that its residents consume by 2035. The figure currently stands at 1%. There might be a long way to go - but the good news is that Brussels has great potential for urban gardening and no space is too...