Extra police forces have been deployed at Christmas markets in Brussels, Ghent and Antwerp following what is being called a terrorist attack on Berlin’s Christmas market last night. A reported 12 people were killed and more than 50 injured when a man drove a lorry into the crowd. According to a...

Belgium and Germany have signed a deal to exchange information regarding nuclear power plant safety. Interior Minister Jan Jambon and the German environment minister Barbara Hendricks signed the agreement in Brussels on Monday. Both countries will assemble a commission to meet and share details on...

During the Christmas holiday period, Brussels Airport will open a family lane with a new security procedure specially adapted for families with young children. Some 180,000 passengers are expected to travel to and from the capital over the course of the holidays. Friday 23 December will see around...

Queen Mary University of London has removed two commemorative plaques laid by King Leopold II following a wave of student protests decrying the 19th century monarch's colonialist history. Campaigners felt that the plaques would cause offence to students of certain ethnic backgrounds and described...

As part of the expansion of community mental healthcare provision – redirecting funding from institutional psychiatric care – a series of multidisciplinary outreach teams for adults, providing short- and long-term care, has been established across the country in the past five years. In 2015,...

Brussels public transport authority STIB has been asked to start a campaign aimed at raising the awareness of male passengers to the horrors of “manspreading”. You may be in the need of some elucidation, or “mansplaining”. It goes like this: When seated on a bus or tram seat intended for one, men...

More than seven million bank card transactions were made throughout Belgium on Saturday, with shoppers flooding the high streets and shopping outlets in search of Christmas gifts and end-of-year deals. With Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve both falling on a Saturday this year, the weekend marked...

The Belgian rail operator SNCB has appointed a new chief executive in former Electrabel CEO Sophie Dutordoir. She becomes the first woman to take charge of the transport company, and will replace the outgoing Jo Cornu. The decision was made during a ministerial select committee meeting on Friday,...

56 people arrested during an anti-fascist demonstration in Brussels on Sunday have been released, according to the Brussels prosecutor’s office. Police were forced to intervene in proceedings when a minority of demonstrators began to smash windows of bank branches and damage bus stops between Place...

What is your job? I am an administrator/funeral undertaker for Jaeken’s Funeral Undertakers in Peer (Limburg province). I am mainly responsible for the care and laying-out of the deceased, I notify the commune or town authorities of the death, I take care of the administration and the invoicing...