Shoe-shop chain Schoenen Torfs has once again been named Best Employer in Belgium in the category of 500 or more employees. The annual award is organised by Vlerick Business School in conjunction with Jobat and the Great Place to Work Institute Belgium. This is the sixth year that Torfs , named...

Police have arrested three youths suspected of planning an attack on the National Bank of Belgium (NBB) in Brussels in what is being described as “the robbery of the century”. The three, two aged 18 and one 19, were originally arrested in February on suspicion of taking part in the robbery of a...

SEGWAY TOUR Spice up your visit to Bruges by exploring it on a Segway – a motorised, upright scooter-type vehicle. If you’ve never been on one before, there’s even a little initiation included before the tour starts. It’s said to be a highly intuitive experience and most people enjoy the novel way...

The number of cyber incidents in Belgium last year more than doubled compared to 2013. In 2014, there were 822 incidents per month on average, compared with 339 in 2013. This is a sevenfold increase compared to 2010, when there were 116 incidents, writes Knack.be based on a report from the federal...

Brussels Intermunicipal Transport Company (Stib) has announced it will start renovation works on the metro station under Brussels’ Central Station at the beginning of next year. The project will take two to three years to complete, and will cost about €25 million, reports Le Soir . The metro...

The federal government is expected to lower the terrorism threat level today from three to two. That means the threat is now seen as “average” rather than “serious”. The terrorism alert level was raised to three (out of four) on 16 January, following a major anti-terror operation in Verviers, Liège...

The Belgian government’s budget for child allowance in 2015 will decrease from €6.6 billion to €6.35 billion to reflect the final budget adjustment based on zero inflation, according to based on a report from the Department of Social Services. The budget for child benefit, a monthly allowance paid...

Eight out of 10 Dutch-speaking children between the ages of six and 14 consider traffic as dangerous, while nearly half (46%) are actually afraid of getting hurt on the road. These startling figures are the result of an online survey carried out by TV channel VTM and the Institute for Mobility (...

The Belgian Tornados relay team on Sunday took home a gold medal on the final day of the European Indoor Athletics Championships in Prague for the men’s 4×400-metre relays. The team, with Julien Watrin and the Borlée brothers, Dylan, Jonathan and Kevin, finished in 3 minutes 02.87 seconds, beating...

For a long time, there was some prejudice against organically brewed beer — it won’t store as long, they said. However, today more and more brewers are going to bio route. Some are striving for authenticity and tradition in their brewing processes, others are doing it out of ecological conviction,...