Last Thursday, five young entrepreneurs took centre stage on the Schuman Roundabout in front of an audience of around 350 people. Scooty , Butler , Exiin , Comme Les Loups and Zendo were selected by StartIt@KBC Brussels to address the audience on their innovative solutions. They each received one...

Belgium's federal government has scrapped plans to introduce a "sugar tax" on sweets, yoghurts, cereals and sandwich spreads, reports L'Echo. The increased excise duty already applies to soft drinks since this year and was due to be expanded to other types of sugary food and drink in 2017, bringing...

New winter train times will see the addition of 77 extra services on Brussels' suburban rail network from this week, the SNCB has announced. The latest changes are particularly aimed at off-peak travellers, with more trains between 10.00 and 15.00 on some suburban lines that were until now focused...

While the romantic ruins of Villers-la-Ville abbey in Walloon Brabant are familiar to many as a dramatic backdrop to outdoor theatre and music, audiences rarely appreciate the full grandeur of this outstanding example of monastic architecture. Now, a new entrance and interpretation centre provide...

Zebrabook: Embark on a European adventure The European Tour is a personalised storybook where children embark on an adventure-filled journey around the continent - planting tulips in the Netherlands, putting Swiss cuckoo clocks back together, consoling a Romanian vampire and enjoying a cup of tea...

“We took a boat without exactly knowing what direction it would take us,” says Gabriela Carrizo. It’s all part of the organic creative process specific to Peeping Tom. Carrizo – the Argentinian choreographer you may know from her leading role in Kid, a movie by the Flemish director Fien Troch – co-...

Mini-Europe, the theme park at Heysel in Brussels that contains miniatures of European landmarks, will be kept in the new Neo shopping and leisure centre planned for the site. The water park Océade will remain open until at least October 2018. “We can guarantee [Mini-Europe’s] activities on the...

Spanish clothing chain Zara has escaped paying €18 million in tax to Belgium because of a number of fiscal loopholes, according to the Green fraction of the European parliament. In a report published this week, the party examines Zara’s fiscal constructions operating across Europe. The holding...

A proposal to allow people to pay into their future pension fund for the years spent in higher education has been struck down by federal coalition parties N-VA and CD&V. The proposal was made by pension minister Daniel Bacquelaine of French-speaking coalition party MR. In order to claim a full...

An exhibition in Brussels sets out to convince us that the greatest painter of the 20th century was also a great sculptor. It doesn’t quite succeed, but it is full of pleasures for Picasso aficionados, along with insights into the way he worked and the objects that inspired him. Picasso was trained...