The 15 major shopping centres in Belgium saw their visitor numbers decrease by 2.7% in the last quarter of 2015, compared to the same period in 2014. "The terror alert clearly played a role," says the Belgium Luxembourg Council of Shopping Centers (BLPR) in a press release, reports Het Laatste...

The Catholic education network is supporting schools with lots of Muslim pupils in the event they want to adjust their summer exam schedules to take Ramadan into account. The Islamic month of fasting takes place in June this year, which will make the exam period at the end of the school year harder...

The Belgian tax authorites have been ordered to reclaim about €700 million from 35 multinationals, after the European Commission ruled that Belgium granted the corporations a number of considerable tax benefits that are in breach of EU State aid rules, reports Het Laatste Nieuws . The ruling...

One of the brand’s main aims is to demonstrate Wallonia’s openness to the world, reaching out beyond its borders to promote the development of the region with an emphasis on its competitive strengths and its outstanding features in terms of economy, culture and tourism. It’s no surprise, then, that...

Police in Belgium and the UK have dismantled a large gang of human traffickers, leading to the arrest of 10 suspects in Belgium and two in the UK, various Belgian media report. The traffickers are accused of smuggling about 20 undocumented passengers across the Channel every day by lorry. The...

Antwerp University is looking for healthy volunteers who want to donate a sample of snot, to examine the bacteria in the nose. Scientists will compare the bacteria with that of sinusitis patients, with the goal of developing a treatment against the condition. Sinusitis is most often the result of...

Belgian photographer Cédric Gerbehaye has spent most of his career documenting civil strife and war in Congo, the Middle East and South Sudan. But in his latest project, D'entre eux, he came home to reveal his countrymen and women as they live their lives shaken by political and economic crises. In...

The Council of State has raised “serious objections” to the government of Flanders’ handling of Uplace, the planned shopping and leisure complex to be built in Machelen, just outside of Brussels. According to Bart Somers, mayor of nearby Mechelen, one of the leading opponents of the complex, the...

The city council of Ghent has approved a long-awaited circulation plan for the city, wherein pedestrians and cyclists will have more freedom, while motorists will be diverted around the city centre. The new plan, scheduled to go into effect on 3 April, 2017, divides the city of Ghent into seven...

Brussels playwright Ismaël Saidi has pulled out of a film project against radicalisation, shortly after it was announced that the Brussels-Capital Region would provide €275,000 to support the project. Saidi faced harsh criticism, especially from various politicians, after the plans were made known...