Doctors in Belgium made 27,266 urgent house calls in 2014, writes the online medical magazine News4Med based on figures from the National Institute for Health and Disability Insurance (Inami). The figure is a 57% decrease compared to the previous year. The General Practitioners (GPs) name changes...

What do you do and how much do you earn? Last summer, I worked at a temp agency in a student job. I was an administrative assistant and it was my job to support the permanent staff with filing, planning and scheduling, answering phones and emails. I also was allowed to look for suitable candidates...

The number of lawyers in Belgium has almost doubled in the last 25 years, to more than 15 lawyers per 10,000 inhabitants. That's almost twice as many as in the neighbouring countries, says lawyer Jan Dyck in Het Nieuwsblad . Dyck is concerned about the explosion in the number of attorneys in recent...

A 43-member team from B-Fast, Belgium’s rapid reaction first aid and support unit, left Melsbroek military airport yesterday for Nepal, as the death toll from the earthquake there on Saturday exceeded 3,300. B-Fast is one of the world’s most experienced rapid response teams, having taken part in...

Australia’s minister for foreign affairs, Julie Bishop, was in West Flanders at the weekend to mark Anzac Day. The date is marked every year to commemorate the start of the Gallipoli campaign, which began on 25 April, 1915 and lasted until 9 January, 1916, with the loss of more than 56,000 Allied...

The City of Brussels wants to include Brussels’ two artisanal brewers, Cantillon and Brasserie de la Senne, in its plans for the upcoming Belgian Beer Palace (BBP), reports brusselnieuws.be. Earlier reports suggested that the two breweries would be left out of the project. However, representatives...

Brussels resident Bernard Lambrechts ( pictured ) was voted Moestasj van ’t Joer, reports brusselnieuws.be. The prize is handed out every year by the Order of the Brussels Moustache, a folkloric association of locals with a penchant for growing extraordinary moustaches. The election took place...

Flemish public transport company De Lijn will in 2018 launch a pilot project with a self-driving bus that rides in a loop around Brussels Airport, reports De Standaard. Mobility minister Ben Weyts has long been a proponent of testing out self-propelled vehicles, he told the newspaper. The project...

During a specially convened summit yesterday in Brussels, Belgium’s prime minister Charles Michel ( pictured ) presented a plan to address the problem of asylum-seekers and refugees who lose their lives every year while trying to enter Europe. The plan includes the provision of additional shelter...

About 1,000 people took to the streets of Brussels on Thursday carrying coffins in a mock funeral procession to mourn the deaths of thousands of migrants attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea. The organisers of the march, which started at Place de la Liberté and ended in Brussels’ Schuman...