Telenet, the Mechelen-based internet and cable TV provider, has taken over mobile phone operator Base from Dutch owner KPN for €1.33 billion. The acquisition gives Telenet its own mobile network for the first time. The deal commits Telenet to invest €240 million on top of the sale price in the...

Goodbye European Voice, hello Politico. The Washington-based political news site Politico has taken over European Voice, with the launch of a new editorial office in Brussels this week. The editorial team of Politico.eu has bold plans to dive headfirst into European politics and “incite a...

Brussels mobility minister Pascal Smet and mayor Yvan Mayeur on Monday discussed plans for more car parks on the outskirts of the capital. The intention is to encourage commuters and visitors to leave their cars there and take public transport or bicycles into the city centre, reports brusselnieuws...

Belgium’s minister of development co-operation, Alexander De Croo, has pledged €36 million to the international organisation Global Partnership for Education. De Croo, who is currently in Washington, confirmed the funding during a speech last weekend at the US capital’s National Mall to mark Global...

Digital agenda minister Alexander De Croo (pictured) yesterday presented a plan to make Belgium one of the world’s most digitally advanced countries. The minister wants to see Belgium join Europe’s top three digital leaders, with the creation of 1,000 startup companies and 50,000 jobs within the...

Professor Willem Elias of the Free University of Brussels (VUB) has announced that he is voluntarily giving up his position as dean of the faculty of psychology and education sciences. He was widely criticised for a Facebook post he made after the suicide of Flemish politician Steve Stevaert...

Passengers travelling from Brussels Airport this week are advised to arrive well in advance of their flight, as the federal police carry out actions to denounce what they are calling “a serious staff shortage” at the airport. "Especially passengers to non-Schengen destinations, such as the UK, US...

It was perhaps one of the strangest traffic warnings ever: three zebras running free in the area of the Van Praet bridge in Brussels on Friday, reported by the traffic service of VRT. The animals had escaped from a ranch in the Koningslo district of Vilvoorde. There had originally been four...

Brussels Quality Medical (BQM) will open Belgium’s first medical centre in a public transport hub, Metro reports. The new medical centre, set to open in the Brussels central metro station in early May, will cater to commuters and workaholics who continue to postpone a doctor’s visit due to time...

The Belgian housing market’s low interest rates of the past few months have enticed a number of property buyers to make hasty decisions, leading to financial trouble for some, according to Didier Noël, coordinator at the Central Individual Credit Register of the National Bank of Belgium. Noël told...