More than 20% of pedestrians in Belgium cross the street when the signal is red, thereby endangering their safety, according to a study carried out by the Belgian Road Safety Institute (IBSR) in Brussels and eight other Belgian cities, reports brusselnieuws.be. IBSR collected the data at the end of...

In the first half of 2014, police in Belgium issued an average of 308 fines a day for breaches of the EU rule on the correct use of seat belts and child restraints in the car. The figure, released by interior minister Jan Jambon at the request of MP Sabien Lahaye-Battheu, is a significant increase...

What do you do for work? I give classes on wine and other drinks at the hotel school in Ghent. In the third year, I give classes on water, soft drinks, coffee, tea, the non-alcoholic beverages and the basics of alcoholic fermentation. In the fourth year, students learn to recognise the tastes of...

Brussels Intercommunal Transport Company (Stib) is fitting 1,500 doors on its fleet of older metro cars with a sensitive detection system in order to reduce the number of accidents involving the doors, reports FM Brussel. The doors of the orange metro cars currently only detect whether the doors...

Federal justice minister Koen Geens has decided to set up isolation wings in two Belgian prisons to separate inmates with extremist views from the general prison population, he told De Morgen . The plan was launched following terrorist attacks in Paris and Copenhagen this year, together with the...

I feel a pang of longing to be a student again as I trek through the Free University of Brussels ( VUB) to meet Italian professor Luciano Morganti. But I see that today’s university experience is set firmly in the present as he shows me around his workplace, a modern building on Boulevard de la...

Nearly 62% of all Belgian hotels offer a good wireless internet (wifi) connection, according to the website Hotelwifitest.com . That puts Belgium in 13th place in the world for wifi service, well ahead of most other European countries, reports De Zondag . Good wifi in this case means a download...

Many students at Dutch-speaking universities and colleges in Brussels prefer to live in Leuven, according to TV Brussel. At Odisee University College, more than one in three students who rent a student room do so in Leuven, while at the Luca School of Arts, one in five prefer to live in Leuven...

If two weeks after the end of Brussels’ Book Fair at Tour and Taxis you still find yourself suffering from book withdrawal, maybe it’s time to go exploring some of Belgium’s beautiful spaces devoted to the written word: its libraries. All over the country, public and private, standing alone or in...

Painting the city green this week is the city’s vibrant Irish community. Topping the celebrations is the St Patrick’s Day Parade on Sunday. The family-friendly event starts at 13.00 in Cinquantenaire Park. Organised by the Irish in Europe Association , it is led by the Brussels Caledonian...