The biggest party in Brussels this weekend, as well as the quirkiest, is Museum Night Fever on Saturday evening with 23 cultural institutions opening their doors from 19.00-1.00. In addition to exhibitions, they all offer offbeat programming. Brussels Royal Military Museum in Cinquantenaire Park is...

The Foundation Against Cancer has called on the government to ban tanning salons, after a report revealed that there is virtually no official scrutiny of the sector. Tanning salon operators described the call as “drastic”. According to figures from the economy ministry requested by MP Els Van Hoof...

The federal government is bracing itself for a fresh round of industrial action this spring as several large unions have said they are preparing to strike if their demands are not met. Unions have been in talks with government leaders for months about the impact of several new policies, including...

The number of murders and suicides involving firearms in Belgium has decreased significantly since 2006, the direct result of the tightening of the Belgian Firearms Act in the same year, according to the Flemish Peace Institute . In 2006 in Belgium, there were an average of 300 murders and suicides...

Belgians’ preference for paying with cash instead of bank cards costs Belgian banks about €300 million a year. If more people would use cards, as is the case in Scandinavian countries and the Netherlands, the banks would save money on cashpoint machine maintenance and money transport, according to...

Carlos Brito ( pictured ), CEO of the world’s largest brewer AB Inbev, in 2014 received a salary of about €2.22 million, or an average monthly salary of nearly €185,000, according to Jobat. Brito currently takes home less than he did in 2010, when he earned nearly €4.6 million, or about €380,000...

A 2013 European directive on the exchange of traffic information within the European Union has yet to take effect in Belgium, with about half of the fines given to European offenders going unpaid and unenforced, reports La Dernière Heure . Currently, only drivers from France, the Netherlands,...

The Belgian and Dutch governments have pledged to strengthen the ties that bind the two as neighbours, with cross-border co-operation on a number of issues, including fire-fighting, radicalisation and terrorism, airspace and embassies. Representatives of the two governments met on Wednesday in The...

About one-third of the reports of shoplifting in Brussels come from clothing stores, making clothing the most frequently stolen item in Brussels shops, reports brusselnieuws.be. The actual number of thefts is much higher than the number reported, says the federal police. Brussels shopkeepers in...

The amount of money spent on HIV inhibitors and other drugs for managing the disease weigh heavily on patients with HIV in Belgium, report various Belgian media based on research by the University of Hasselt and the AIDS Reference Centre of Ghent University Hospital. "It is the first time in...