The regional governments of Brussels, Flanders and Wallonia will come together with the federal government every month for meetings of the Joint Committee to discuss the country’s major challenges such as the budget and terrorism. During a meeting of the Joint Committee yesterday, prime minister...

On Tuesday Toerisme Vlaanderen (Flanders Tourism) announced the winners of its 2014 Toerisme Vlaanderen awards. Notable winners included the Ghent Design Museum and the Botel cargo ship in Ophoven, Limburg province. Each year Toerisme Vlaanderen seeks out inspiring tourism projects, products and...

Experts from the universities of Brussels, Leuven, Ghent and Antwerp have written to the ministers of public health and science and innovation to demand more support for research on chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), which they say is still an underestimated and little-studied disorder. According to...

If you’ve moved to Belgium to work for a European or international organisation, such as the European Commission, Nato, or a non-governmental organisation (NGO), then you’ve got a choice to make — will you be Belgian or will you be “special”? Of course, this question is in reference to the type of...

Name: François Lafontaine Nationality: Belgian Age: 40 Location: Brussels Sector: Cafe The World Economic Forum recently reported that Belgians are less interested in entrepreneurship these days. François Lafontaine is certainly not among this crowd. Although you probably won’t recognise his name,...

Belgian politicians and royalty travelled to Auschwitz, in the south of Poland, yesterday to attend the ceremony held on the site of the Nazi concentration camp where more than one million people died during World War Two. In 2005, 27 January was designated by the United Nations as International...

Belgium’s largest entirely passive office building was inaugurated on Tuesday on the site of Tour & Taxis in Brussels. Fittingly nicknamed “the toaster” because of its unusual shape, the building is the new headquarters of Leefmilieu Brussel, the region’s environmental agency. The building is...

February 1 will see a number of changes in Belgium. They include: Beer The price of several beers brewed by Alken-Maes and InBev will go up on 1 February. Alken-Maes says its price increases will depend on the product and that it will be up to café owners and supermarkets to decide whether to pass...

Brussels mobility minister Pascal Smet wants cycling in Brussels to go up another gear and has doubled the budget for the construction of cycle paths from €6 to €12 million for 2015. The move comes in the wake of new figures which show that cycling is on the increase in Brussels. According to road...

Westvleteren 12 is no longer the best beer in the world, according to RateBeer, an international beer website. Westvleteren 12 has topped RateBeer’s list of the 100 best beers in the world for two years running but this time had to settle for second place. First place for 2015 went to the American...