Tickets to this summer’s edition of the sold-out music festival Tomorrowland are showing up for sale on various Belgian websites with extortionate prices of up to €550 per ticket. "That's against the terms of use," spokesperson Debby Wilmsen told De Morgen, "so we have a team working to track down...

According to experts from three Belgian universities, palliative care should be provided earlier on in a patient’s disease process. Professors from the universities of Brussels (VUB), Leuven and Ghent presented the advice to policymakers at a congress last week at KVS in Brussels. “In comparison...

Any time you move to a new country there will be things about your new home that needle you as you struggle to understand the whys and hows of the way things work. And Belgium is certainly no different — why do the metros stop at midnight? Do I really have to sign a three-, six- or NINE-year lease...

Exploring society’s obsession with competition in business and culture is media executive Margaret Herffernan at Full Circle ’s next talking heads dinner on Wednesday. Heffernan presents alternatives in Competition Isn’t Everything, at a location to be announced a couple of days before the event...

The Cabinet is due to decide this morning whether to send a small reconnaissance mission to Baghdad, Iraq, to prepare for the deployment of 50 Belgian soldiers on the ground in the Iraqi capital. It would be the first time the Belgian army has been active in Iraq. They would be expected to assist...

A French lifeboat recovered two bodies from the English Channel off the coast of Boulogne-sur-Mer, France, on Thursday afternoon, the Dutch coastguard reported. The bodies are claimed to be that of a 64-year-old Belgian and a 45-year-old Dutchman, both crew members aboard the missing Z85 Morgenster...

It’s one of the things that most perplexes foreigners when they settle in Belgium. But the “priority from the right” rule, which gives priority to cars coming from the right unless there are signs or road markings indicating otherwise, could soon be a thing of the past, according to the Belgian...

A network of 11 people suspected of human trafficking were arrested in a large-scale police action earlier this week involving forces from across the country, the Leuven prosecutor’s office has announced. The group is thought to have taken part in a plan to transport migrants illegally to the UK...

Police are preparing to implement speed checks on electric bikes, according to the Minister of the Interior Jan Jambon. The police are keen to put an end to “dangerous situations” arising from the use of electric bikes. The Federal Public Service Economy recently noted that several electric bikes...

Ever since Lonely Planet discovered the capital of East Flanders in 2009, there’s no travel guide that hasn’t added Ghent to its list of favourites. The city’s international reputation might soon receive an additional boost, but this time not for its merits as a travel destination. Ghent’s Daniël...