Brussels mobility minister Pascal Smet (SP.A) has approved a grant of €38,500 to encourage car-sharing in Brussels. The grant will go to car-sharing organisation Autopia, the first step in a series of initiatives to encourage the practice, reports brusselnieuws.be Car-sharing is a growing market in...

Minister Didier Reynders (pictured), whose portfolio includes federal cultural institutions, has said he will not interfere with the artistic choices of the institutions, including La Monnaie. "They have reduced their number of staff and removed dance. That is their choice," he said in De Morgen...

Belgium’s foreign affairs department has announced it will shut down 18 embassies and consulates around the world in a round of heavy budget cuts, Belgian media report. To help meet the government-imposed savings of €30 million in the coming years, the department plans to do away with as many as 18...

Netlog, the Ghent-based social network that was at one point more popular with young people in Belgium than Facebook, is no longer operating. Owners Massive Media have pulled the site, and users are now directed to one of its other properties, Twoo.com. Netlog was first launched as Redbox, an early...

Amid weeks of protests, strikes and rebellion throughout the country, largely in response to the Michel I government’s unpopular austerity measures, here’s a look at the three greatest protests in Belgium’s long, proud history of revolt. Belgian revolution – 1830-1831 Perhaps the ultimate Belgian...

The Brussels-Capital Region has unveiled its new flag and logo. Gone is the stylised iris of gold on a blue background, in comes a golden heart blooming amid two blue petals. This week the Territorial Development committee of the Brussels Parliament approved a motion to change the flag to sport the...

In Belgium’s federal elections on May 25, half of the Brussels population voted blank or invalid, was not eligible to vote, or simply chose not to, according to research by geographer Filip De Maesschalck, which appeared in the political magazine Sampol . De Standaard wrote about the Sampol piece...

Only one in 20 Belgians are willing to work until the new proposed retirement age of 67. Willingness to work longer is linked to wage and flexible working conditions, according to a study by Trendhuis in which 4,000 Belgians took part. The study was commissioned by the European Social Fund Agency (...

Flemish nationalist party N-VA will receive €12.3 million annually up until the next election, making it the party in Belgium with the highest public funding. The grant, which is calculated according to the number of MPs elected to the federal and regional parliaments, represents the largest figure...

The incidence of cot death, or Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), in Belgium is five times less than 20 years ago, according to data on the leading causes of death published by the Agency for Care and Health. The statistics show that SIDS was the cause of death of 19 babies in 2012. "It will...