Belgium urgently needs to appoint a national diabetes co-ordinator, according to Johan Wens, GP and part-time lecturer at Antwerp University. His opinion was published last Friday, World Diabetes Day, in the medical professional magazine De Artsenkrant . According to De Artsenkrant , diabetes is...

Meyrem Almaci has been elected as the new president of the Flemish party Groen, with 60% of the vote at a party congress in Brussels. Her opponent, Elke Van den Brandt, obtained 40% of the total 761 votes cast. Almaci ( pictured ) succeeds Wouter Van Besien, who announced his resignation in August...

Belgian documentaries are in the spotlight in Le Week-end du doc until Sunday across Brussels and Wallonia. With 135 screenings in more than 80 venues: 42 in Brussels and 41 in Wallonia, the second edition of the event showcases the depth and diversity of francophone documentary films – a too-...

Brussels public transport operator (bus, tram and metro) STIB will not raise its prices in 2015, reports Knack.be. STIB will be largely spared from the planned budget cuts announced by the Brussels government. “Investments can be made to the Brussels public transport network without raising the...

Brussels’ two breweries, Cantillon and Brasserie de la Senne, will not be represented in the new Belgian Beer Temple, expected to open in Brussels in 2018. The Beer Temple will especially focus on the country’s bigger breweries. Cantillon regrets that the Beer Temple will give no attention to...

Shopping and leisure complex Uplace in Machelen, just outside the Brussels Ring Road, has let more than half of its commercial space and is on track to open in 2018, developer Bart Verhaeghe said. The controversial site is still fighting for approval of its environmental permit but hopes to have...

In the first six months of 2014 there were 226 home-jackings in Belgium, double the amount reported in the same period four years ago. Notably, 60% of the home-jackings were committed in Wallonia, reports La Dernière Heure . “Homejackings are systematically prepared in advance,” explains Eddy De...

Art is all around. We decorated the walls of our homes and our offices with reprints and originals. We fill our weekend with exhibitions, films and shows. But there is some art we pass every day that we hardly even notice. On our daily commutes, for example. The 69 metro stations in Brussels are...

Kris Peeters, the Belgian minister for work, economy and consumer affairs, met European Commissioner for work Marianne Thyssen earlier this week to discuss policy priorities for the coming years. Belgium and the European Union are united on the key importance of creating jobs and providing training...

Dating is hard. There are many tomes and works, modern and throughout history, that attest to this distressing truth. Tolstoy knew it; Jane Austen had the measure of many a man. The love of your life doesn’t simply fall into your lap. Work must be put in. And it seems we need help with it, too. So...