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Start Your Own Business in Belgium seminar: where expat entrepreneurship meets local knowledge

Starting your own business can be an ambitious and sometimes frightening venture. Add the fact that you’d like to start your business in a foreign country and the project gets downright risky. Still, in Belgium more expats are making the leap of entrepreneurial faith than ever. “I have noticed an...

Anderlecht take home 33rd Belgian football league title

Anderlecht won their third consecutive Belgian football league title yesterday – their 33rd overall – with a 3-1 win over Lokeren on the final day of the season. The victory gave the Brussels club a two-point edge over runners-up Standard Liège, with third-placed Club Brugge a further point behind...

Brussels police arrest man with possible connection to Brabant Killers

Police in Brussels have arrested a man thought to be a member of the notorious Brabant Killers, who carried out a wave of murderous attacks in Belgium in the 1980s. The man denies any involvement. The Brabant Killers, also known as the Nivelles Gang, were responsible for a series of violent crimes...

Criminal offenses in Belgium down by 5.5%

The crime rate in Belgium declined significantly in the past year, writes Het Laatste Nieuws , based on figures from the federal police. Belgium scores better in 2013 than in 2012, when more than 1 million crimes were registered, on par with the average of the last decade. Last year the number...

Doctors recommend medical screening for 20km of Brussels

Medical screening of each participant before a mass sporting event should be mandatory, according to Pedro Brugada, heart specialist at UZ Brussel, and sports doctor Chris Goossens, following Sunday’s death by heart failure of one of the runners of the 20km of Brussels. "People overestimate...

Cost of groceries in Belgium expected to go down

Grocery shopping in Belgium is about to become more affordable, writes La Libre Belgique based on a study by market research agency Nielsen. Currently, the price of food products in Belgium is on average 7 to 14% higher than in neighbouring countries, a difference that increased sharply between...

Belgium loses “its greatest prime minister ever”

The former Belgian prime minister Jean-Luc Dehaene died yesterday at the age of 73. A Flemish Christian-Democrat with roots in Bruges, Dehaene died following a fall in France, where he was on holiday with his wife. Dehaene, who earned a variety of nicknames over the years, such as “the Flemish...

Fatal accident on E17, truck driver arrested

A truck driver who caused an accident yesterday on the E17 motorway at Zwijnaarde, near Ghent, has been taken into custody. The man is reported to be a 39-year-old Romanian national. Two people, a Dutch couple in their 50s, died in the accident. The accident took place on the Antwerp-bound...

Brussels forbids use of police dogs and horses in front line

Police officers in Brussels are no longer allowed to take patrol dogs or horses with them to the front line at riots or demonstrations, due to too many incidents, according to Interior Minister Joëlle Milquet. De Standaard and Het Nieuwsblad report that the use of police dogs and horses in Brussels...

Cyclists allowed to run a red light in Brussels

The Brussels-Capital Region installed 100 new signs that make it possible for cyclists to ride through a red light in situations where that is not a danger, announced Brigitte Grouwels, Brussels Minister of Public Works and Transport, and Bruno De Lille, State Secretary for Mobility. There are two...

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