Environmental organisation Leefmilieu Brussel is urging residents to do some animal spotting in the capital, and to take photos of the wildlife with their smartphone. The photos can then be easily transferred to the organisation via a mobile app. In this way, the Brussels-Capital Region hopes to...

The Royal Belgian Gymnastics Federation was established 150 years ago, making it the oldest sports federation in Belgium. The Federation is celebrating the milestone with special events throughout the year, reports Het Nieuwsblad . The association has nearly 130,000 members active in artistic or...

A delegation of seven MPs visited the Gaza strip on a fact-finding mission this week. The delegation was made up of five Flemish MPs from the federal parliament and three from the Flemish parliament, representing all Flanders’ political parties, apart from the far-right Vlaams Belang. The Gaza...

Brussels public transport authority MIVB is increasing the frequency of buses on 40 lines beginning on 23 February. The changes come to peak and off-peak services as well as weekends. During peak hours, there will be more frequent service on lines 20, 28, 34 and 78. In off-peak hours the changes...

In 10 years' time, there will be no more plots of land left for housing development in Flanders, requiring new - and even existing - houses to become smaller, taller and more expensive, reports Het Nieuwsblad . This trend has already started, according to the newspaper, with homes shrinking by...

Former Belgian cyclist Claude Criquielion, world champion and winner of multiple classics, has died at the age of 58. Criquielion had been in a coma since suffering a stroke and brain haemorrhage on Sunday night and passed away on Monday morning. Criquielion, known as ‘Le Crique’, won the Barcelona...

After insisting for years that the Belgian housing market is exaggeratedly overvalued, the National Bank now maintains that the market is in fact in balance, reports De Standaard . In 2012, Belgium’s National Bank announced that Belgian houses were overvalued by a whopping 15%. That is no longer...

For those of you who´ve heard that ballad from Disney blockbuster Frozen once too often, Anima, the Brussels Animation Film Festival is back to remind you that animation is not just for children or fans of cheesy pop. Now an institution on the Brussels festival calendar, Anima celebrates its 34th...

The City of Brussels on Monday opened a general housing office where residents can go to learn their rights as tenants or landlords, and to ask questions about living in the city, reports brusselnieuws.be. The Property Management Agency is centrally located at 41 Place de Brouckère. The general...

Prime minister Charles Michel has made a plea to Belgian Jews to stay in the country rather than migrate to Israel. Speaking on Radio 1, he said that security measures to protect the Jewish community would remain in place even if the national terrorism threat level, which remains at three, was...