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...

Contemporary dance legend Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker is receiving the Cross of Honour for Science and Arts in Vienna today, which will be given to her by the Austrian minister for arts and culture, Josef Ostermayer. De Keersmaeker ( pictured ) and the Rosas dance company have a long-running...

Type 2 diabetes, often referred to as adult-onset diabetes, is on the rise in Belgium, especially among people in their 20s and 30s, an increase that goes hand in hand with the obesity epidemic, reports De Standaard . Belgium has not escaped the global rise in cases of type 2 diabetes, one of the...

Belgian auto insurance companies last year refused service to 29,340 drivers because they were considered too risky or had caused too many accidents, a record high, according to the Mediahuis newspapers. The phenomenon is confirmed by the Pricing Agency, an insurance plan launched by the Belgian...