Flanders’ housing minister Freya Van den Bossche has announced new measures aimed at helping renters find affordable accommodation. Based on the first results of the Housing Survey, the government, said Van den Bossche, has to do more to assist people in the rental sector. As a first step, a new...

The Belgian labour market is based on “ethnostratification”, according to the European Network Against Racism (ENAR), meaning that racial and ethnic origin play a major role in determining a person’s employment prospects. The network found Belgium to be a source of “continuing inequality and an...

In a symbolic action to call attention to the gender pay gap, a group of activists gathered in Brussels’ North Station this morning. The socialist trade union ABVV and women’s movement Zij-Kant led the demonstration, which invited passers-by to “follow” a career path fraught with obstacles and...

Belgium’s largest bank, BNP Paribas Fortis, at the end of last year rewrote its banking terms and conditions that govern the relationship with its customers. Several articles referring to the use and transmission of customers’ personal data were changed in favour of the bank's trading partners,...

The song “Ta Fête” by Belgian singer-songwriter Stromae is the official anthem of the Red Devils, Belgium’s national football team, during this summer’s World Cup tournament in Brazil. In typical Stromae fashion, the artist is using a teaser clip to build up suspense before the official release of...

Remi Vermeiren, a former executive at KBC bank and one of the founders of the Warandemanifest, which, nine years ago, advocated the independence of Flanders from Belgium, has published a book on the subject. Belgie: De onmogelijke opdracht (Belgium: Mission Impossible) sets out the essential steps...

Two officers of the railway police were arrested on Friday and held in detention over the weekend on suspicion of mistreating a homeless man. The two officers work from South Station in Brussels, and the allegations come soon after another group of officers from the same post were sentenced for...

Belgacom is cutting the pay of directors and top executives, in line with the salary of new CEO Dominique Leroy, said the company’s chair of the board, Stefaan De Clerck, at the weekend. In an interview with De Tijd and L’Echo , De Clerck said that “everyone has to make sacrifices and not only the...

As Saint Patrick's Day celebrations kick off the world round today, revellers in Brussels have already been at it since yesterday. In the Cinquantenaire park on Sunday there was a big Irish celebration and a parade. The many Irish pubs across Brussels were overfull, and the festivities continue...