The outgoing European Council president Herman Van Rompuy will be a guest speaker at the Catholic University of Louvain (UCL) from October 6. In his first duty for UCL, he will lead a conference called ‘L’Europe dans la tempête’. From the second semester, when he will no longer have to fulfil any...

Coming in ninth in the green jersey points classification, 22-year-old cyclist Jasper Stuyven (pictured) was a rare flash of Belgian flair in the Vuelta a España, the Tour of Spain, which ended in Santiago de Compostela on Sunday. On his first-ever grand tour, the former UCI Junior Road Race World...

With €820 per month, Julie Declerck, 24, from Bruges can afford a job she loves. What do you for a living? For the last four months, I’ve been employed by Meubis, a furniture store in Maldegem with an extensive online store. On my business card it says “Service Manager”. I answer clients’ questions...

Belgium is ready to take part in an international coalition against the Islamic State (IS), if it is so called upon, said outgoing prime minister Elio Di Rupo at the official reopening of the Jewish Museum of Belgium in Brussels on Sunday. The museum has been closed since May 24, when a shooting...

US president Barack Obama honoured a bet set by Belgian prime minister Elio Di Rupo during the World Cup in June by sending a couple of half-cases of Samuel Adams beer to the Belgian Embassy in Washington on Friday. Before Belgium took on the US in their World Cup last 16 match, Di Rupo bet Obama "...

Belgium has suffered a decline of nearly 18,000 independently owned shops in the past five years, according to a survey by the union for the self-employed, NSZ, based on figures from the state institute for social insurance for the self-employed. In 2008, the number of independent retailers stood...

If Belgium strictly adheres to the budget trajectory that the European Union is demanding, some 47,000 jobs will go by the wayside by 2017, according to estimates by the Federal Planning Bureau, reports De Standaard and Het Nieuwsblad . The Federal Planning Bureau arrived at this figure in June,...

Flanders’ minister-president, Geert Bourgeois, has warned that strict European Union budgetary rules could make it difficult for governments to carry out vital projects requiring long-term investments. In an interview on Radio 1, Bourgeois ( pictured ) said new EU rules could represent “a serious...