For the second time in the past month, they walked for days to protest their case. Hundreds of Afghan asylum seekers accompanied by their supporters to the streets, walking from 70km from Brussels to Ghent. Beginning their march on January 11, the protesters once again hoped their actions would put...

The 2014 Brussels European Motor Show for cars and motorcycles officially kicked off last night as King Philippe opened the event for its 92nd edition. The doors will open to the public beginning tomorrow at 10 am and will continue until the 26th of January at the Brussels Exposition. Despite being...

Movies are a form of escapism for many movie-goers, and for expats living in Belgium, seeing actors from back home is of real importance. That is why sitting through a French-dubbed version of George Clooney or Keira Knightley in a Brussels cinema can be teeth-grinding. However, the situation is...

Place Jourdan in the capital’s EU quarter could be turned into a car-free square by 2016, according to Vincent De Wolf, the mayor of the Etterbeek commune. Wolf has launched a public inquiry to discuss his administration’s proposals for transforming the popular square. If it gets planning approval...

AB InBev, the largest brewing concern in the world, has escaped its share of the €106 million fine handed down to the members of a cartel of brewers for unfair competition. The Leuven-based brewer was spared because it agreed to provide evidence against the other partners in the price-fixing scheme...

If there is one question everyone asks during their lifetime, it may be 'is it safe to eat after the 'best before date'?' From milk, to cheese, meats and fish, is the dreaded deadline for consumption written in stone, or is it possible to eat foods after they've expired? Universities in Belgium and...

Last year, police speed zone checks in Ixelles nabbed 35,485 drivers exceeding the limits. The police also confiscated 499 licenses, of which 494 were taken for speeding infractions. Of the 433,579 motorists checked by mobile radar in 2013, nearly 20 thousand were caught for speeding. Just last...

Belgian police have ramped up efforts to curb the practice of human trafficking through the country en-route to the UK. On Monday night the prosecutor’s office set an operation in motion along the Brussels Ostend motorway, targeting parking lots that are frequently used to load undocumented...

Two new studies released by Oxford University Press suggest that Belgium’s political mayhem may have actually helped the country weather the global economic crisis. “Changing inequalities & societal impacts in rich countries” and “Changing inequalities in rich countries, analytical and...