What do you do for work? I coordinate the campaigns developed by the communications office of Square Melon. That means I make sure that everything goes according to plan. I function as a liaison between the people in the field, the logistics and the commercial employees. So I make sure, for example...

Saint Nicholas sidekick Père Fouettard, known in Dutch as Zwarte Piet (Black Peter) and usually represented by a white person in blackface, is not an illegal form of racial discrimination, according to Belgium’s Interfederal Centre for Equal Opportunities. Père Fouettard is supposed to be a Moorish...

The Belgian police will temporarily stop carrying out the repatriation of asylum seekers to West African countries affected by Ebola. While asylum seekers from those countries continue to receive deportation notices, the police are refusing to enforce them, reports Het Nieuwsblad . A police escort...

As of January 1, 2015, exactly 5,315 people in the Brussels-Capital Region will lose their right to unemployment benefits. "Single women with children, who in the past worked part-time, are the hardest hit," says Zoé Genot, Ecolo fraction leader in the Brussels Parliament. The former government...

A planned tunnel under Place Général Meiser in the Brussels commune of Schaerbeek is not the answer to the traffic problems in the area, according to the urban action group Arau. “It makes no sense to break down the Reyers viaduct, only to build it up again as a tunnel a little further on,” the...

Belgian employers find it increasingly difficult to expand their workforce. The number of new jobs in Belgium has reached its lowest level in a decade, reports De Standaard , based on figures from DynaM, a project that charts the dynamics of the Belgian labour market. The figures, which take into...

The folks at the capital’s tourist office Visitbrussels are always dreaming up novel experiences for visitors. Nowhere have their interventions been more imaginative than in the realm of gastronomy. For, not content to simply point you in the direction of the city’s best restaurants, Visitbrussels...

Brussels Airport today is filled with holiday-goers on their way out of the country before the start of the school holiday next week. However, the airport is bogged down with delays caused by members of the federal police, who are taking twice as long to check passengers, in part to look for young...

Spending cuts imposed by the new federal government could mean a “cultural black-out,” according to Peter De Caluwe, director of De Munt/La Monnaie opera house in Brussels ( pictured ). While cuts threaten the existence of some smaller cultural organisations, the three main federally funded...

Kai-Mook, the baby elephant born in Antwerp Zoo in 2009 to the delight of the entire country, will soon become a big sister – and an aunt – animal park Planckendael announced yesterday. One birth is expected to take place next spring, the other next summer. An elephant gestation lasts between 18...