Alexander De Croo, federal minister for telecommunications and the post, is tabling a proposal today for the government to sell off its stakes in both postal service Bpost and the telecoms operator Proximus. Under current legislation, the Belgian government is required to retain a 50% share in each...

Belgian footballer Youri Tielemans this week signed a contract for five seasons with RSC Anderlecht in the Belgian pro league. The 18-year-old midfielder has grown in stature as a strong player for the Purple and White since breaking into the Anderlecht team last season and winning the young player...

A new diagnostic blood test to detect the early signs of osteoarthritis will become available by the end of this year in Belgium, according to an announcement made this week by University of Liège professor Yves Henrotin during the international conference of the Osteoarthritis Research Society...

The South American grain crop quinoa, cultivated last year for the first time on a limited scale in Wallonia, will this year grow on Flemish soil as well, reports Knack.be. The additional 20 hectares in Flanders bring the total area set aside for quinoa cultivation in Belgium up to 110 hectares,...

Many countries are taking a closer look at gluten, a protein found in certain grains, including wheat, barley and rye, ubiquitous in Western diets. In the US and the UK, the trend to eat less gluten has taken hold, with gluten-free or “GF” foods marked on every menu. Belgium, like much of Europe,...

Europe faces an unprecedented obesity crisis, which will affect nine out of 10 Belgian women by 2030, according to figures released yesterday by the World Health Organization (WHO) during a conference in Prague. According to doctors at the conference, urgent action is required to combat the rise of...

Theo Francken, federal state secretary for asylum policy, travelled to Rome this week to for talks with his Italian counterpart, Domenico Manzione, on efforts to deal with thousands of African migrants arriving in Italy. Francken promised that Belgium would help Italy to process the migrants but...

The head of military intelligence in Belgium, General Eddy Testelmans, gave out false information about three planned terrorist attacks, the I Committee has concluded in a report. The I Committee oversees intelligence services in Belgium. In an interview with MO* magazine in 2013, Testelmans (...

Nearly 87% of high school students in Belgium have never used cannabis, reports Het Nieuwsblad based on a survey of about 19,000 students from the provinces of East Flanders and Flemish Brabant. Ten years ago, 72% of students reported never having used the drug, reports the Provincial Inter-...

Blue-bike , the bicycle share system of Belgian rail company SNCB, is steadily gaining popularity in Belgium, and especially in Brussels where the blue bikes are increasingly being used, reports brusselnieuws.be. In the capital, the Blue-bikes can be found in the train stations of Brussels North,...