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Teacher education increasingly popular

A growing number of college students is signing up for teacher education, reports Flemish public broadcaster VRT. The number of registrations has gone up significantly compared to last year. Some schools saw the number of enrolments, especially for a Bachelor in primary education, rise by 20...

Cohabitation continues to rise in Belgium

This year there are more people living together than are officially married. The first half of this year showed 32,510 Belgians register with the municipality as living together legally, while only 24,372 registered as married. It is the first time in Belgium that more people choose cohabitation...

Antwerp hosts party for the Facebook elite

Belgium's first-ever "klout" party takes place tonight in Antwerp and features free bubbles, lobster and maybe a cigar. That is, if your 'value' on social media like Twitter and Facebook is high enough. So-called klout parties have been popular for a while now in the US, and now Belgium has its own...

Mobile internet improving in Belgium

The quality of mobile internet service has improved significantly in Belgium in the past few years, according to consumer organisation Test-Achats. Proximus continues to offer the best quality, while Base recently surpassed Mobistar. Overall network coverage for mobile internet has also improved,...

Volle Brol

Submitted by Robyn Boyle on Mon, 08/26/2013 - 15:37

Until late in the afternoon, groups of tourists mix with locals at café Volle Brol, located along the cobblestones of the Place du Jeu de Balle in the Marolles area of Brussels. Place du Jeu de Balle is the scene of the well-known daily flea market in this popular down-to-earth neighbourhood. The name of the café itself is a wink to the antique trinkets and vintage curiosities that are sold on the market, brol meaning “junk”.

MR Chairman calls for €5 billion tax cut

Chairman of the francophone liberal party MR, Charles Michel, is advocating a tax reform in 2014 that would cut taxes by €5 billion and generate up to 100,000 jobs. Michel's aim is to reduce the corporate income tax for SMEs (small and medium-sized enterprises) from 33.9 percent to 23 percent...

Belgian houses showing their age

More than half (53 percent) of the houses in Belgium are older than 52 years, and more than half of the apartment buildings (52 percent) are older than 43 years, according to figures from the Finance Ministry, writes French-language daily Le Soir . The figures also show that more than one in five (...

Walloon village welcomes actor Depardieu

Celebrated French actor Gerard Depardieu has been named honorary citizen of the tiny village of Néchin (pop. 2,200) in western Belgium near the French border, where he bought a villa earlier this year. Depardieu's official housewarming took place this past weekend with some 200 guests from Néchin...

Top summer at coast but still complaints

Despite the beautiful weather and crowds of tourists this summer, the season has been surprisingly slow for the restaurant and hotel industry. This year tourists are spending significantly less, according to a survey by Unizo, the organisation that represents the self-employed. Restaurant owners...

Meet the new US ambassador to Belgium

Denise Bauer, the new ambassador of the United States to Belgium, arrived in the country over the weekend. She follows up former ambassador Howard Gutman, who had come to the end of his mandate. Bauer is from California and was a fundraiser for the presidential campaigns of U.S. President Barack...

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