Imagine if every year people in Belgium were asked to vote in a referendum to decide how many refugees from war-torn countries like Syria would be accepted into the country. How many would you vote for? How many thousands would you be willing to accept? Would you, given the choice, perhaps be...

The pedestrian zone in the centre of Brussels is being cleared of its summer street furniture. This will make it easier for work to take place over the winter to create the permanent pedestrian zone that is expected to open in the spring of 2016. According to a statement from the City of Brussels,...

The vast majority of penalties for antisocial behaviour handed out by Brussels communes concern parking, according to a report published on Monday. The verbal warnings and fines can also be applied to other sorts of public nuisance, such as littering, urinating in public, insulting behaviour,...

About one in 450 babies in Belgium is born with so-called familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) annually, according to two professors who have launched a campaign to draw attention to the issue. FH is a genetic disorder characterised by high cholesterol levels. Only about 4% of Belgian residents with...

The franchise holder for the Burger King brand in France has announced its intention to take over Quick, the Belgian hamburger restaurant chain. According to a statement issued on Monday, Groupe Bertrand, which holds the rights to Burger King in France, is in talks with the French investment group...

Kinepolis cinema multiplex in Brussels had to be evacuated over the weekend when it was overrun by cinemagoers hoping to take advantage of a cheap ticket offer. When around 4,000 people turned up on Saturday afternoon, the last day of the BNP Paribas Fortis Film Days promotion, the management...

Between 15,000 and 23,000 people marched through Brussels on Sunday afternoon to show their support for more refugees being allowed into Belgium. There were also calls for conditions to be improved in the country's migrant reception centres, and for steps to be taken against racism and xenophobia...

The future of a planned new national football stadium has been thrown into doubt, after Brussels football club Anderlecht pulled out of a deal in which they would rent the stadium, making it available for the matches of the Red Devils national side. The stadium would replace the existing King...

The University of Leuven (KU Leuven) is considered the second most innovative European university, behind Imperial College London, in a ranking by press agency Reuters. KU Leuven ranked 16th worldwide. Reuters made the ranking on the basis of various aspects: the number of patent requests submitted...

The number of pharmacies in Belgium is declining steadily according to figures from the Association pharmaceutique belge (APB), the national federation of independent pharmacies. Numbers peaked in 1999, with 5,277 pharmacies across the country, but have been declining ever since. A moratorium on...