From 15 June to 15 September, a team of mounted and maritime police will be conducting security controls along Flemish beaches, announced West Flanders police governor Carl Decaluwé on Tuesday. Last year a pilot project, organized at the request of the provincial governor, took place on West...

The Belgian bakery company Jules Destrooper, famous for its butter waffles, has been taken over by GT&CO, the holding company of the Vandermarliere family best known as a cigar manufacturer. Vandermarliere was previously owner of Gryson, one of the last independent tobacco companies in Belgium...

Spring is in the air and Brussels is alive with circus fever. Don´t worry, not ´matted camels, depressed lions, call animal welfare now´ circus. With the 2013 ban on the use of wild animals, the future of circus in Belgium means circus crafts - anything from aerial acrobatics to juggling to fire...

Three people a day are diagnosed with HIV in Belgium, and many more are HIV carriers who do not know that they are infected. The British company BioSure has therefore launched the world’s first CE marked HIV self-testing kit. Because the test can be taken at home, completely anonymous, BioSure...

Fresh fruits and vegetables are reaching rock bottom prices at supermarkets across Belgium this week, mainly due to increasing competition between low-cost supermarket chains such as Lidl and Colruyt, reports Het Laatste Nieuws . Belgian supermarket chains Delhaize and Colruyt are in a price war...

Almost 9,000 members of the public have joined an initiative launched by a group of 11 prominent Belgians to take legal action to force the federal and regional governments to improve their climate policies. Klimaatzaak (Climate Case) was formed at the end of last year, with the statement that the...

The call for temporary workers picked up again in 2014 after two difficult years, allowing the industry to look forward this year to a return to levels similar to 2007, before the global economic crisis, according to industry federation Federgon. Last year saw an increase of 9% in requests for temp...

Doctors in Belgium made 27,266 urgent house calls in 2014, writes the online medical magazine News4Med based on figures from the National Institute for Health and Disability Insurance (Inami). The figure is a 57% decrease compared to the previous year. The General Practitioners (GPs) name changes...

What do you do and how much do you earn? Last summer, I worked at a temp agency in a student job. I was an administrative assistant and it was my job to support the permanent staff with filing, planning and scheduling, answering phones and emails. I also was allowed to look for suitable candidates...

The number of lawyers in Belgium has almost doubled in the last 25 years, to more than 15 lawyers per 10,000 inhabitants. That's almost twice as many as in the neighbouring countries, says lawyer Jan Dyck in Het Nieuwsblad . Dyck is concerned about the explosion in the number of attorneys in recent...