Flanders’ minister-president Geert Bourgeois is in Ypres today for the commemoration of an event that turned the course of the First World War exactly 100 years ago: the first large-scale poison gas attack. The attack took place on 22 April 1915, with about 170 tonnes of chlorine gas sent drifting...

Two people have been injured in another acid attack in Antwerp. The victims were attacked by a man in his forties in the district of Hoboken ( pictured ) on Sunday morning. Police were able to identify and arrest the man. The attack took place sometime between 3.00 and 5.00. The two victims, men...

The Brussels court on Tuesday arrested the managers of two Brussels jewellery shops on suspicion of tax evasion worth several million euros. The jewellers are accused of offering embassies false invoices for the purchase of watches and jewellery in order to unlawfully avoid paying value-added tax (...

You don’t often meet your interview subject for the first time on a plane, but this is the case with Irishwoman Jacqueline Lynch. Having met by chance on a flight from Dublin the week previously, and heard each other’s life stories on the journey back to Belgium, there’s almost no need for a second...

Telenet, the Mechelen-based internet and cable TV provider, has taken over mobile phone operator Base from Dutch owner KPN for €1.33 billion. The acquisition gives Telenet its own mobile network for the first time. The deal commits Telenet to invest €240 million on top of the sale price in the...

Goodbye European Voice, hello Politico. The Washington-based political news site Politico has taken over European Voice, with the launch of a new editorial office in Brussels this week. The editorial team of Politico.eu has bold plans to dive headfirst into European politics and “incite a...

Brussels mobility minister Pascal Smet and mayor Yvan Mayeur on Monday discussed plans for more car parks on the outskirts of the capital. The intention is to encourage commuters and visitors to leave their cars there and take public transport or bicycles into the city centre, reports brusselnieuws...

Belgium’s minister of development co-operation, Alexander De Croo, has pledged €36 million to the international organisation Global Partnership for Education. De Croo, who is currently in Washington, confirmed the funding during a speech last weekend at the US capital’s National Mall to mark Global...

Digital agenda minister Alexander De Croo (pictured) yesterday presented a plan to make Belgium one of the world’s most digitally advanced countries. The minister wants to see Belgium join Europe’s top three digital leaders, with the creation of 1,000 startup companies and 50,000 jobs within the...

Professor Willem Elias of the Free University of Brussels (VUB) has announced that he is voluntarily giving up his position as dean of the faculty of psychology and education sciences. He was widely criticised for a Facebook post he made after the suicide of Flemish politician Steve Stevaert...