The new Belgian government is to cancel an agreement to rent cells in a Dutch prison in Tilburg to house Belgian criminals. The agreement will not be renewed when it ends in two years’ time, the cabinet said in a statement. The government was forced in 2010 to rent unused prison cells in Tilburg’s...

ULB students and local residents of Ixelles/Elsene on Wednesday morning chained themselves to trees on the university campus, reports Brusselnieuws.be. A contractor began felling the trees on Tuesday to prepare the lot for the controversial real estate project, Universalis Park. The real estate...

King Albert and Queen Paola have returned to Belgium for the first time in four months. The royal pair appeared at Saint-Luc University Hospital in Brussels to attend a lecture by Professor Benoît Lengelé, a specialist in microsurgery, reconstructive and plastic surgery. Lengelé performed surgery...

Belgian doctors are increasingly wary of being involved in a law suit, leading one in seven doctors to refuse to see a patient when there is a high risk of complications, according to De Morgen based on a study by the University of Hasselt. The Medical Accidents Fund (FMO), created in 2010, allows...

Last year, mathematicians worldwide were stunned – as were many non-mathematicians – when the US-based Breakthrough Prize Foundation announced that it would award five prizes of $3 million each to honour the world’s best mathematicians and support their endeavours. The laureates will be presented...

About 50 organisations and companies in Belgium have joined together to form the new Cyber Security Coalition. The aim of the partnership is to fight against the growing problem of cybercrime across the country. Computer crime costs the Belgian economy about €3.5 billion euros annually, or more...

Education minister Hilde Crevits has announced the precise rises in the enrolment fees for higher education. The raise has been the subject of much debate, but the exact amount was not known until now. For students without a scholarship, the enrolment will increase by almost €270, from €620 to €890...

Five design teams competing for the contract to design a new headquarters for the Flemish public broadcaster VRT have been shortlisted by the office of the Flemish official architect. The five are: a temporary consortium of Flemish architects evr, Doorzon, Denis Dujardin and vylder vinck taillieu;...

A French fighter jet intercepted a Brussels Airlines flight after contact with the cockpit was suddenly broken. The incident was in June, but has only now become known. The Airbus A319 Brussels Airlines flight was bringing holiday-goers from Lanzarote to Brussels Airport in late June. While the...

Employees who show up to work under the influence of alcohol should be fired after three times, says Karel Van Eetvelt, CEO of the Belgian employers' organisation Unizo. According to a study by Unizo, one in three employers in Belgium has dealt with alcohol abuse in the workplace in the past 5...