Belgium’s national football team has climbed from third to second place in the new Fifa rankings, Belgium’s highest place since the launch of the world ranking in 1992. Coach Marc Wilmots’ Red Devils have not competed in a match since the publication of the previous rankings on 7 May, but their...

Last year was a difficult one for supermarket chain Delhaize because of unavoidable restructuring, and the coming six months look like being “very difficult” as well, the company’s CEO, Frans Muller, warned in a speech this week at an event hosted by business magazine Trends . Delhaize announced...

Of the 211 bird species in Belgium, 12 are endangered on a European scale, according to the first European Red List of Birds , published this week by BirdLife International, the world's largest nature conservation partnership. The list, which acts as a tool for assessing the extinction risk of...

Belgium’s interior minister Jan Jambon has opened a discussion at the European level to address problems related to criminal motorcycle gangs. In a meeting last week with the Belgian mayors of several border municipalities, Jambon and the mayors talked to European Union law enforcement agency...

Back for its fifth year, this Saturday, 6 June, Brussels’ DIY Day returns to the MicroMarché. DIY Day celebrates all that is old, reused and recycled with workshops, music, exhibitions and performances in Belgium’s most hands-on festival. Taking place in and around the MicroMarché in the Ste...

Technology giant Microsoft has chosen Brussels as the location of its first Transparency Center outside of the United States. The centre allows governments secure access to the source code of all Microsoft products and services, as well as providing information on cyber safety and online risk...

Alison Van Uytvanck’s brave surge in the French Open finally ended yesterday when the Belgian tennis pro lost 6-4 7-5 to Switzerland’s Timea Bacsinszky in the quarter-finals at Roland Garros. Neither woman had ever been beyond the second round at Roland Garros, but it was 23 seeded Bacsinszky...

Japan’s foreign ministry on Tuesday appointed former European council president Herman Van Rompuy "ambassador of the haiku", placing the Belgian politician in charge of the promotion of the classic Japanese poem as part of the cultural exchange between Japan and the European Union. Van Rompuy is...

More than half a million ecocheques go unused in Belgium every year, according to a parliamentary question from CD&V’s Stefaan Vercamer to economy, employment and consumer affairs minister Kris Peeters. Vercamer advocates the introduction of a single electronic card for both meal- and...

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) expects Belgium’s economy to grow by 1.3% this year and by as much as 1.8% in 2016. OECD attributes the gradual economic growth to rising exports and investments. Domestic demand, meanwhile, remains weak due to widespread budget cuts...