An alleged member of a commando of the Basque separatist organisation ETA was arrested in Belgium yesterday after 33 years on the run, the Spanish interior ministry has announced in a statement. Maria Natividad Jauregui Espina , known as ‘Pepona’, was arrested in Ghent at 18.30 following the issue...

The opening of two new Ikea stores in 2015, in Mons and Hasselt, will generate 350 direct jobs, it was announced yesterday as the annual figures for the Swedish giant’s Belgian operations were released. It will bring to eight the number of Ikea stores in Belgium - and the chain wants "at least 10...

Kidnapping Freddy Heineken, the film about the abduction of the brewing magnate, is about to start shooting in Belgium. The film, directed by Daniel Alfredson, stars Anthony Hopkins, Sam Worthington, Jim Sturgess and Ryan Kwanten, reports The Wrap. The film was adapted from a bestselling book by...

Alison Rose will succeed Jonathan Brenton, who will be transferring to another diplomatic service appointment, the Foreign & Commonwealth Office has announced. Ms Rose will take up her appointment during August 2014. An EU specialist, she has worked for the FCO in Paris, London and Brussels,...

Belgium’s federal government agreed about a minimal stimulus package as part of a 2014 budget deal that relies on an economic recovery to boost tax revenue and meet the deficit goals agreed with the European Commission, writes Bloomberg’s John Martens . The budget assumes fiscal takings will rise...

Francois Englert (pictured left) from Belgium and Peter Higgs, from the UK, have won the Nobel prize in physics for their work on the theory of the Higgs boson. In the 1960s they were among several physicists who proposed a mechanism to explain why the most basic building blocks of the Universe...

Senator Rik Daems wants the benefits granted to the long-term unemployed to be paid out in return for mandatory community service. Any person who has not worked for a year should report one day a week to their town hall to help with simple administrative tasks or with the maintenance of public...

The fight against corruption is inadequate in Belgium, according to a report by Transparency International published today in De Standaard . The NGO ranks Belgium in the worst category with "little or no enforcement" when it comes to the "export of corruption", together with Russia, Chile, Mexico...

Ford is experimenting with two new ground-breaking technologies in Belgium, writes USA Today’s Chris Woodyard : one that allows a car to park itself without a driver inside and another that automatically turns the steering wheel to avoid hitting a pedestrian. While there are no concrete plans to...

Bruges will host the 'European Shale Gas Summit' on January 28 and 29 next year, the European Commission’s Community Research and Development Information Service has announced. The event aims to stimulate discussion among participants en route towards an EU wide regulatory policy on shale gas. This...