As Belgium prepares to welcome a new king to the throne, questions will inevitably be asked of Philippe's ability to show the same diplomatic skills as his father in the minefield that is Belgian politics. In 2010 and 2011 the country infamously went 541 days without a government, and Albert's...

Nearly half of Belgian festivals do not respect the ban on the sale of alcohol to young people under the age of sixteen or eighteen, an initial inspection conducted by the federal public service for health indicates, De Standaard and Het Nieuwsblad report today. Violations were observed in five out...

The federal police’s Fugitive Active & Asset Search Team (FAST) has arrested an Israeli drug dealer known as ‘Israel’s godfather’. The man was arrested as part of an international operation led by the United States in which the Belgian federal police took part. Other arrests also took place in...

The number of reported cases of ICT crime in Belgium rose to 20,536 in 2012, 37.5% higher than the year before, according to an annual study released by the Belgian federal police department in charge of economic and financial crime (DFJ), reports Telecompaper . The number of recorded cases in 2011...

A brand new lounge concept is set to open in Dubai in September, based on Belgian tapas, reports AMEinfo . Bapas, which will be based at the prestigious H Hotel, is the brainchild of Belgian restaurateurs Lars and Ronny Haesen. The two brothers are no strangers to running successful projects and...

Chinese authorities have visited the offices of Belgian drug maker UCB, as the country looks to widen its investigation into the malpractices by foreign firms in the pharmaceutical sector, following a bribery scandal at British drug maker GlaxoSmithKline, writes the International Business Times’...

Sunshine! Proper summer temperatures! And, in case you still haven't heard, we’re having a new King & Queen. This Saturday’s Bal National on the flea market - Brussels’ equivalent of a good ole cockney knees-up – will be the last one under the reign of King Albert II, and chances are that many...

The Special Tax Inspectorate (ISI) has dealt with 234 cases of taxpayers appearing in the so-called ‘HSBC file’ sent by the French finance minister to the Belgian authorities in 2010. The inland revenue now wants to reclaim a total of €386.4m from these 234 people, Le Soir report. In 2009, a former...

The number of assaults - both physical and verbal - on the Stib network has dropped sharply in the first half of 2013, Brusselnieuws reports. The number of cases of verbal abuse towards Stib personnel fell by nearly a quarter compared with the first half of 2012, while the number of physical...