According to Belgium’s Foundation Against Cancer, 15% of lung cancer cases in Belgium – or 1,050 cases annually – are caused by fine particles in the air. The foundation’s announcement came with a warning: Quality of air inside people’s homes is often worse than outside. The foundation cites...

A growing confidence in the resilience of Belgium’s economy has led to a sharp increase in the number of job vacancies in the first quarter of 2015, reports Jobat. According to the most recent Robert Walters European Job Index, the total number of job advertisements this year has already increased...

According to activists trying to save the town of Doel, scheduled to disappear in the left bank expansion of the port of Antwerp, development plans will have to be put on hold following a negative opinion from the Council of State. According to the group Doel 2020, the auditor of the Council of...

What do you do for work? I lecture in engineering at Artesis College in the real estate training programme for brokers and surveyors. I’m a civil engineer and architect by education. I’ve been teaching for six years and I really love it. What’s your salary and what do you think about it? I’m...

Brussels’ Ancienne Belgique (AB) is preparing for a royal visit, with Belgium’s King Philippe and Queen Mathilde expected to attend tonight’s concerts featuring two Belgian bands. "The king has already listened to their CDs," AB general manager Dirk De Clippeleir told Radio 1, according to VRT news...

Unions representing rail staff are reported to be considering new strike action after comments made at the weekend by Jo Cornu, CEO of the rail authority SNCB. A study ordered by the SNCB into productivity compares its staff with other major rail authorities in France, the Netherlands and...

Belgian supermarket chain Delhaize is involved in talks “at the highest level” with Ahold, the company behind Dutch chain Albert Heijn, regarding a possible merger, according to financial daily De Tijd . The talks are said to be in a preliminary phase and any agreement is a long way off. A merger...

Four years ago, only one in five professors at Belgian universities was a woman, but women currently represent one in four professors, according to a calculation by Ghent student magazine Schamper based on the most recent personnel statistics from the Flemish Interuniversity Council (VLIR), De...

The New Flemish Alliance party (N-VA) and the Christian-Democratic party (CD&V) are calling for the establishment of a central database to manage the data from egg and sperm donors and for the abolishment of the donors’ right to anonymity. Abolishing anonymity would allow donor children to...

Could we meet in a little diner close to the Bourse in Brussels, Mario Barrantes Espinoza asks. His class has just finished and he’s on his way to a show at Bozar. “That’s one of the great things about Brussels,” he says. “There’s always something inspiring to do at night.” Espinoza is 23 and from...