Europe faces an unprecedented obesity crisis, which will affect nine out of 10 Belgian women by 2030, according to figures released yesterday by the World Health Organization (WHO) during a conference in Prague. According to doctors at the conference, urgent action is required to combat the rise of...

Theo Francken, federal state secretary for asylum policy, travelled to Rome this week to for talks with his Italian counterpart, Domenico Manzione, on efforts to deal with thousands of African migrants arriving in Italy. Francken promised that Belgium would help Italy to process the migrants but...

The head of military intelligence in Belgium, General Eddy Testelmans, gave out false information about three planned terrorist attacks, the I Committee has concluded in a report. The I Committee oversees intelligence services in Belgium. In an interview with MO* magazine in 2013, Testelmans (...

Nearly 87% of high school students in Belgium have never used cannabis, reports Het Nieuwsblad based on a survey of about 19,000 students from the provinces of East Flanders and Flemish Brabant. Ten years ago, 72% of students reported never having used the drug, reports the Provincial Inter-...

Blue-bike , the bicycle share system of Belgian rail company SNCB, is steadily gaining popularity in Belgium, and especially in Brussels where the blue bikes are increasingly being used, reports brusselnieuws.be. In the capital, the Blue-bikes can be found in the train stations of Brussels North,...

In Belgium, we like our coffee. Consumption averages over seven kilograms a year per person. This love affair with coffee makes for large amount of coffee grounds. A new Brussels business has developed a project that gives this plentiful by-product usually discarded as waste a second life. Two...

Archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels, André-Joseph Léonard, has announced that the closure or desecration of Brussels’ Saint-Catherine Church is out of the question, reports brusselnieuws.be. The announcement cancels out a competition organised by the City of Brussels to come up with ideas for a...

Marks & Spencer (M&S), the beloved British High Street chain famous for pork pies, ready-made chicken tikka masala and comfortable pants, returns to the Brussels shopping scene tomorrow after an absence of 14 years. The new department store is on Toison d’Or in a newly constructed block...

Three non-governmental organisations (NGOs) for the protection of human rights, the CNAPD, Vrede and Ligue des droits de l'Homme, have filed a lawsuit against the deployment of soldiers in three Belgian cities earlier this year. Legally assisted by the Progress Lawyers Network, the three NGOs filed...

Customers of Colruyt can now make mobile payments using a smartphone app in 470 supermarkets across the country, the company has announced. The system uses the SEQR app available for Android, Apple and Windows phones and is already available in all the group’s stores, including Colruyt, OKay, Bio-...