Antwerp’s major shopping street, the Meir, will soon form the backdrop for Belgium’s longest outdoor catwalk. On Sunday, 3 May, from 14.00 to 17.00, the Meir shops will host the first-time event with the support of the City of Antwerp. The fashion show will give brands like Rivers Woods, Replay,...

Art robberies always make for good adventures, whether it’s The Maltese Falcon or Indiana Jones , so it’s exciting to imagine what is going on behind the walls of the Van Buuren Museum in Brussels, where the denouement of a story that began nearly two years ago is being played out. At the end of a...

Can you judge a city by its burgers? If you’re a vegetarian in Brussels, you can. Every year, Brussels gets friendlier and friendlier to vegetarians, and one landmark signfying that times are a-changing for the herbivores among us is the notable improvement in the quantity and quality of the city’s...

On 29 June, the pedestrian zone in the centre of Brussels will be extended from 35 to 50 hectares, reports De Morgen . There are already a number of streets around the Grand Place that are designated car-free zones, and this summer the busy Place de la Bourse and Avenue Anspach ( pictured ) will...

Union strike actions have brought public transportation to a crawl today in Belgium, with very few trains, metros, trams and buses operating across the country. The socialist trade union for public sector workers, ACOD, called for the general strike as a form of protest against the austerity...

Flanders’ minister-president Geert Bourgeois is in Ypres today for the commemoration of an event that turned the course of the First World War exactly 100 years ago: the first large-scale poison gas attack. The attack took place on 22 April 1915, with about 170 tonnes of chlorine gas sent drifting...

Two people have been injured in another acid attack in Antwerp. The victims were attacked by a man in his forties in the district of Hoboken ( pictured ) on Sunday morning. Police were able to identify and arrest the man. The attack took place sometime between 3.00 and 5.00. The two victims, men...

The Brussels court on Tuesday arrested the managers of two Brussels jewellery shops on suspicion of tax evasion worth several million euros. The jewellers are accused of offering embassies false invoices for the purchase of watches and jewellery in order to unlawfully avoid paying value-added tax (...

You don’t often meet your interview subject for the first time on a plane, but this is the case with Irishwoman Jacqueline Lynch. Having met by chance on a flight from Dublin the week previously, and heard each other’s life stories on the journey back to Belgium, there’s almost no need for a second...

Telenet, the Mechelen-based internet and cable TV provider, has taken over mobile phone operator Base from Dutch owner KPN for €1.33 billion. The acquisition gives Telenet its own mobile network for the first time. The deal commits Telenet to invest €240 million on top of the sale price in the...