The Belgian telecoms regulator, BIPT, has published details of its forthcoming 4G licence auction for spectrum in the 800MHz bands, reports Cellular News . A total of three licenses are available, each consisting of 2x10MHz of spectrum, available for a 20-year term. A reserve price of €120m has...

Square Ambiorix, named after the famous Gaul, is a lovely green square at the heart of the European district. It’s a few hundred metres from the Berlaymont building, home to the European Commission, and Place du Luxembourg, home to the European Parliament. Marte Borhaug from Norway and her partner...

A UN diplomat from Belgium was left outraged after his family was thrown out of an upmarket New York state restaurant because his wife was breastfeeding, reports the Daily Mail . Tom Neijens, 36, and his 34-year-old wife, Roseline Remans claim they were treated like 'terrorists' at the Metropolis...

Transatlantic relations plunged at the weekend as Berlin, Brussels and Paris all demanded that Washington account promptly and fully for new disclosures on the scale of the US National Security Agency's spying on its European allies, writes The Guardian’s Ian Traynor . Guy Verhofstadt, the former...

Thousands of people were in Zagreb's main square as Croatia officially became the European Union’s 28th member state, reports the BBC’s Guy De Launey . They enjoyed performances ranging from traditional dance to hip hop - culminating in a stirring rendition of the EU anthem Ode To Joy at midnight...

Fashion One, the international channel for fashion, entertainment and lifestyle television, will launch a dedicated feed in Belgium via Telenet on July 15, reports Broadband TV News’ Robert Briel . The international television network, targeting to fully localise the channel by the end of the year...

Two celebrated Belgian musicians will appear as guests in the Manila Symphony Orchestra’s latest production, The Trumpet Calls, at the Francisco Santiago Hall, reports the Inquirer . The concert will feature Belgian guest artists Manu Mallearts on trumpet, and Thanos Adamopoulos as guest conductor...

Kicking off last night (Thursday) and continuing tonight is the opening weekend of Recyclart summer holidays . Every year the urban arts centre, operating from the former Bruxelles-Chapelle train station, runs all sorts of evening activities on two nights during the summer season. Free or for a...

Health ministers at both federal and regional levels have come together to prepare a plan of action aimed at reducing alcohol consumption, the Sudpresse newspapers report today. Among the 28 measures in the so-called ‘Alcohol Plan 2014-2018’ is a ban on ‘happy hours’ in bars and the introduction of...

A Belgian gynaecologist who injected women with specially-prepared sperm cells so they could choose the sex of their babies has been fined €5,500, reports the Daily Mail . At least 165 women paid about €1,200 to be treated by Dr Frank Sterckx in his private clinic at Borgehout, near Antwerp -...