Alternative music venue Magasin 4 launches a month-long 20th anniversary celebration with a weekend of concerts and events this Saturday and Sunday. Dutch band Ex, plus L’Enfance Rouge, Gatechin, Vitas Guerulaitis and Spagguetta Orghasmmond take to the stage Saturday; Jean-Louis Costes, Tat2NoisAct...

According to a report by the Federal Monitoring and Evaluation commission, the number of annual notifications of euthanasia in Belgium has nearly doubled since 2010. There were 1,807 cases of euthanasia reported in 2013, 375 more than the year before and almost double the 953 cases reported in 2010...

The website of popular British newspaper The Guardian yesterday featured an article that sums up five reasons why Belgium has the worst traffic in Europe. “Brussels hosts the giant bureaucracy of the EU ... yet its roads, and those in Antwerp, are the most traffic-snarled in Europe. What is Belgium...

Pear growers who do not harvest their crop this year will receive the equivalent of 16c a kilo in compensation from the EU. The aid announced amounts to €6,440 a hectare. The deadline for growers to apply for compensation was yesterday. The government of Flanders has advised growers not to harvest...

Youth unemployment in Brussels fell by 9% compared to one year ago, and is now at its lowest level in 20 years. The overall unemployment rate in the city remains stable at around 21%, reports brusselnieuws.be, based on figures from the National Employment Office (RVA/ONEM). The number of young...

The number of women working in Belgium has increased by 92% between 1985 and 2013. Among men, there was an increase of 16% over the same period, reports Le Soir based on data from the National Social Security Office (RSZ/ONSS). The biggest increase is seen in the number of women working in certain...

BRUGES Belgium’s famed fairy-tale city Bruges was the commercial hub of medieval Europe and it has the architecture to prove it. From the town hall to the world-famous belfry (which was arguably the real star of the 2008 British crime drama In Bruges), the city’s ancient buildings scream Old World...

The federal ministry of defence has called on the government to increase its military spending by €157 million. The defence budget currently represents 0.66 percent of gross domestic product, but has to rise to 0.7 percent to meet the country’s international obligations, the ministry says. The...

On August 1, 2014, a total of 7,076,238 vehicles were registered in Belgium, a record high, writes De Standaard based on figures from the FPS Economy. In the last ten years, the number of vehicles registered in Belgium went up by more than 1 million, an increase of 16%. The registered vehicles are...