Europe is filled with impressive art from across empires and centuries. But tiny Belgium holds its fair share of the continent’s cultural riches. Here are five essential pieces of Belgian art that any visitor or resident should see at least once in their lifetimes. 1. The Ghent Altarpiece, Hubrecht...

Twitter has announced it will open an office in Brussels at the beginning of 2015, where it will employ about five people, reports De Tijd . As Belgians becomes increasingly active on the social network, Twitter has decided it is time for a local office, in order to better reach advertisers...

Two in three Walloons (66.1%) feel 'rather different' or 'very different' from Flemings, reports RTBF, according to a study by The Walloon Institute for Evaluation, Prospective and Statistics (IWEPS). In a survey of 1,200 people from French-speaking Wallonia, the majority of respondents said they...

Brussels cinemas last year counted about 209,000 less visitors than in 2012, a decrease of 5.4%, reports brusselnieuws.be, according to figures from the FPS Economy. Throughout Belgium, movie audience numbers fell by 4.1% between 2012 and 2013. The Brussels cinemas hold up better than those in the...

Eddy Bruyninckx, CEO of the Antwerp Port Authority for the last 22 years, has been awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by the professional periodical International Bulk Journal . The award is one of several given out annually by the industry journal. Bruyninckx was given the award for his...

The results of a mass colon cancer screening in Flanders shows that slightly more than 10% of participants, who were aged 66 to 74, had irregular results. They were referred to specialists for further tests. The results of the population screening were announced by the region’s public health...

When I meet Sachli Gholamalizad in a diner in Antwerp, one of the first things she tells me is that, although A Reason To Talk tells the story of a young Iranian family finding their way in a small town in Belgium after fleeing the Iranian Revolution, she doesn’t want to be pushed into that little...

The federal prosecutor’s office is carrying out an investigation into claims that one of the men visible on the latest video released by the terrorist organisation IS is a man from Vilvoorde. Belgium’s state security services spotted the 28-year-old on the video, in which several beheadings are...

Belgian Prime minister Charles Michel (MR) will meet with Pope Francis next Tuesday, November 25 in Strasbourg, in the framework of the Belgian Presidency of the Council of Europe. Since November 1, Belgium took over the six-month chairmanship of the Council of Europe. The Council brings together a...