The Brussels and the Flemish governments are working together to make integration courses for foreigners in Brussels compulsory. The ordinance will be submitted in the coming weeks, reports Brusselnieuws.be. The agreement is the result of a meeting between ministers Rudi Vervoort (PS) and Geert...

Businesses in Belgium have cash in hand of at least €240 million, which they are on the verge of investing, according to a study by the consultancy Deloitte. B-information, which collects financial data, delivered findings to Deloitte that show, according to 2013 tax returns, that the business...

Brussels is full of museums. You’ve roamed the galleries of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium , seen the latest exhibition in the Bozar , and peered into a Velociraptor’s mouth at the Institute of Natural Sciences . But in the quirky city of Brussels, there are certainly some peculiar...

Research by Flemish family agency Kind en Gezin (Child and Family) shows that 24 child daycare centres located in suburbs of the Flemish periphery around Brussels do not meet the language requirements imposed on them by the Flemish government’s new childcare decree. According to the decree, the...

Belgium has one of the world’s most innovative economies, according to the German Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), reports De Tijd . The researchers evaluated 35 developed countries and gave them a score based on the extent to which their economy supports the areas that are of key...

If the federal government’s plans for selectively turning off the electricity supply to certain areas this winter, a so-called brownout, are implemented, all train traffic in Belgium would come to a standstill, according to the National Belgian Railway authority SNCB . The proposed brownout plan is...

Brussels’ major cultural institutions La Monnaie, Bozar and the National Orchestra will not face as many spending cuts as first announced, thanks to an intervention by federal minister Didier Reynders (MR), who convinced the federal government to make a "cultural exception". The announcement that...

There’s a growing trend in some Brussels communes to have a group of volunteers attend the funeral of someone they don’t know, and sometimes even say a reading during the service. In the Brussels commune of Jette, the system of volunteer funeral guests has been around for two years, and in Woluwe-...

Staff from the Institute for Nature and Woodland Research out on the North Sea last week for a bird census spotted a basking shark near the Oosthinder sandbank, several kilometres off the coast of Bredene. “This is a rare sighting,” Jan Seys of the Flemish Maritime Institute told VRT. “In the last...