As of January 1, 2015, exactly 5,315 people in the Brussels-Capital Region will lose their right to unemployment benefits. "Single women with children, who in the past worked part-time, are the hardest hit," says Zoé Genot, Ecolo fraction leader in the Brussels Parliament. The former government...

A planned tunnel under Place Général Meiser in the Brussels commune of Schaerbeek is not the answer to the traffic problems in the area, according to the urban action group Arau. “It makes no sense to break down the Reyers viaduct, only to build it up again as a tunnel a little further on,” the...

Belgian employers find it increasingly difficult to expand their workforce. The number of new jobs in Belgium has reached its lowest level in a decade, reports De Standaard , based on figures from DynaM, a project that charts the dynamics of the Belgian labour market. The figures, which take into...

The folks at the capital’s tourist office Visitbrussels are always dreaming up novel experiences for visitors. Nowhere have their interventions been more imaginative than in the realm of gastronomy. For, not content to simply point you in the direction of the city’s best restaurants, Visitbrussels...

Brussels Airport today is filled with holiday-goers on their way out of the country before the start of the school holiday next week. However, the airport is bogged down with delays caused by members of the federal police, who are taking twice as long to check passengers, in part to look for young...

Spending cuts imposed by the new federal government could mean a “cultural black-out,” according to Peter De Caluwe, director of De Munt/La Monnaie opera house in Brussels ( pictured ). While cuts threaten the existence of some smaller cultural organisations, the three main federally funded...

Kai-Mook, the baby elephant born in Antwerp Zoo in 2009 to the delight of the entire country, will soon become a big sister – and an aunt – animal park Planckendael announced yesterday. One birth is expected to take place next spring, the other next summer. An elephant gestation lasts between 18...

“I know how difficult it is, honestly, to be an expat,” he says. “Whatever age you are, it’s difficult because you’re starting a new experience in your life.” Yet in those first few weeks after their arrival, newcomers in this country typically find many priorities tugging at their time and...

The Flemish public transport company, De Lijn, has previously announced its need to drastically reduce costs and come up with an additional €17 million to maintain services. The company is therefore considering the possibility of increasing its ticket prices by 5%. However, such a measure would...

"While Brussels is home to hundreds of chocolatiers, what makes a visit imperative… is the rich heritage of artisanal chocolate-makers,” writes The New York Times in an article about the 12 treasures of Europe . The piece appeared in the Travel section of the newspaper’s October 19 issue, for which...