The Design Museum contributes to the capital’s Art Deco centenary celebrations with a new exhibition focusing on a pioneering and prolific husband-and-wife-team. Paris, Brussels and back. The Art Deco period of the Baucher-Ferron couple shows how the duo forged a successful design business,...

French-speaking nursery and primary schools in Uccle will no longer celebrate Mothers’ and Fathers’ Day, notably by creating presents, food or poetry to take home to their families. Instead, each year there will be just one "Family Day", the commune has decided. Traditionally, Mothers’ Day falls on...

The "halo" canopy that was supposed to be the architectural highlight of the redevelopment of the Schuman roundabout might be scrapped due to an unexpected increase in the total cost of the works. The first phase of the project cost more than expected, RTBF reports, and there is currently not...

Belgian supermarket chain Colruyt will invite customers to donate €2 to use a shopping trolley in June as part of a fundraising campaign for food banks. The donation is optional and the full amount will be given to local organisations affiliated with food banks. Shoppers can scan a barcode on the...

Some €308.4 million more will be needed to complete the construction of Brussels’ Regional Express Network (RER) rail project, according to new estimates from the cabinet of Belgium's federal mobility minister Jean-Luc Crucke (Les Engagés). Rail network operator Infrabel is said to have warned the...

Belgium has been highlighted as an example of how “extreme policies” may help promote the trade in illicit tobacco products. It is claimed that the country’s strict approach to all smoking products, including a ban on nicotine pouches, merely “displaces” tobacco demand into illicit markets. This...

A 12-year-old boy on a scooter died on Monday evening after a collision with a police car in Elisabeth Park. According to an eyewitness, the victim was hit from behind by the vehicle while being pursued by the police, Bruzz reports, and another witness said that two people were initially riding the...

The renovation of the facades of the Royal Palace in Brussels has been completed, according to an announcement from the Buildings Agency, the property manager of the Belgian state. The renovation work, which started in spring 2024, included the cleaning and restoration of the entire facade of the...

Belgian and Palestinian choreographers unite to stage the world premiere of Badke(remix) , a reworking of a dance performance that reflects the emergency of the war in Gaza. Originally created by Koen Augustijnen, Rosalba Torres and Hildegard De Vuyst, the production toured worldwide between 2013...

A Danish donor at one of Europe’s leading sperm banks, whose sperm was used to conceive at least 67 children, most of them in Belgium, has been found to carry a cancer-causing gene. The donor’s sperm was used to conceive 52 children in Belgium between 2008 and 2017, RTBF reports, and 10 cases of...