The Belgian Comic Strip Museum in Brussels’ Sablon/Zavel district will soon offer virtual visits via Google Street View. A cart equipped with 15 cameras drove slowly through the museum yesterday, while taking 360-degree photographs. Google Street View makes it possible to take virtual “walks”...

Marianne Thyssen, 58, has been named as Belgium’s candidate for European Commissioner. The decision was part of the negotiations to form a new federal government. Belgium had been told by the European Commission president to submit a candidate for the EU post by today. Thyssen ( pictured ) has been...

The federal government’s plans for selectively turning off the electricity supply to certain areas this winter – the so-called brownout – have been announced by interior minister Melchior Wathelet. The brownout plan is a precaution in case power supplies run short this winter, as a result of the...

Belgium ranks 18th in the 2014 Global Competitiveness Report by the World Economic Forum (WEF), an annual list of the world’s most competitive economies. Last year, Belgium came in 17th place, while three years ago it ranked 15th in the list. Overall, Belgium booked a slight improvement compared to...

Youth football is experiencing an unprecedented influx of players across Belgium, resulting in a shortage of places in local clubs, reports De Persgroep on Thursday. According to youth trainers, the sudden interest is fuelled by the hype surrounding the Red Devils following this summer’s World Cup...

Belgium’s Health Council ( Hoge Gezondheidsraad / Conseil Supérieur de la Santé ) is working on a new food pyramid as a recommendation for a healthy diet, taking into account the opinions of a steadily increasing number of critics who call the traditional pyramid “complex, outdated and tailored to...

Nine out of 10 shoppers would like to know more about where the meat they buy comes from, according to a survey carried out by the Belgian consumer organisation Test-Achats. Under European law, all fresh meat sold has to be labelled with the country of origin, but the directive does not cover...

Tomorrow (Thursday) is a make or break moment in the formation of a new federal coalition government, according to Kris Peeters of the Flemish Christian Democrats party CD&V. “The centre-right coalition has to be clearly seen to be viable on Thursday,” he said. The government negotiators are...

In the context of a European offensive to curtail speeding, Belgian police recorded a total of 25,953 traffic offenses on Belgium’s national roads and highways during the week of August 18-24, reports La Dernière Heure . The so-called ‘Operation Speed’ was carried out in 25 European countries. The...