N-VA party president Bart De Wever has been given one more week to draw up a report for King Philippe on the formation of a coalition government. De Wever was initially asked by the king to submit his findings yesterday, but the N-VA leader has requested a further week to continue talks with...

Belgium ratified the UN Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) yesterday at UN headquarters in New York, reports the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Belgium was one of eight countries yesterday to sign the landmark UN treaty with an aim to regulate the multibillion-dollar global arms trade. Forty countries...

The Federal Agency for the Safety of the Food Chain (FASFC) confirmed that insects may be used for human consumption. From now on, ten different types of insects can be eaten in Belgium, but there are a host of strict regulations around the cultivation and sale of insects for consumption. There is...

Belgium trainer Marc Wilmots is sending one of the youngest teams to the World Cup. Of all 32 squads headed for Brazil this month, the Red Devils have some of the youngest players, with an average age of 26 years and 15 days old. That's just shy of younger teams Ghana (25 years and 244 days) and...

The shooting death of three people at the Jewish Museum in Brussels last month sent a shock wave through Belgium but perhaps nowhere as much as in Jewish quarters. Diana Kanter , a member of the International Jewish Centre, Brussels’ only English-speaking liberal reform Jewish community, tells us...

Be it for a new job or a yearning for maximum flexibility in your day-to-day life, you are thinking about getting behind the wheel and driving a car in Belgium. Here's what you need to know (and do) before getting into the driver's seat. Out on the open road? Before you proceed further in this...

In view of this week’s G7 event in Brussels, the summit of the leaders of the world’s seven largest industrialised countries, there will be border checks carried out in Belgium for the first time since the introduction of the Schengen area in 1995. Travelling to the Belgian capital for the summit...

It is not the job of the army to guard Jewish sites against possible terrorism, a spokesperson for the federal defence ministry has said. The call for military protection for sensitive sites in Antwerp came from the city’s mayor, Bart De Wever, in the wake of the terror-inspired shootings at the...