It’s been on your mind for a while, or even something you've been meaning to do since you bought the place: you want to renovate your house or apartment. Like in most countries, making improvements to your home is not a simple (and definitely not a quick) task, especially when you’re dealing with...

The average employee in full-time employment in Brussels earns 18% more than someone in the same job working in Flanders, according to figures from the economy ministry. For 2012, the latest year for which figures are available, the average gross monthly income in Flanders was €3,196; in Brussels...

A new high-speed direct rail link between Brussels and Strasbourg will come into service in the spring of 2016, the French rail authority SNCF has announced. The train will travel twice a day in each direction, via Lille and Paris Charles De Gaulle airport in a trip lasting three hours and 40...

A new “homeland security” department proposed by N-VA chairman Bart De Wever to tackle the problem of jihadi fighters returning from battle in Syria would risk clashing with existing services like state intelligence and the terror risk co-ordination office, according to criminologist and security...

Three police officers have been suspended from duty accused of assaulting a man who was handcuffed and lying on a trolley in the Saint-Pierre hospital in central Brussels ( photo ). The actions of the three men, two from the Brussels-Ixelles zone and one from a federal police department, were...

The municipality of Saint-Josse in Brussels could have a new pedestrian red light area by North station by the beginning of next year, a spokesperson for mayor Emir Kir said. Kir commissioned a study to look at the best ways to reduce the nuisance caused by sex workers plying their trade in the...

The jury appointed to select ideas for a new purpose for the Sainte-Catherine church in central Brussels has chosen a short list of five projects, including a social restaurant, a roof terrace, a museum and an extension for the Rits art school. The city of Brussels earlier this year called for...

Bart De Wever, the leader of the N-VA, said yesterday that he wanted Belgium to set up a department for homeland security to survey, among other things, young combatants who leave the country to fight in Syria. Speaking to a group of Belgian and Dutch mayors in the Dutch city of Delft, De Wever,...