Passengers travelling from Brussels Airport yesterday were faced with longer queues than usual because of industrial action by staff at Belgocontrol, the national air traffic control agency. Belgocontrol unions closed down Belgian airspace at 18.45, preventing take-offs and landings. The protest...

The captain of the Red Devils, Vincent Kompany, will not play in the national team’s next World Cup match against South Korea later today. At a press conference on Wednesday evening, Belgium’s manager, Marc Wilmots, said that Kompany had injured his groin again during training and would need “a few...

Belgium is the 10th ‘best country in the world’, according to the first Good Country Index, which provides ‘a measure of what each country on earth contributes to the common good of humanity’. The index is the result of a study of 125 countries in seven areas: science and technology, culture,...

Between 2012 and 2013, the number of asylum applications in Belgium fell by 25%, according to the annual report of the Federal Migration Centre. At the same time, the overall number of asylum seekers in the European Union rose by 30 percent. Belgium is the only EU country where the number of asylum...

Informateur Bart De Wever (N-VA) met the King earlier today at the palace to hand in his final report on the weeks of discussions between political leaders on the possibilities of forming a Belgian government coalition. De Wever requested to be relieved of his duties of informateur, and the King...

Brussels football club RWDM Brussels has gone into voluntary liquidation as a result of intractable financial problems, chair Johan Vermeersch announced. “It’s all over,” he said. The club, known simply as FC Brussels, was based in the Molenbeek commune's Edmond Machtens Stadium ( pictured ) and...

Record numbers of passengers are expected at Brussels Airport from Thursday, 26 June, the day when the holiday season kicks off in earnest. No less than 42,000 passengers are due to take to the skies from the airport on Thursday and on Friday, 27 June, that figure will rise to 44,000 – record...

Using your mobile phone abroad looks set to be a lot cheaper this summer, as the European Commission announced on Tuesday that data roaming charges in EU countries are to be cut by more than 50% from 1 July. This mobile roaming cost-cutting exercise by the Commission carries on from a similar...

One month after a gunman opened fire at the Jewish Museum of Belgium in Brussels killing four people, museum staff gathered at the Museum’s premises on Tuesday to commemorate the lives of those killed: Myriam and Emmanuel Riva, Dominique Sabrier and Alexandre Strens all died subsequent to the...

Moving to a new foreign city like Brussels is particularly agonizing for individuals with food allergies or special diets; be it gluten or lactose intolerance, egg and nut allergies or simply a commitment to healthy eating, finding places with adapted food menus takes time – time your rumbling...