Brussels International Days is just around the corner, and to kick off the 10-day festival a Grand Opening Music and Arts Welcome Festival will go on all day at BOZAR this Sunday, May 11 th . While many anxiously await the festival’s choral music line-up , the artistic programming is also something...

Flanders’ interior minister Geert Bourgeois ( pictured ) has overturned a decision by the Linkebeek city council to send out the letters calling on residents to vote in both French and Dutch, depending on the language of the recipient. These letters are sent to everyone registered to vote in a...

Arts and heritage organisation Openbaar Kunstbezit in Vlaanderen have announced the nominations for their annual Museum Prize. Five museums are nominated from each of Belgium’s three regions, and a jury picks one winner from each region. Each winner receives €5,000. Although the prize money is...

Young Europeans are increasingly uninterested in obtaining a driver’s license, according to Jeroen Smeesters of Federdrive, the umbrella organisation of Belgian driving schools. Research shows that 40% of 30-year-olds in Berlin do not hold a driver’s license. "We see this same trend in all cities...

In the first four months of 2014, the number of companies that filed for bankruptcy was a quarter less than in the same period in 2013. The hospitality industry was especially spared compared to last year, according to numbers from commercial information specialist Graydon Belgium. There were 673...

About 1 million people suffer from asthma in Belgium, including 200,000 children, making Belgium one of the worst countries in Europe for the disease, according to a press conference by the Belgian Society of Pneumology. The Society is calling for more specialised centres for asthma patients. Ten...

The E40 motorway was the scene of massive traffic chaos on Monday after three lorries collided on the eastbound exit to the Groot-Bijgaarden petrol services and caught fire. One truck driver died, and the road was blocked in both directions for several hours. Emergency services feared the danger of...

The national rail authority SNCB/NMBS and the Italian rolling stock manufacturer AnsaldoBreda have reached a settlement in the dispute over the ill-fated Fyra train. AnsaldoBreda will pay the SNCB/NMBS €2.5 million in damages. The Fyra train was the intended replacement for the Benelux train...

There are 467 Belgians imprisoned abroad, according to reports from Sudpresse newspapers on Tuesday. The largest group is in France, with 91 Belgian detainees. Spain and Morocco have the next greatest number of Belgian prisoners, with 71 and 54 respectively, followed by Italy (23) and the UK (17)...