The ombudsman for Belgium's national train service has seen growing complaints about SNCB trains skipping stations and cutting routes short to make up for delays. That is one finding from the 2024 report from Ombudsrail, the mediation service for train travellers. Its 50-page document reveals that...

A successful crowdfunding initiative raised €6,371 for a DIY store in Brussels that was vandalised by Club Brugge football supporters during the violence surrounding the Belgian Cup final. Non-profit organisation Capital created the fundraiser with a target of €5,000, Bruzz reports, and any amount...

A former accountant at Train World railway museum in Brussels has been convicted of embezzling a total of €1.06 million over a period of five years. The fraud was first uncovered in April 2021 - at the close of the 2020 financial year - and the employee was convicted in 2023, but news of the...

More than 500 people in Belgium walked into the dawn on 10 May to raise €30,000 for the CHS Helpline, which provides mental health support to English speakers across the country. Most of the participants in the suicide prevention initiative gathered in Brussels’ Cinquantenaire park for the 5km walk...

Belgium’s household help firms – so-called "titres-services" or "dienstencheques" companies – must do more to guarantee the wellbeing of their (primarily) female workers, according to a report by Belgium’s labour inspectorate, the federal department responsible for monitoring working conditions. It...

Brussels has almost 2,000 police officers in the North and Midi police zones, but only a quarter of them live in the Brussels region. That was the message of chiefs of police Jurgen De Landsheer (Midi) and Olivier Slosse (Brussels-North) at a recent Brussels parliament hearing. The situation has...

The first redundancies to come in the closure of Cora's seven hypermarkets in Belgium will be made on 30 September, according to the SETCa-BBTK union. The announcement comes after consultations between management and trade unions, a month after Cora announced that the two hypermarkets in Brussels...

The open house day for the European Union institutions in Brussels has been hailed as a success, with Belgians, Europeans and tourists from all over the world taking part in free conferences, exhibitions and educational workshops. Held to coincide with Europe Day, the open house drew thousands of...

A group of Brussels residents is organising a picnic on 9 June at Place de la Bourse to highlight the political impasse keeping Brussels from forming a government. The action follows an earlier protest meeting in March 2025, when about 100 Brussels residents gathered in silence for 89 minutes on...

Nine people were slightly injured and taken to the hospital after a car and a bus from Brussels public transport operator Stib collided in Ixelles near the European Parliament, according to the Brussels fire brigade. “The Brussels Fire Brigade, medical services and the Brussels-Capital/Ixelles...