Belgium’s Queen Mathilde will kick-off her Asian tour Wednesday when she arrives in Hong Kong for a three-day visit. Although the itinerary for her Majesty and a 300-person Belgian trade delegation will be primarily focused on business and finance, strengthening cultural relations will also be on...

The arrival of Ryanair at Brussels Airport risks bringing with it more noise nuisance for the residents of Brussels, according to the mayor of Woluwe-Saint-Pierre, one of the municipalities lying under the airport's flight paths. According to Benoît Cerexhe , Brussels Airport ought to remain a city...

Flanders still has no intention of taking part in the financing of a new national football stadium planned for Parking C of the Heysel complex, sports minister Philippe Muyters repeated this week in the Flemish parliament, despite a report which suggested that the project was not feasible without...

Citizens, companies and government departments now have easy access to all available geographical data on Flanders and Brussels via the portal site Geopunt.be. The online application was presented yesterday during a meeting of the Flemish Geographical Information Agency in Ghent. On the site, you...

A tax paid by every household in Flanders for the maintenance and renovation of the sewer network was used by municipalities for its intended purpose, the Association of Flemish Towns and Municipalities has said. The association was responding to a report from the Flemish Environment Agency (VMM),...

Belgium’s food banks have issued an urgent appeal for donations, as some locations are now having to turn people away because of a shortage of provisions. At Moeders voor Moeders (MvM) in Antwerp, the organisation best known for its work with foundlings, are at this point only catering to those...

The Maison Autrique, built in 1893, was one of architect Victor Horta’s first major commissions and this alone makes the fully restored house worth the visit. The temporary exhibition Shadows & Lanterns (until January 26) is an added bonus, enhancing the fin-de-siècle flavour of the place. With...

The low-cost airline Ryanair will begin flights out of Brussels Airport from February, with 10 new destinations, the company announced at a press conference yesterday in Brussels. Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary said Brussels would be the airline’s second hub in Belgium after Charleroi and promised the...

A proposal to extend the right to euthanasia to minors passed by a vote of 26 to 8 yesterday in the Senate committee on justice and social affairs. The measure received broad cross-party support, although CD&V and its French-speaking counterpart cdh voted against, together with Vlaams Belang...

Flanders’ minister of public works, Hilde Crevits, has told a conference on super storms that three artificial sandbanks might be built to protect the Belgian coastline between Zeebrugge and the Dutch border. The last of the sandbanks would extend into Dutch coastal waters off the town of Cadzand...