Members of the Belgian royal family have long travelled using ‘fake’ passports for security reasons, former foreign minister Mark Eyskens has revealed in the VTM programme Royalty. Not only passports but also other identity documents have been issued to some members of the royal family, allowing...

The Association of Voucher Issuers (VIA), which represents the interests of companies issuing prepaid vouchers has warned that scrapping meal tickets would have "serious economic and social consequences" for Belgian employees and employers alike. It follows a call by the minister for economy Johan...

Belgian finance minister Koen Geens has announced plans to abolish a raft of taxes deemed to be unfair, obsolete, or contrary to international law, writes Tax News’ Ulrika Lomas . Alluding to such levies as "plague taxes," Geens pledged to repeal any charges that yield little for the state, but...

Belgian fashion pioneer Bruno Pieters is breaking from tradition and offering high-end customers “transparent shopping from A to Z” through Honest by , a web-only label he created last year which gives the shopper an intricately detailed breakdown of a product’s elaborate supply chain. In the world...

Like most of those in Europe, Belgium’s Royal Meteorological Institute (RMI) has its roots in the national observatory. As technology rapidly improved towards the end of the 19th century, scientists, who would later call themselves meteorologists, were starting to investigate the lowest part of the...

Flemish public transport company De Lijn wants to introduce four tram routes into Brussels, but some STIB directors are vetoing the plan because the draft agreement does not allow the Brussels company, in return, to extend some of its lines into Flemish Brabant, La Capitale reports today. Under De...

One of seven Belgian football hooligans arrested in Lisbon on Tuesday is a Brussels policeman, Het Laatste Nieuws reported yesterday. The information has been confirmed by a press release from the Brussels-West police force. The arrests took place before the Champions League game between Benfica...

The European Court of Human Rights has declared inadmissible an application filed by the Church of Scientology claiming that the Belgian authorities had breached the organisation’s rights by issuing statements to various media about an ongoing investigation. In 1997, a judicial investigation was...

London will celebrate Belgian electronic music in October with a week-long series of parties, gigs, club nights and film, reports Data Transmission . Belgium Booms will cover all aspects of Belgian electronic music, from the country’s pioneering EBM, New Beat and techno artists of the 80s and early...