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Thieves steal 10 paintings in Brussels museum raid

Thieves stole 10 paintings worth a total of €1.5m in a swift nighttime burglary at a Brussels museum, writes Reuters’ Clément Rossignol . In the early hours of Tuesday, the thieves broke a window on the ground floor of the Van Buuren museum in Uccle and, even though the alarm was triggered, managed...

Port of Antwerp on right track

The port of Antwerp handled 95,662,759 tonnes of freight during the first six months of this year, an increase of 2% in comparison with the same period in 2012. “In combination with the investments recently announced, these half-year figures lead us to be cautiously optimistic for the first...

Annapurna

Submitted by PMD on Wed, 07/17/2013 - 16:02

I blame the BBC’s programming department. After what felt like six months of Siberian weather, summer is finally back, with a vengeance, and which brand new culinary series does Auntie have in store for us? That’s right – Rick Stein’s India. So salivating are the dishes featured in Stein’s gastro-tour of the subcontinent that, in spite of the near-sweltering heat, we had to have a curry.

Princess Astrid to head future trade missions

Future Belgian trade missions will be headed by princess Astrid, De Gazet van Antwerpen and Het Belang van Limburg report today – a role expected to be confirmed at the next Council of Ministers. According to two Dutch newspapers, prince Philip, who becomes king on Sunday, personally insisted that...

Belgium clarifies tax amnesty procedures

A new fiscal amnesty regime came into force in Belgium on Monday, writes Tax News’ Ulrika Lomas . The Belgian finance ministry has provided clarification regarding application of the old and new tax regimes, and the admissibility of amnesty declarations. Taxpayers who submitted a declaration before...

Belgian and Dutch ambassadors voice support for Bulgaria protesters

Belgium’s Ambassador to Bulgaria, Anick Van Calster (pictured) , and her Dutch counterpart Karel van Kesteren have become the latest foreign diplomats to talk about the ongoing anti-government protests in Bulgaria, describing them as protests about European values, echoing a joint statement by...

Beer could cost Dutroux accomplice parole

Former Marc Dutroux accomplice Michel Lelièvre could see his parole plans scuppered by a beer he drank, De Morgen and Het Laatste Nieuws report today. Press photographs show that, on Monday, on the first of five ‘day releases’ granted to him by a court in June, Lelièvre had a beer - his first in...

Belgian footballer gets lengthy ban for match-fixing

Torino’s Belgian goalkeeper Jean-Francois Gillet has been banned for three years and seven months for suspected match fixing, reports Football Italia . The Belgium international was the most high profile player to face sporting fraud charges relating to two games involving Gillet’s former club,...

Wage watchers: how much does a bicycle mechanic earn?

Bicycle mechanic Emad Tyar Abush, 34, from Leuven talks about what he earns and how he spends it What do you do for a living? I repair bicycles at Fietspunt in Leuven. We’re based at the station near the town hall. So we get many students, but also tourists, commuters and locals. We rent and sell...

Car vignette plans abandoned

There won’t be a road vignette system in Belgium, De Morgen has learnt from various government sources. The introduction of the kilometre charge tax for trucks, however, is maintained and will come into force on January 1, 2016. The Flemish government was never enthusiastic about the introduction...

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