By reaching the semi-finals at Wimbledon, Belgian tennis sensation Kirsten Flipkens has earned in the past ten days almost half of what she had previously earned in her entire career. With this place in the semis, Flipkens is already guaranteed to take home €467,000 – plus a further €14,000 for the...

Carolina Ballet principal dancers Margaret Severin-Hansen and Gabor Kapin have been invited to perform with the Royal Ballet of Flanders in Antwerp for the 2013-2014 season, reports Ballet News . “This is a great honour for these two wonderful dancers and a coup for the company,” says artistic...

Helpdesk assistant Konstantinos Papageorgiou, 28, from Schoten talks about what he earns and how he spends it What do you do for a living? I work for USG People, an international recruitment company active in ten European countries, specialising in temporary employment and secondment work. On my...

UK nationals make up fewer than 5% of the European Commission's staff, compared with nearly 10% from France, reports BBC News . The falling number of British men and women working in the upper echelons of EU institutions risks limiting the country's influence, MPs are warning. The Commons Foreign...

Belgium said it would trim €750m from its budget through minor cuts across a broad swathe of areas of government and social security, as it responded to warnings from the European Union over its deficit, writes the Wall Street Journal’s Frances Robinson . "We see austerity measures in several...

A couple from Charleroi has had a particularly colourful wedding, by getting married as Shrek and Fiona. Pascal and Nancy Dampremy, 40 and 36 respectively, got hitched at Charleroi town hall, dressed as the ogre and ogress from the Dreamworks franchise. "They are characters we both like and, with...

Critically acclaimed new period drama, The White Queen has caused a huge rise in bookings in Belgium, where it was filmed, reports TravelBite . Hotel booking specialist LateRooms.com reports there has been a 66% increase week on week in hotel bookings in Ghent since the drama aired its second...

The Belgian telecoms regulator, BIPT, has published details of its forthcoming 4G licence auction for spectrum in the 800MHz bands, reports Cellular News . A total of three licenses are available, each consisting of 2x10MHz of spectrum, available for a 20-year term. A reserve price of €120m has...

Square Ambiorix, named after the famous Gaul, is a lovely green square at the heart of the European district. It’s a few hundred metres from the Berlaymont building, home to the European Commission, and Place du Luxembourg, home to the European Parliament. Marte Borhaug from Norway and her partner...