Belgian film Dames de couleurs won the Grand Jury Prize at the Caméras des champs international film festival, whose 15th edition was held from May 22 to 26 in Ville-sur-Yron, northeast France. Directed by Patricia Gérimont and Jean-Claude Taburiaux , the documentary follows two dyers, Sanata and...

Ian MacDonald, executive chef at St Andrews Links, home to the Royal and Ancient Golf Club, served up a taste of Scotland in Belgium, the Evening Telegraph reports. He dished out more than 3,000 portions of Cullen skink at the European Seafood Exposition held at Brussels Expo. He was part of a...

Loath though we are to blow our own trumpet, we at The Bulletin remembered that, back in the early 1970s, we called for a “citizen picnic” on the –not-yet-pedestrianised Grand Place, the purpose of which was to show the authorities how out of touch they were in allowing this glorious square to be...

Several surveys, already published or about to be, indicate that a majority of Belgians want King Albert II to remain on the throne. The surveys took place as Belgium prepares to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Albert’s reign, and rumours abound that he could soon abdicate in favour of his son...

Members of Brussels’ Belarusian community held a picket in front of the city’s Swedish consulate on Wednesday to protest against recent controversial events at the Ice Hockey World Championship in Sweden, the pro-democracy Charter 97 organisation reports. Security guards objected to the unfurling...

Belgian supermarket chain Delhaize plans to sell off its businesses in the US as it looks to minimise costs in the region, two sources close to the plan told the International Venture Capital Post . The Belgian grocer’s parent company, Food Lion, has reportedly tapped Lizard to advise on the sale...

Ethiopian activist Bogaletch Gebre has won an international prize for her campaign to eradicate female genital mutilation (FGM), reports Africa Review . Gebre was awarded the King Baudouin Prize in Belgium for confronting “culturally entrenched taboo subjects”, the selection committee said. She...

No fewer than 156,000 new dogs were registered by the Belgian Association for Canine Identification and Registration (ABIEC) last year, report the Sudpresse papers. In total, there are about 1.12 million dogs in Belgium. ABIEC recorded 156,643 new dogs last year, compared to 154,857 in 2011. Some...

A fake museum in the EU quarter presents a chilling vision of the European Union collapsing in 2018. From the viewpoint of 2060, the depressing thesis by Brussels theatre director Thomas Bellinck attempts to deconstruct where the European model went wrong: increasing Euroscepticism and nationalism...

Londoners complaining about bus irregularity, Parisians moaning about tramps in metro stations… is there a European city where people are totally pleased with the public transport system? If so, Brussels isn’t one of them – punctuality, route changes and general public transport etiquette are...