More than half (53%) of Walloons would opt for a republic should Belgium disappear and Wallonia become independent, with Belgian prime minister Elio Di Rupo as their preferred choice of president, according to a survey by Ipsos and the Sudpresse group. The remaining 47% would favour a monarchy. “...

Amnesty International’s annual report reveals that Belgium is unable to control satisfactorily the final destination of the weapons it sells abroad, because of legislation passed by the Flemish and Walloon parliaments last June on the import, export and transfer of arms, which imposes inadequate...

Belgian postal operator bpost today announced that it would list a minority stake, currently held by private equity group CVC Funds, on the Brussels stock exchange, Reuters reports. The Belgian state will continue to hold a 50.01% stake in the former monopoly and will not sell shares in the...

Several irregularities undermine the legality of Brussels’ annual Car Free Sunday event, prosecutor Bruno Bulthé has written in a letter to the attorney general at the court of appeal of Brussels, reports Le Soir. He argues that it is impossible for the authorities to punish drivers flouting the...

A little taste of Belgium is coming to New Haven, Connecticut: Belgium-based bakery Maison Mathis is set to open behind Yale University’s Davenport College, writes the Yale Daily News’s Monica Disare . Though the exact date of opening has not been determined, construction has already started. In...

Here we go then, the final few days before the big event. Come Sunday morning, you’ll find me lining up with tens of thousands of others at the start line of the Brussels 20km, hoping that all these months of training will get me round and deliver me in one piece a couple of hours later to the...

Youth club worker Willem Vounckx, 27, from Aarschot talks about what he earns and how he spends it What do you do for a living? As a city employee I support young people in their running of the youth club. That means I help the volunteers in the overall running of the club, the admin side of things...

The personal data of patients in Belgium is not being used as efficiently as it should be, according to a study by the Operation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Le Soir reports. Of the 19 countries surveyed, Belgium is among the countries with the most restricted use of personal health...

Belgian mathematician Pierre Deligne yesterday received the Abel Prize, unofficially known as the Nobel Prize for Mathematics, from King Harald V of Norway at an award ceremony at the University Aula in Oslo, the organisation’s website reports. The Abel Prize, which carries a cash award of around €...