Illuminating the social struggles of minority communities across Eastern Europe, the contemporary art exhibition Familiar Strangers at Bozar is a timely exploration of the disparate region. This reflection on Eastern Europe - part of Poland’s EU Council presidency cultural programme - brings...

A third monument has been inaugurated in Belgium to commemorate Belgian femicide victims, listing the women’s names, the date they were murdered and where they lived. In 2021, the first monument was unveiled in Tournai with the names of 100 victims. A second monument, needed to list other murdered...

Almost 800 people may lose their jobs at Alstom’s Bruges site, following national rail operator SNCB’s decision to work instead with Spanish train manufacturer CAF, the ACV-CSC Metea trade union has warned. Alstom Benelux was in the running for what has been dubbed “the contract of the century” to...

A Brussels court has formally condemned the Belgian state, the Brussels-Ixelles police zone and the city's mayor, Philippe Close, in a civil liability trial for police violence committed four years ago at the end of a demonstration at the Mont des Arts. The judgment found in favour of the 11...

Brussels' public hygiene department, Bruxelles Propreté, is organising a spring cleaning campaign that aims to involve citizens, schools, associations and companies in keeping the region clean. The "Wake-Up Clean-Up" initiative will run from 20 to 23 March, tackling litter to make the city a more...

The court of appeal in Brussels has suspended the handling of certain cases due to structural understaffing, it has announced. “The Brussels Court of Appeal regrets this situation, which it has been condemning for years without receiving a positive response that befits the tasks entrusted to this...

A plan to merge the six Brussels police zones will be finalised before the summer, according to Belgian interior minister Bernard Quintin. “I will present this plan to the government in the coming weeks,” Quintin announced. “My ambition is for it to be finalised before the summer, which will give...

Belgian actor Émilie Dequenne has died of a rare cancer in a hospital just outside Paris, her family and her agent confirmed on Sunday. Tributes have been pouring in from the film and cultural world following the death of the 43 year-old who was born in Beloeil in the province of Hainaut. It was in...

Funny Women Brussels stages Mis(S)Labelled by Estonian comic Heli Pärna on 30 March and 6 April at the Plume Persée in Ixelles, as well as 3 May at the Amai Comedy Club in Ghent. Irish comedian and MC Niamh Moroney delivers the opening act for the three Belgian shows before the pair head off on a...

A new online platform to report emergency services and hospitals in Brussels that fail to provide medical care in Dutch has been announced by the regional Flemish government. Emergency departments, medical emergency groups and public hospitals in Brussels are legally required to be bilingual...