The pop culture show Made in Asia returns to Brussels from 7 to 9 March offering an immersive experience for all fans of manga, anime, video games and cosplay. Asian pop culture continues to take the world by storm and this annual event at Brussels Expo showcases the universe with a special focus...

Italian-American DJ Anyma will perform an extended DJ set at the foot of the Atomium on 17 May, announced Brussels electronic music collective Hangar. Tickets are now on sale for the Atomium Open Air event. It offers "total immersion - without a screen, letting the music guide an extended journey...

Belgium’s National Institute for Health and Disability Insurance, Inami, will no longer reimburse telephone consultations with general practitioners, it has announced. The measure, which came into effect last week, will initially apply until the end of June. In the meantime, a working group will...

The number of people in Belgium relying on food banks remained high last year, and this followed significant increases over the past decade, according to the Belgian Federation of Food Banks (FBBA), which is calling on the new federal government for more financial aid. In 2024, about 209,000...

The ongoing strike by railway workers that began on Friday will continue to cause disruption on the Belgian rail network for at least nine days. Only two trains out of five were running between the major cities at the start of this week in an effort to guarantee some level of service on the busiest...

A large stack of containers in Ixelles that has been blocking out the sun for about 30 residents and some organisations since November will remain in place until June, contrary to promises made to move it as quickly as possible. The impact of the container tower on the neighbourhood has been...

Belgium’s defence minister Theo Francken is considering a voluntary military service programme aimed at increasing the amount of young people working in defence. Belgium abolished its compulsory military service in 1995 and has no intention of reinstating a mandatory initiative, RTBF reports, but...

The mayors of Anderlecht, Forest and Saint-Gilles, along with the police chief of the Midi police zone, are again calling for the federal judicial police and the federal railway police forces to be strengthened around Brussels-Midi station. “We don’t want a police state, we want to be able to...

Two acclaimed musicians, Elina Buksha and Artiom Shishkov, perform an extraordinary evening of violin duos at Full Circle in Ixelles on 8 March. The programme spans centuries of musical genius, featuring works by Bach, Ligeti, Denissov, and Prokofiev. From the intricate counterpoint of Bach to the...

The latest figures on demographic trends in Belgium from national statistical office Statbel and the Federal Planning Bureau forecast that the only way the country’s population will remain stable is through immigration. The report found that migration continues to be the main driver of population...