At least two medical centres in Brussels are using patients’ personal data to charge insurance providers for services that never took place, according to an investigation by Dutch-language news outlet Bruzz. In one example, a Brussels resident discovered that his health insurer Christian Mutual (CM...

Sixteen former UberEats delivery drivers are taking legal action against the Belgian branch of the American mega-corporation with support from the CSC, the Égaliberté foundation, the Centre d'Information à l'Education Populaire (CIEP-B) and the Human Rights League. The former workers, who were...

King Philippe knighted 10 people and bestowed an honorary title on 14 others in a special ceremony on Thursday, including Belgian music artist Stromae. The ceremony takes place each year and generally concerns business leaders, NGO founders, artists, novelists and researchers. Some of the...

Two candidates have submitted bids to take over the troubled Filigranes bookstore chain, which has been beleaguered by financial woes and accusations of a toxic work environment. The two offers are “serious in terms of valuation and takeover of staff,” said Emmanuelle Bouillon of the Brussels...

A painting by Belgian artist René Magritte has sold for a record $121m (€114m) at Christie’s in New York. The 1954 version of his seminal surrealist series L’Empire des lumières ( The Empire of Light ) had been valued at €95m, while the previous record for a Magritte work was set at €79m in 2022...

From September 2025, mobile phones will be banned in all primary and secondary schools in the Brussels-Wallonia Federation. In practice, many schools already implement this rule, but are finding it difficult to monitor. With this in mind, three Brussels-City schools are testing anti-smartphone...

Flemish public transport company De Lijn will have to reduce its services in several areas from 6 January 2025, due to a shortage of drivers and rolling stock, its director Ann Schoubs has announced. In September, De Lijn was faced with a 2.4% shortage of drivers. The areas most affected by the...

The social cost of road accidents in Belgium amounts to a massive €10.9 billion a year, according to a new study published by Vias, Belgium’s road safety institute. The report, that examines the immediate and subsequent costs of road accidents, was released to mark the World Day of Remembrance for...

With the COP29 United Nations global climate change conference in Baku, Azerbaijan finishing this Friday, concentrating on climate finance, and as Belgium’s budget discussions are not proving positive for the environment, the country’s Climate Coalition is highlighting that “the cost of inaction is...