Fines for driving along the Chaussée d’Ixelles – the popular shopping street that since September 2018 has been pedestrianised from 7.00 to 19.00 – average 70,000 a year, generating around €4.2 million in annual revenue for the commune, new figures reveal. According to Ixelles local councillor...

The internationally-reputed Jerusalem Quartet perform a remarkable concert of melodic masterpieces, including an enchanting Octet by Mendelssohn, at the Cercle Gaulois in Brussels on 17 May. Organised by classical music collaborative Brussels Muzieque, the upcoming performance is a flagship concert...

Cycling in Brussels – seen as nothing short of crazy 30 years ago – is becoming more popular every year, new figures confirm. The most recent BeMob survey by Belgium’s mobility ministry has revealed that 32% of Belgian workers used a bicycle to go to work in 2023, compared to 29% in 2022,...

Burnout is a now familiar syndrome denoting extreme workplace stress, resulting in complete mental and physical exhaustion. ‘Boreout’ – being chronically bored at work - is much less well known, but its consequences on wellbeing are similar, Virginie Di Giamberardino told Le Soir. She’s an adviser...

The vibrant but maligned Brussels municipality of Molenbeek could become a city, if MP Ahmed Mouhssin (Ecolo) gets his way, reports RTBF. According to Mouhssin, the title of city would be a real asset, both in terms of tourism and as a major competitor in the race to become one of the three...

The painting Le Banquet by Belgian surrealist René Magritte goes on sale in New York on 16 May, Sotheby’s auction house has announced. One of a series of four oil paintings, the 1955 work is estimated at between $15 and $20 million (€14 to €18.5m). Depicting a bright red sun piercing through a...

De Panne, Koksijde and Nieuwpoort are the latest communes on the Belgian coast to oppose a French government project to build an offshore wind farm near Dunkirk. The proposal includes turbines almost as high as the Eiffel Tower: 300 metres above sea level (the Paris icon is 330m). The French...

The landmark American Theatre - built for the 1958 World’s Fair at Heysel in Laeken - has been sold to the city of Brussels. This decision follows an agreement by the federal council of ministers, announced secretary of state for building Mathieu Michel (MR), in a press release. Located a few...

In the continuing aim to question the past, and the reputation of once honoured figures in Belgium, notably for their role in the Congo, the communes of Uccle and Ixelles have joined forces to request that Rue Edmond Picard - which straddles both municipalities - should be renamed Rue Andrée Geulen...

More Palestinians that have been given refugee status in another European Union member state are coming to Belgium, the Office of the Commissioner General for Refugees and Stateless Persons (CGRA) has announced. The organisation’s announcement followed information published by Flemish news service...