After more than five decades, the family of the now-deceased Guido Poets is being compensated for an unlawful seizure of his property for use by the public domain. A piece of land owned by Poets’ elderly parents was bought by the Flemish city of Lommel in 1976, with the intent of building a...

Morning collections of rubbish in some parts of Brussels are disrupted this weekend - and again on Friday 10 May - due to a strike. The municipalities and districts concerned are Anderlecht, Brussels-City (including Avenue Louise), Laeken, Forest, Ixelles, parts of Jette and Saint-Gilles, according...

After tackling major societal topics such as energy and decolonisation, CIVA’s new show Simone Guillissen-Hoa explores gender in architecture while being the first exhibition ever to be devoted to the life and work of the pioneering 20th-century Belgian architect. It honours the Chinese-born...

Come and join hundreds of people walking together from the darkness of night into the light of sunrise on 11 May at 5.00. That’s the plea by organisers of the annual symbolic fundraising walk Darkness Into Light . It is raising mental health awareness and funds to support two Belgian suicide...

Brussels celebrates its 35th anniversary with a packed weekend of free activities in the 2024 Iris Festival . On Saturday, Schaerbeek, Evere and Saint-Josse organise numerous guided tours before the Iris Tipik Electro Night transforms the Place des Palais into a mega dance floor. The lineup...

Brussels may have no river, but it does have canals, which make a lovely way to discover the capital or commute - and Brussels By Water’s Brussels-Vilvoorde waterbus, which starts near Kanal art centre and ends at Vilvoorde’s new waterfront area, resumed service on 1 May. The waterbus can be used...

Several new miniature installations have been unveiled at the Mini-Europe amusement park in Brussels under the banner 'EU in ME'. Belgium’s foreign minister Hadja Lahbib (MR), deputy head of the European Commission representation in Belgium, Tom De Smedt, and honorary president of the European...

Strikes at Brussels Airlines in the first quarter of this year cost the airline an estimated €14 million, the company has announced. Multiple strikes from staff took place, in protest about pay and working conditions, but even just the threat of a strike had an impact on the airline’s finances...

Brussels has collected more than 700 tonnes of aid for Palestinians through a recent campaign that will continue until 5 May. A centre at Brussels Expo Palace 1 is collecting items such as sleeping bags, powdered milk and hygiene products, which will then be sent to Gaza. Organisers have already...

Some Brussels residents have mistaken an official mobility survey – which promises financial compensation for completion – as a scam. The survey was sent via mail and said that those who complete it will receive €30, but participants are also being asked to provide a bank account number, which...