German supermarket chain Lidl wants to revamp its 310 Belgian stores, giving them all an identical look and layout. With this change, the company hopes to increase staff efficiency as well as making the shopping experience easier for the customer. The supermarket chain is going for a "...

Major renovation works have begun on the Vilvoorde viaduct, the stretch of the Brussels ring road that crosses the canal. The project is expected to cost an estimated €435 million and last about eight years. The viaduct, 1.7km long and 35 meters high, was designed in the 1970s and opened to car...

Belgium's federal health minister Frank Vandenbroucke is calling for stricter rules to ensure doctors speak their patients' language properly. Vandenbroucke is drawing up new regulations to that end, saying that the number of foreign doctors practising medicine in Belgium has passed the 10,000 mark...

Belgium is set to issue new one-year bonds in its next round of federal fundraising, offering a 2.8% yield rate. The bonds will be available for purchase from 24 August, and these will be the first Belgian state bonds with a one-year maturity – most state bonds mature in three, five, eight, or 10...

The Brussels municipality of Saint-Josse will be hosting a horse race on 16 September, transforming the area around the neighbourhood’s square into a course in which 16 horses and their riders will compete. The event comes complete with a bookie for taking sports bets, but the Belgian capital’s...

More trains will run between Antwerp and Brussels from September in a resumption of previous levels of service. Belgian railway company SNCB reduced IC connections between the two cities due to staff shortages back in early 2022. But from 4 September onwards, four IC trains an hour will once again...

Belgian Beer World will finally be opening next month in Brussels' former stock exchange building, the Bourse, two months later than planned. The reasons for the delay are not yet clear, but the 1 July opening did not come to fruition and 9 September will be the opening weekend for the museum...

Belgium’s railway operator SNCB is calling for an immediate plan to improve the "dramatic" public safety situation around Brussels-Midi station in the capital. “The SNCB has neither the resources nor the powers to take on this problem alone,” its managing director Sophie Dutordoir wrote in a letter...

Belgians are the richest people in the world, according to new figures from Crédit Suisse's Global Wealth Report, which put the median wealth of Belgian residents at €228,594. This means that half of Belgian adults have a net worth - assets such as property, savings, shares or bonds - of more than...