The facelift for the front facade of Brussels’ Justice Palace has begun, with works expected to take around two years to complete. The renovation comes at a cost of €31.7 million, according to Mathieu Michel, secretary of state for the federal buildings agency, the Régie des Bâtiments. Visitors and...

WALLONIA The 1944-45 Battle of the Bulge, as it’s familiarly known, scarred the province of Luxembourg in the south of the country. The key commemorative site is the Bastogne War Museum , which lies on the outskirts of the Ardennes town alongside the Mardasson Memorial that honours fallen and...

After months of strikes and criticism that switching its stores to a franchise model will result in a major blow to workers’ rights and both work and social conditions, Delhaize is moving ahead with the change. Four Delhaize shops in Brussels (Hankar, Mutsaard, Flagey and Boondael) are among the...

The mother of a baby abandoned in a laundrette in Anderlecht last week has been found and arrested after a man claiming to be the child’s father went to the police. Last Saturday, a woman with a three-month-old baby in a grey pram entered a launderette on Rue de la Clinique shortly before 17.00...

For the third time this summer, Ryanair pilots operating from Brussels South Charleroi Airport are to go on strike. The low-cost airline is still refusing to respond to pilots demands, according to unions. This new action on Monday 14 August and Tuesday 15 August follows two previous strikes on...

This autumn, flu vaccines will again be able to be given in pharmacies as well as by doctors, Belgian health minister Frank Vandenbroucke has confirmed. The aim is to increase vaccination coverage, which is still too low in Belgium, particularly for some at-risk groups, the minister said...

Last year, Brussels suffered the worst record for road accidents in at least 10 years, new figures from the Brussels Institute for Statistics and Analysis (IBSA) have revealed. After two calmer years during the pandemic, accidents have increased sharply in the Brussels region. IBSA noted 4,172...

Belgium is continuing to lose its cash machines at a frightening rate, according to figures gathered by L’Echo and De Tijd newspapers. More than 350 cashpoints have disappeared in a year - some 10% of the country's total - with Le Soir predicting that, by 2025, there will be 1,140 fewer ATMs than...

As the rain finally stops falling, Brussels hotels have still done well in July, according to the Brussels Hotels Association (BHA) – with an average occupancy rate of 68.7%. This represents a 1.5% increase over 2022 and only slightly less than the record year 2019 (74.7%), causing the sector to...