Sky high drinking spaces are all the rage but they’re also dependent on good weather to draw summer crowds. The recent spate of rain showers and strong winds has been damaging business at many a rooftop bar around the country. In Brussels, more and more stylish panoramic bars are popping up above...

The fees charged by banks and other credit providers to apply for a mortgage will be capped at €350 from next year. The new cap applies from 1 January 2024, a decrease from the current maximum application fee of €500. The move was announced by Belgium’s minister of economy and employment Pierre-...

Passengers on the Brussels metro network are breathing substantially cleaner air than in Paris, according to new data provided by Brussels public transport operator Stib. Stib carried out eight-hour tests in three metro stations - Vandervelde, Ribaucourt and Gare du Midi. Brussels mobility minister...

Belgium’s consumer rights organisation Test-Achats has launched an attack on Belgian banks' savings accounts and their dismal interest rates. Calling them a "legal scam", the consumer group said the interest rates offered to customers are far less generous than they actually appear. In the past few...

BRUSSELS An eagerly awaited newcomer is Bar Tope (meaning, appropriately, ‘summit’ in Spanish) at the Hoxton hotel in the Tour Victoria (the former home of IBM). Located behind the Botanique, it affords a panoramic view of the city. Tope’s terrace area will remain open until September. Soko Rooftop...

Brussels public transport operator Stib has announced that people working in the non-profit caregiving sector in the city will in future get free travel on its network. The Brussels government said it would make public transport free of charge for employees in various care professions from...

A new study on the high environmental impact of Tomorrowland, the annual music festival held in Belgium, has found it emits as much CO2 in two weeks as 9,000 households in one year. Tapio, a Belgian company that calculates carbon footprints, conducted a study to assess the impact of Tomorrowland...

Ixelles mayor Christos Doulkeridis (Ecolo) has this week joined the team of volunteers helping people escape raging forest fires on the Greek island of Rhodes. His decision came as at least 20,000 people from the south-east of the island were ordered to leave their homes, according to the Greek...

The urban holiday festivity Summer Wonders rolls on with its programme of live music, DJ sets, afterwork events and sports activities. It’s located in Place De Brouckère and Place Fontainas, with a large-scale art installation evoking an exotic garden gracing the latter square. A range of food and...

The first fully electric waste collection truck in Belgium is now in service in northern Brussels, Bruzz reports. It has been collecting rubbish in the neighbourhood of Neder-Over-Heembeek since the beginning of July, according to Bruxelles Propreté, the capital’s waste collection company. While...