“I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream…” As temperatures soar in Belgium, what better way to cool down than with a delicious scoop or two? One thing is certain, you will be spoilt for choice. Here’s a small selection of the cool delights you can find across the country. Brussels Each of...

What’s in a name? Well fooding – a mash of food and feeling – is the magic word that infuses the French culinary guide, founded in 2000. Now it has launched a Belgian Fooding edition, available in French and Dutch, that highlights 400 restaurants, bistros, bars, independent food stores and other...

Too few Brussels residents have a general practitioner or family doctor, according to the Belgian capital’s Common Community Commission (Cocom). While 70% of people in Wallonia and 86% of those living in Flanders have a GP they see regularly, just 64% of people in Brussels can say the same. The...

Heat records are being broken this week in Belgium as temperatures climb past 30°C in places. A 2006 record for the hottest 11 June (30.2°C) was broken on Sunday afternoon at 15.00, when the temperature climbed to 30.4°C at the Uccle station, eventually peaking at 31.2°C. The final reading for that...

Brussels Muzieque is marking the finale of its musical season with cello duo concerts at Le Baixu on 23 June and Full Circle on 25 June . The chamber music collective’s project to mark the end of its 2022-2023 season is a highly original programme for the string instrument. It consists of cello...

The Flemish part of the Sonian Forest could soon become a protected national park, while the parts of the forest located in Brussels and Wallonia will not. The Brabant Woods, which include the Sonian Forest, are candidates to be recognised with the special designation by Flanders, according to...

An Italian graduate who came to Brussels on an Erasmus study-abroad year has died in a house fire in Etterbeek over the weekend. The fire broke out at about 5.00 on Saturday morning, according to the Brussels fire brigade. “When the emergency services arrived, the fire appeared to be raging heavily...

Police from the Brussels-West police division (Molenbeek, Berchem-Saint-Agathe, Ganshoren, Jette and Koekelberg) are in the news again, following a drunken fight with Brussels schoolchildren. On 1 June, the police were on a kayaking trip down the Lesse river near Dinant. According to Sudinfo, the...

Organisers of three major music festivals in Belgium this summer have asked to be made exempt from new Europe-wide regulations on single-use plastic. Under European Union packaging rules, drinks should only be served in reusable cups, PET bottles and cans at festivals. This stricter legislation...

Brussels residents are moving one step closer to being able to travel from the city centre to Brussels Airport by tram, following the decision of Pascal Smet, Brussels state secretary for urbanism and heritage, to grant a permit to build a stretch of tramline between Nato/Eurocontrol and the...