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More violent protests against Good Move traffic plans for Brussels

Brussels’ traffic plan Good Move, which aims to adjust traffic routes and lower the amount of polluting vehicles in the city in an effort to combat high air pollution and traffic jams, has prompted violent resistance from some in the Belgian capital. Protests in the municipality of Schaerbeek...

The Bulletin at 60: Susan Carroll met friends for life, including her future husband!

The Bulletin was a great place to be as a young journalist totally new to Brussels (and not just for the legendary Christmas parties). For a local magazine, we had some brilliant writers on staff and freelance (including Marie Dumont, Jeremy Duns, John Miller, Deborah Forsyth, Alan Hope, Jonathan...
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The Bulletin at 60: From the archive (2004): The battle for Fontenoy

The tiny village in Hainaut slumbers in the morning sun. Once a great battle was fought in Fontenoy. Thousands of soldiers died here on 11 May 1745. Some of the words they exchanged on the battlefield have lived on through the years, though the war that they fought has largely been forgotten. These...

What’s on this week: 28 October to 3 November

Cinematek and Flagey are collaborating on a mega Halloween film feast. While Cinematek screens horror classics like the original Nosferatu and Hideo Nakata’s malevolent child heart-stoppers Ring and Dark Water , Flagey offers American quintessential viewing like Ghostbusters , A Nightmare on Elm...

Rubens and Breughel - a working friendship

Submitted by yttap on Thu, 10/27/2022 - 12:01

Peter Paul Rubens and Jan Breughel the Elder were the most successful painters in early 17th century Antwerp.

Talk in English by Jane Choy-Thurlow

Four-year-old girl left alone on school bus for seven hours

A four-year-old girl spent the day on a school bus in Alveringem, a municipality in West Flanders, after falling asleep on the bus and going unnoticed by the driver. The child spent around seven hours on the bus without food or water, Het Laatste Nieuws reports. “The journey itself only takes five...

Brussels prison staff strike over assaults and overcrowding

Staff at the Saint-Gilles prison have been on strike since Monday evening, with the action expected to last until at least Wednesday. Unions are not ruling out an extension of the strike, which is being held in response to what prison staff say are dangerous working conditions and overcrowding in...

Belgians go to court to demand better air quality standards

Fed up with a lack of government solutions or any seeming urgency on the matter, nine Belgians are taking the matter of the country’s air quality to court. The World Health Organisation tightened its standards last September when it comes to particulate matter in the air, lowering its advisory...

Belgium still below par in gender equality as Europe sees broader declines

When it comes to gender equity, Belgium lags behind some of its European peers but has made significant progress, new research has found. This is according to the 2022 Gender Equality Index from the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE), which ranks countries on a scale of 100 based on...

String Quartets for Two Cellos

Submitted by Full Circle on Tue, 10/25/2022 - 13:39

Brussels Muzieque invites you to a musical evening out of the usual canon. 

This concert features chamber music’s most canonic formation, the string quartet, in the highly unconventional setting of violin, viola and… two cellos!

Let yourself be surprised by string quartet No.2 in A minor by Anton Arenski in this unusual instrumentation. It gives the quartet a special emphasis around the mid and low frequencies, that dark but warm timbre reminiscent of Franz Schubert 's string quintet for two cellos. 

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