If legal and professional disputes are already an emotional minefield, they risk being even more of a lengthy, stressful and expensive ordeal when the parties have a multicultural background. With Mediation Week currently being staged in Belgium, The Bulletin talks to the multidisciplinary and...

Brussels state secretary for urbanism and heritage Pascal Smet has urged mobility minister Georges Gilkinet to keep the wooden benches in the city’s North train station. Salvage company Rotor DC , which saved the benches from demolition, has agreed to stop selling them off until the public debate...

Etterbeek has decided to name the square in front of its city hall after Mahsa Amini, reports RTBF. It follows an initiative by the municipality’s social action alderwoman, Maryam Matin Far, who’s originally from Iran. Amini is the 22-year-old Kurdish woman who died in police custody in Tehran on...

The ongoing energy crisis, coupled with rising inflation, has prompted a cost-of-living crisis for many residents of Belgium that has led to growing numbers of people giving up their pets. Animal shelters across the country are having to turn away more animals because their beds are full, shelter...

About 100 Brussels residents slept on a cold floor in a large open room in Tour & Taxis in order to better understand the struggles of homeless people. The initiative comes from the non-profit organisation Infirmiers de Rue, which aimed to raise awareness about homelesness ahead of winter,...

Continuing its commitment to showing both surrealist and major 20th-century international artists, BAM (Beaux-Arts Mons) presents Joan Miró: The Essence of Past and Present Things . Curated by British art historian Victoria Noel-Johnson, some 100 paintings, prints, sculpture and ceramics show Miró’...

If anyone thought the coronavirus pandemic was over, KU Leuven medical professor and microbiologist Emmanuel André would like to set the record straight. André, who is in charge of Belgium’s National Reference Lab for Covid-19, tweeted a warning this week that the autumn wave of the virus "will not...

As restaurants grapple with soaring energy prices alongside Belgian households, some have taken to charging customers an extra fee to help cover the costs. Diners across Belgium have reported being asked to pay an additional few euros on their bills at various restaurants, including in Brussels and...

A 1970s cinema that once occupied a building on Rue de l'Arbre Bénit in Ixelles is being resurrected for a third time, now with hopes of becoming a cultural centre for the neighbourhood. The market for cinemas was difficult even before the coronavirus pandemic saw a total shutdown of the cultural...

Not long after the Flemish parliament imposed a rent freeze for tenants of poorly insulated housing, the Brussels region has reached a similar agreement for the residents in the capital. The measure will forbid landlords from raising rent until energy efficiency is achieved, with the aim of better...