A firefighter died on Wednesday morning during an intervention against a fire on the construction site of the former Sheraton Hotel in Place Rogier, said Brussels firefighters. The blaze broke out around 3:30 in a technical room, reports RTBF. Almost 300 residents of the nearby Thon hotel were...

Brussels has decided to end the indiscriminate parking of self-service e-scooters. The deputies of the regional parliament voted last week to create dedicated parking zones around the city which will be enforced under threat of sanction to the scooter operators. Some municipalities have already...

Among the thousands of refugees arriving in Belgium from Ukraine are a number of students, but not all of them have Ukrainian nationality. The country was a popular destination for foreign students. As many fled following the Russian invasion, stories are now emerging of discrimination and racism...

Staff working for the EU institutions have dug deep into their own pockets to donate around €200,000 for a new emergency fund for Ukraine. Set up days after Russia’s invasion of its neighbour, civil servants in the Commission, Council, Parliament, and EU agencies have rushed aid to those in the...

French-speaking schools in Wallonia and Brussels will have a new school calendar following reforms by the Wallonia-Brussels Federation, although opponents are likely to request for a postponement to the changes due to be introduced for the next school year. The changes are intended to bring the...

The Belgian government held a restricted committee meeting on Monday evening to decide upon new measures meant to tackle the ongoing energy crisis, including a €200 household credit and extension and expansion of the current VAT reduction. The government announced the measures in a press conference...

Physical violence between drivers in Belgium has increased over the past five years, according to the Vias Institute road safety association which released a report on Monday based on a survey about aggression and irritating behaviour in traffic. The survey, for which Vias questioned a thousand...

The Federal Buildings Authority, the body in charge of Belgium’s real estate portfolio, will make its unoccupied properties available to the city’s municipalities to help them accommodate Ukrainian refugees, secretary of state Mathieu Michel announced on Monday. In the short term, to alleviate the...

More than a year after a resolution was adopted with the intent of improving the relationship between the police and the people of Brussels, an organised discussion with community members revealed that ethnic profiling remains a significant issue. Twenty-five young people from Brussels and two...