Only 18% of internships in Belgium are paid, making it the worst country in Europe when it comes to exploitation of young people through unpaid work, according to a Eurobarometer survey. The European Youth Forum (YFG) lodged a Collective Complaint against Belgium in 2017, prompting an investigation...

The 5th edition of BRIDGES. East of West Film Days at Bozar honours contemporary cinema from Georgia and Ukraine. Some 30 years after the collapse of the Soviet Bloc, the two countries remain largely absent from the big screen. Yet both are active in the film world and offer their own particular...

A new recording studio has recently opened its doors in the heart of the Marolles district in Brussels. The studio has been created to provide the young people and residents of the neighbourhood with the opportunity to explore music and sound creation. The idea is to provide the people of the...

The Belgian real estate market boom of 2021 has led to surge in house prices which is set to continue into this year, according to a report by the National Bank of Belgium. “Residential property price growth reached 8.5% in the first three quarters of 2021 compared to the same period in 2020,” the...

The number of beggars in stations on the Brussels Stib/Mivb network increased by 171% between 2020 and 2021. There were 456 beggars counted between January and October of last year (the usual recording period for such figures), compared to 168 in 2020, Bruzz reports. The figures come from...

Although a four-day work week was part of Belgium’s new labour package , not everyone will be able to take advantage of the flexibility that comes with an extra day off. Civil servants, for one, won’t be allowed to squeeze their normal working hours into four longer work days instead of five...

Deliveroo, the online food delivery platform, reacted favourably to the labour deal which was struck by the Belgian federal government on Tuesday, saying that the imposition of new obligations on ‘gig economy’ platforms such as theirs would "enable riders to continue working with the flexibility...

Several organisations have voiced their opposition to a third amendment to the Regional Zoning Plan for the Neo project on the Heysel plateau. They claim that the mobility plans put forward for the new district, which will include a 72,000 square-metre shopping centre, would create more problems...

The four lanes of Brussels thoroughfare Rue Belliard will go down to three in order to make room for widened sidewalks and bike lanes on each side, facilitating safer and easier access for both pedestrians and cyclists. The initiative is a pilot project designed to test the impact of such a measure...