The Brussels Taxi Federation will take legal action to overturn the government’s decision to allow Uber drivers to return to work. The Brussels government approved an emergency decree on Saturday that should allow Uber to resume its operations in the capital some two weeks after the Court of Appeal...

Pig farmers from Flanders are driving their tractors en masse to Brussels on 15 December to demand that the Flemish government intervene to help their sector, which is in crisis. The tractors will ride into Brussels from various regions and gather around the Flemish parliament building on Rue de...

Belgian rail operator SNCB has adapted its schedule, which will see a few more services in Brussels. Several more towns and cities in Flanders will have direct lines to Brussels. The S8 line from Louvain-la-Neuve to Brussels South is being extended to Flanders, passing through the new Anderlecht...

The Flemish Road Safety Agency (AWV) is ready to install and maintain a rainbow pedestrian crossing in every city in Flanders, if requested by the local authorities. The AWV will also be responsible for the costs of installing and maintaining the crossings, Flemish Mobility Minister Lydia Peeters...

The ORIG-AMI initiative, now in its fifth consecutive year, has set itself the objective of distributing between 500 to 1,000 cardboard tents and as many sleeping bags to the homeless in Belgium’s main cities this winter, the project’s organisers said in a statement on Friday. Last year, with help...

A proposal to uncover part of Brussels' buried Senne river has received preliminary approval from the City of Brussels and the region. As this 150th anniversary of the burying of the Senne through downtown Brussels comes to a close, it has been announced that Maximilian Park will undergo a major...

Myria, the federal body in charge of migration, has found shortcomings in the formalities for European Union citizens registering in Belgian municipalities according to the results of a new study. The research, called Settling in Belgium as an EU citizen, has issued several recommendations to...

The extension of Brussels' tram line 9 north-west of the capital has been completed and it now connects Simonis to the Roi Baudouin station, near the Heysel plateau, in 20 minutes. The route serves the centre of Jette, the Square du Centenaire, UZ Brussel and the Cité Modèle. Open to the public as...

In 2012, Nadine Van Loon left her fast-paced, all-consuming job at foreign affairs in the Hague. It was a job that saw her spending time in the Brussels bubble, where she had started her career years before. The Dutch native returned to Brussels in the years that followed with her diplomat husband...

The Brussels parliament has passed an emergency ordinance in order to allow Uber drivers to get back behind the wheel on Saturday. A definitive taxi plan has also been approved but will take some time to be implemented as legislation. Last month a court of appeals in Brussels ruled that LVC...