In light of the recent protests against sexual assault and abuse of women in Brussels, one of the capital’s police zones has announced that it will begin training specialised officers to deal with sex crimes and work with victims. However, the announcement by the Brussels-South police zone has been...

One of the immigrants taking shelter at the Church of Saint John the Baptist at the Beguinage in Brussels has begun a one-woman hunger strike in protest at what she says will be the rejection of her application for regularisation by the Immigration Office. According to the woman, an internal note...

An exhibition honouring Aborigine art has opened for the first time at Brussels’ Art & History Museum. Running until 29 May, Before Time Began was first staged at the Opale Fondation in Lens, Switzerland, and includes some 100 works from this previous show. The Brussels exhibition has added an...

About 300,000 people in Belgium of working age identified their main occupation last year as being a housewife, househusband or other stay-at-home caregiver – down from more than a million in 1986, new figures reveal. The analysis, in a new study by the Institute for Sustainable Development, is...

Self-employed workers in Belgium will soon be granted paid bereavement leave in the event of the death of a family member – as is already the case for employees and civil servants. Federal minister for the self-employed David Clarinval said Belgium’s council of ministers had approved the royal...

The City of Brussels is currently working on a commercial development plan for the central pedestrian zone, which will be presented by the year’s end, mayor Philippe Close has confirmed. He was responding to several municipal councillors, members of the opposition, who were concerned about a...

Average speed cameras on seven stretches of motorway in Belgium will now systematically operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week, justice minister Vincent Van Quickenborne has announced. The pilot project will see anyone travelling at 129 km/h or more, taking into account the technical margin of...

Young people aged 16 and 17 in Belgium will be able to vote in the next European elections. The federal council of ministers has approved the lowering of the minimum age to vote for EU representatives. Parliament must still vote on the issue. The minimum age to participate in EU elections in...

Brexit happened because there is no European Saturday Night Live . Picture it: A shared satire covering the ins and outs of the most diverse political machinery in the world would go a long way to introducing the masses to what the hell the EU is all about. Countries that are not laughing together...