Whether cheese is your lunchtime staple, preferred aperitif snack or the star ingredient in your favourite dishes, it’s deliciously easy to explore the world of cheese making and maturing in Belgium. The country continues to experience an explosion in hand-made quality dairy produce with hundreds...

The Court of Audit has issued a rather scathing review of Brussels Mobility, the agency that manages transport policy and infrastructure in the capital-region. According to the court, not only does Brussels Mobility not know the state of the region’s roadways at any given time, it does not know the...

Multidisciplinary is the key word for a lot of local productions over the last decade, with live classical music giving dance a new impetus, for instance, or video offers theatre companies more options to transport you to other worlds. This mixing of artistic disciplines is also at the heart of the...

According to staff working for the Flemish department of the environment, the multinational conglomerate 3M got away with poisoning the soil and waterways because of corruption within the department. The public prosecutor in Antwerp has opened an investigation into the levels of the chemical PFOS...

Brussels public transport operator Stib has warned that "very few" bus, tram and metro services will run on Friday, with "severe disruption" to the network as staff take part in a nationwide cross-sector day of strike action . Anyone travelling on Friday should check the Stib's website and social...

When Dominic Newstead ( pictured below ) arrived at St Paul’s Tervuren during the Covid pandemic, he drew on 25 years’ experience leading inter-generational church in the UK and mainland Europe to overcome the challenges of confinement. The British-French national has a particular interest in the...

The Brussels-based Italian photographer Massao Mascaro spent four years following the mythical route of Odysseus in the Mediterranean sea to compare today’s reality with yesterday’s fantasies. The result is the series Sub Sole (Latin for ‘under the sun’), which reveals the ambiguity of a sea that...

Independent chauffeurs with an LVC licence, working for companies such as Uber and Heetch, want to have the same rights and obligations as taxi drivers in Brussels, according to a survey carried out by the Uber platform. Some 80% of respondents want a single status for both sectors, as is the case...

The new bicycle street on Avenue Louise has been open for a month now, but traffic signs indicating that bikes have priority have yet to be installed and cars are still dominating the lane. "Transit traffic is particularly problematic,” said Florine Cuignet of cyclists' union GRACQ. “The amount of...

The first bank-neutral cash machines have been installed, one of them in Anderlecht. Eventually these machines, sporting the simple name Bancontact, will replace all of the ATMs of Belgium’s four largest banks. The banks – BNP Paribas, KBC, Belfius and ING – co-founded the company Batopin to...