The Smurfs have been restored on the underside of the archway outside Central Station. Part of the surface of the mural of the Smurfs had fallen to the ground last year due to a water leak but has now been fully repaired. The mural of the Smurfs looks down on passers-by as they cross from Carrefour...

The military’s intelligence and security service (SGRS) made ‘serious errors’ in the Jürgen Conings case, says Committee I, the government commission that oversees the service. Moreover, the situation is emblematic of a broader problem with security services in Belgium, according to the committee...

Acclaimed Belgian choreographer Wim Vandekeybus, recently awarded the 2020 UK National Dance Award for best digital performance, is bringing his latest performance to KVS in Brussels for seven shows. Hands Do Not Touch Your Precious Me is a sometimes poetic, sometimes mysterious, sometimes gruesome...

The summer sales officially started on 1 July in Belgium and while reactions were mixed, surveys showed that traders enjoyed a 10% increase in business in comparison to the corresponding opening weekend in summer 2020 despite a slow start to shopping. The surveys were conducted by the SNI and UCM...

After a successful test weekend at the beginning of June, Belgian train operator SNCB now provides direct trains to and from the coast both on weekdays and on weekends. The Coast Express, which requires passengers to reserve in advance of travel, was launched on Saturday and will be available...

The Brussels-Capital Region has approved a new plan for the Josaphat site on the border between Schaerbeek and Evere that retains one hectare of the existing natural area and far less housing than previously proposed. Activists have been fighting for two years to get the region to scrap its plan...

With the opening of Werchter Parklife this week, summer music festivals have returned to Belgium. But with some of them cancelled, others postponed and others going ahead right when we expect them, it’s hard to keep track. Here’s a run-down of what, where and when in the music festival landscape...

If you’ve ‘been there, done that’ with Dinner in the Sky, move on to the next level of aerial eating: Dinner on the Wheel. Diners will find themselves riding the big wheel as they sup on star chef vittles. The big wheel known as The View will return to Place Poelaert this summer, and for nine days...

The clubs might still be closed, but Fuse is taking its techno beats back to Tour & Taxis for Plein Air again this summer. Every weekend in July, you are invited to open-air clubbing in the presence of food trucks, cocktails bars and the country’s best electronic musicians. The first two nights...