The public prosecutor in Antwerp has opened an investigation into the levels of the chemical PFOS found in the soil and water around the 3M plant in Zwijndrecht. While many politicians, environmentalists and water management experts have long known that the soil around the plant was contaminated...

Three municipalities in the Brussels region have worked together on new recommendations to control the spread of co-living in the city. The City of Brussels, Ixelles and Saint-Gilles want to curb the phenomenon in which entire houses are furnished for young cohabiting professionals as they say it...

Around 40 people occupied the lobby of the Office for Immigration building in Brussels on Tuesday afternoon, in support of the 475 undocumented immigrants who have been on hunger strike for a month. Some of the protestors inside the lobby chained themselves to fixtures while a larger group,...

A Belgian man has been effectively held hostage by authorities in Dubai for nearly a year, according to a report by VRT. Reporters with Radio 2 had difficulties getting a hold of the man from Dilbeek but were finally able to speak to him recently via Whatsapp. Last year, Johan Daumerie had a...

Price trends for apartments in Brussels suggest that an east-west socio-economic divide is a relatively new phenomenon. According to the Brussels Institute for Statistics and Analysis, the cheapest prices for flats used to be east of the canal. The institute tracked prices paid for flats in all of...

Residents and traders on the Rue François Vekemans in Neder-Over-Heembeek protested against a proposed tram line that would connect the municipality with the centre of Brussels at the weekend. The new tram line would pass, among other things, the Docks Bruxsel shopping centre and the Brussels North...

‎On the day that the walls of the metro tunnel between the Parc and Arts-Loi stations in Brussels were lit up in red in support of the Belgium national football team, the Red Devils secured their place in the knockout stages of the European Championships with victory over Finland on Monday night...

Half of young women living in Belgian cities alter the way they use public space in order to avoid being sexually intimidated, harassed or assaulted. The figures comes from Plan International Belgium, which is taking part in the Safer Cities project. The local chapter of Plan International, which...

Former secretary-general of the EU Commission and EU ambassador to the United States, David O’Sullivan, has been appointed to the board of governors of the King Baudouin Foundation (KBF), Belgium’s leading philanthropy institution announced on Friday. O’Sullivan becomes the first non-Belgian to sit...

The crowdfunding campaign Zuur in support of Brussels bars shut during the coronavirus crisis has raised €683,000. Everyone who contributed has a bottle of Zuur beer coming, brewed specially for the campaign. The Brussels-based organisation Growfunding launched the Zuur initiative back in February...