Federal mobility minister Georges Gilkinet will explore the possibility of making all stations and their outdoor platforms non-smoking, he said on Monday, in response to the City of Mechelen's announced intention to work towards this target. "Stations must be safe and pleasant meeting places,”...

Brussels public transport provider Stib, the Flemish De Lijn bus service and the national rail operator SNCB are all adapting their services for the upcoming Ascension weekend, while Bpost will close its post offices on Thursday and Friday. Belgian banks will also keep their doors closed during...

Belgian traffic institute Vias has created a list of the deadliest streets in Brussels in terms of traffic accidents. At the top of the list is the Boulevard du Jardin Botanique, part of Brussels’ inner ring road. Vias looked at the number of accidents on Brussels roads in which people died or were...

The titan arum, otherwise known as the corpse flower, at the Meise Botanic Garden is expected to bloom this week. While it only blooms for 72 hours, it’s not called a corpse flower because it lies dormant the rest of the year. It’s called a corpse flower because of its smell. That’s not the only...

Before we had the Sustainable Development Goals, we had the Millennium Development Goals, a number of targets to reach by the year 2015. It was during this period that two Brussels filmmakers were working with the European institutions to produce documentary projects about the goals. But as they...

About 60 people, according to estimates released by the Brussels-Ixelles police, symbolically reopened the ramps of the Brussels Justice Palace to traffic during a demonstration against the city’s parking policy on Saturday morning. The protesters were mainly made up of shop owners and workers from...

A wave of fraudulent text messages attributed to Bpost, the Belgian postal service, have been circulating since Saturday, the company admitted after receiving several complaints. People have been receiving as many as four messages in a short period of time, all claiming to have been sent from Bpost...

Sports collective #balancetonsport has published an open letter, co-signed by high-level sportsmen and women and academic and associative supporters, denouncing the spotlight focused almost exclusively on male athletes, wage inequalities and gender-based and psychological violence. Lola Mansour,...

Four Belgian MPs are tabling bills in parliament to amend the Civil Code to ban so-called educational corporal punishment such as slapping or spanking. According to a March 2020 poll, three out of four Belgians are in favour of such a provision. The Belgian section of the organisation Défense des...

In a bid to make the commemorations of the bicentenary of the death of Napoleon accessible to all, the Wellington Museum in Waterloo is presenting an exhibition entirely made of customised Playmobil figures. There is a large model, approximately seven metres by five, evoking the battle of Waterloo...