The municipality of Ixelles is launching a large-scale campaign to combat the spread of the Asian hornet in Brussels. As part of the campaign, local residents can pick up free selective traps at the Malibran community centre. “The coming weeks will be decisive in limiting the spread this season,”...

An iconic Irish pub in Brussels, De Valera’s, will reopen under new management after closing its doors at the start of the year, local sources have confirmed. The pub, located near Place Flagey, closed at short notice on 1 January. The closure followed financial and operational pressures that have...

Animal welfare group Gaia and the Fur Free Alliance have held a demonstration outside the Berlaymont, the headquarters of the European Commission in Brussels, calling for an immediate EU wide ban on the production and sale of fur. The protest, attended by activists and supporters, urged the...

Amid ongoing controversy over his outspoken comments about Belgian politicians, US ambassador Bill White has given more details about his plans for a large-scale party in Brussels this summer to celebrate America's 250th anniversary. The event in Cinquantenaire Park will be an invitation-only event...

Four years to the day after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Cinquantenaire Arch in Brussels was illuminated in the colours of the Ukrainian flag on Tuesday evening. Belgium’s foreign minister Maxime Prévot said of the fateful anniversary: “Four years ago, Russia launched a full-scale invasion...

If the ever-resonating myth of Beauty and the Beast originates from antiquity, it was in the Renaissance that these two contradictory ideals were vividly interpreted by artists. Bozar’s flagship exhibition of the season, Bellezza e Bruttezza. The Ideal, the Real and the Caricature in the...

Brussels is home to many layered identities and overlapping histories, which is why Marie Zolamian’s exhibition Confabulations finds a fitting home at WIELS Contemporary Art Center. Showing work from the past two decades of her career, it includes notable projects creating sequences of images for...

The Atomium will file a legal complaint after two men carried out an illegal base jump from the iconic Brussels landmark last week. The parachute jump, which took place at night, has prompted the monument’s management to tighten security and launch a full review of safety procedures. The video was...

The new Brussels government has greed to allocate €56 million to pay outstanding Renolution premiums to almost 2,700 Brussels households awaiting them this year. The Renolution grants were subsidies promised to Brussels residents who renovated their homes to be more energy-efficient, but the budget...

Anderlecht has overtaken Schaerbeek as Brussels’ second most-populated municipality after the City of Brussels, new figures reveal. The change is due to a drop in the number of inhabitants in Schaerbeek over the past 10 years and strong population growth in Anderlecht, Bruzz reports. In no other...