The public prosecutor has asked that Glenn Audenaert, the former director of the federal police, be brought up on charges of accepting bribes, money laundering, breach of confidentiality and forgery. Audenaert was the police commissioner for about 12 years, until he resigned in 2012. Audenaert, 65...

The coronavirus crisis has made the last year challenging in many ways, not least of all in buying a home. While the market ended 2020 with pretty average figures compared to previous years, the fluctuations were enormous, providing extra challenges to buyers and property professionals. “We were...

Yesterday was the warmest day in March ever measured in Belgium, but today could very well break that record. On Tuesday, the official high at the Royal Meteorological Institute in Uccle was 23.9°C. That is the warmest any day in March has ever been since records began being kept in 1892. The...

Belgium may have a Unesco-recognised beer culture, but until now, it hasn't had a beer spa, something that has long existed in other well-known brewing regions such as the Czech Republic or Germany. But this is all about to change when not one, but two beer spas will open in Brussels once the...

It’s pretty hard at the moment to be sure who is who when you pass someone in the street, what with facemasks making it more difficult to identify people. You could be walking past the Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium (KMSKB), for example, and see a man you think you might recognise from his...

Three hospitals in Belgium have made Newsweek ’s list of the best 200 general hospitals in the world. Saint-Luc University Hospital in Woluwe-Saint-Lambert is one of them. The World’s Best Hospital ranking lists the best hospitals in 25 countries in North and South America, Europe and Asia. The...

How would you like that 15-minute walk from Botanique to Central Station to be through a forest? That will eventually be reality as landscape architects Bureau Bas Smets reveal their master plan for Slopes of the Pentagon. The bureau is working with Brussels-City to create an ‘urban forest’ that...

The Hôtel Hannon in Saint-Gilles will be reborn as a museum at the end of February 2022, after its restoration is complete. The building, a classic example of Art Nouveau architecture, will reopen as the Hannon Museum. Commissioned by the engineer Edouard Hannon and built in 1902 by the architect...

The Brussels prosecutor's office has decided to dismiss the case opened against József Szájer for drug possession after the Hungarian MEP was detained having fled from a sex party in November, it was reported on Monday. The investigation, which was launched in early January, focused on the drug...

Growing Belgian endive – known as chicon in French and witloof in Dutch – is now recognised cultural heritage in Brussels. The “white gold” is in season now, though in Brussels it’s grown on a very small scale. To be clear, it’s the chicon pleine terre – endive grown in the ground – that is...