Brussels public transport operator Stib has announced that it will test a hydrogen bus over the next two years to see what advantages the vehicle has over ordinary, hybrid and electric buses. The Stib will be renting the hydrogen bus from Belgian bus builder Van Hool. It will be tested on different...

Headlines around the world are dominated today by the protest in Washington, DC, which saw Trump supporters storming the capitol building, home to the Senate and House of Representatives that make up Congress. Protestors were able to break through local police lines and gain access to first the...

Any Belgian citizen applying for an identity card will now receive the new "eID", interior minister Annelies Verlinden announced on Wednesday. After a pilot project was launched in Lokeren in early 2020, other municipalities gradually followed suit, although the coronavirus crisis delayed the...

Some 110 patients have been recalled by St Vincent's Hospital in Antwerp (GZA group) following an error in disinfecting endoscopy equipment, the newspaper Gazet Van Antwerpen revealed on Wednesday. The error was detected during a quality check last October. The hospital discovered that mistakes had...

After suffering a burnout working in the European institutions, Dutch filmmaker Nadine van Loon has now made a documentary about how three women are currently managing the same pressures. Van Loon launched a campaign today to help cover post-production costs. Notes from Brussels features a top...

Bûûmplanters is once again asking residents of Brussels to donate their Christmas trees for replanting. The organisation is accepting trees at its location on Rue Navez in Schaerbeek on Saturday. Bûûmplanters is a non-profit that provides trees to residents to plant on their own properties and also...

The Brussels Council Chamber has decided that 10 of the 13 suspects of the Brussels attacks of 22 March 2016 will be referred to the Court of Assizes, the court dealing with the most serious crimes. The federal prosecutor’s office had requested that eight of the 13 accused be sent to the Court of...

An investigation has been launched by the Brussels public prosecutor’s office into the sex party involving Hungarian MEP József Szájer. Szájer, a member of Fidesz, the right-wing party led by Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban, was one of 25 people, mostly men, involved in the orgy held on the...

Three tons of food from retailers and restaurants in Brussels was binned in 2019 because it did not conform to safety regulations. Seventeen of the establishments had to close because of a risk to consumer health. Most troubling, according to the report released by food and hygiene inspection...

Mini-Europe might stay at the Heysel complex in Brussels after all, says its owner Thierry Meeùs. It was expected that the famous tourist attraction next to Kinepolis would close at the end of 2020, but that did not happen officially. Mini-Europe , a village of replicas of some of Europe’s most...