Three Brussels mayors are calling for action to protect pedestrians walking the city’s famous Green Walk (Promenade Verte) - as increasing number of cyclists take to the path. The mayors of three communes - Auderghem, Woluwé-Saint-Pierre and Woluwé-Saint-Lambert – have been asking the Brussels...

People with reduced mobility will find it easier to independently board Belgian trains sooner than anticipated as Belgian railway company SNCB speeds up the adaptation of its stations to make them fully accessible. In a bid to increase opportunities for independent travel for disabled and elderly...

The Brussels regional government has approved a grant of €60,000 for the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) to develop an alternative method to animal testing. The funding will go to VUB’s Innovation Centre-3Rs (IC-3Rs), which is working on alternatives based on stem cells derived from human skin...

As we all know by now, four Flemish parties and three French-speaking parties formed a federal government last week, 16 months after the 2019 elections. Why does it always take so long? Because hammering out a government accord that everyone can agree on when Flanders votes right and Wallonia votes...

An entire street of residents in Wuustwezel, in the far north of Antwerp province, has decided to learn sign language in order to be able to talk to six-year-old neighbour Wout. The neighbours are taking a collective class – and got many other members of the community to sign up, too. “We really...

The first batch of 20,000 free tourist passes made available on Monday morning by the tourist promotion office in Wallonia we're taken in less than half an hour, confirmed Pierre Coenegrachts, the deputy general manager of Wallonia Belgium Tourism. Wallonia is issuing 60,000 of the tourist passes...

Belgian retailers, the Colruyt Group, have announced that they have established an operating company called Agripartners to further develop the group's existing farmland and acquire new cultivation areas. The announcement has caused quite a stir in the agricultural world and led to protests from...

After almost 12 years on an industrial estate on the outskirts of the city, The Bulletin has this week moved into new offices in the heart of Brussels. The team at Ackroyd Publications - which publishes The Bulletin, Flanders Today, WAB and Expat Time - settled on Monday morning into a new home on...

After two years of renovation and redevelopment, Rue Neuve – the best known and busiest pedestrian street in Belgium - was officially reopened at the weekend. The inauguration ceremony to reopen the famous commercial thoroughfare was conducted by Brussels mayor Philippe Close and Karine Lalieux,...

A new crisis centre has opened in an undisclosed location in Brussels, to allow the authorities to co-ordinate their response in emergency situations such as a terrorist attack. The control centre will also monitor major events planned in the capital such as demonstrations, high-level political...