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Plans resurface for an outdoor pool in Brussels

Brussels, unlike just about all other European cities, has not had an outdoor swimming pool since the 1970s. This must change, according to Ecolo/Green party’s Benoît Hellings, responsible for sport at the City of Brussels. “With systematic periods of heat, we must guarantee access to water for...
Namur citadel

Summer staycation in Belgium: Namur

Its emblem may be the snail, but Namur has overhauled its reputation as a genteel city with an equally sedate nightlife. As the capital of Wallonia, an army of civil servants swarm daily into the capital of Wallonia. But once they leave their desks, it always seemed as though the lights went off in...

Nursing homes too strict on visiting, says Flemish health minister

The government of Flanders is concerned that residential care homes are being too cautious about visitors, restricting access even when the risk of spreading the coronavirus can be controlled. This leaves residents feeling unnecessarily isolated, says public health minister Wouter Beke (CD&V...

Manu De Mey - Disrupted Reality

Submitted by Xavier Huysmans on Tue, 08/25/2020 - 21:51


Le Neuf Gallery presents a selection of Manu De Mey’s most recent work.

You will discover a series of ambiguous portraits (paintings and drawings), mostly women. You are not sure if they are looking at a victim or an offender, at a master or a slave. But even in their most vulnerable expression, there is a strength that gets through their suppressed, controlled emotions. For sure, you can feel something is happening, deep inside of them.

Uccle seeks legal advice on plan to ban traffic in Bois de la Cambre

Uccle city council is not at all happy about Brussels-City toying with the idea of making Bois de la Cambre permanently car-free. The urban park is fully in Brussels-City’s territory, but the consequences of shutting it down to traffic would directly affect neighbouring Uccle. The avenues through...

Football fans to be let back into stadiums from September

Football fans will be let back into Belgian stadiums from 11 September, the Belgian Pro League has announced, although only at a fraction of the capacity. The agreement, hammered out by with the sports ministers from Flanders, Wallonia and Brussels, gives professional football clubs in the Pro...

Belgium rolls out two-factor authentication for online payments

Starting this Tuesday, all online payments above €1,500 will have to be carried out with a method known as two-factor authentication in an attempt to make internet shopping safer. Consumers will no longer be able to make expensive purchases by only relying on their credit card number and the...

400 salamanders rescued from rainwater reservoir

Not only were human beings affected by this month's intense heatwave: in the town of Wevelgem in West Flanders, hundreds of salamanders sought refuge in the rainwater reservoir of a residential construction project that turned out to be a deadly trap. Luckily, volunteer environmental organization...

First Belgian income tax bills being sent this week

Returning from holiday to find a letterbox full of mail? For half a million of us in Belgium, an income tax bill could be in that pile. The federal finance ministry is sending out the first batch of 2020 tax bills - based on your declared 2019 earnings - in the coming days. Seven million tax bills...

Shooting in Antwerp follows weekend of explosions

A home in Antwerp’s Deurne district was showered with bullets in the middle of the night in the latest in a series of incidents that occurred throughout the weekend. Police are investigating as to whether the five incidents involving gunfire and grenades are related. In the late hours of Friday...

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