Due to the pandemic, the Brussels Design September festival will, both in its presentation and its content, be breaking new ground this year. The health crisis has focused people on family, on the importance of health, on thinking about which values are truly important. With this in mind, the BDS...

In a normal year, the Brussels Short Film Festival (BSFF) takes place in April/May and the Brussels International Film Festival (BRIFF) takes place in June. But this is not a normal year. The festivals’ organisers have adapted both events to 2020’s special circumstances. Now the festivals are...

Shoe retailer Brantano has reinforced security at its stores after crowds of customers rushed to buy heavily discounted stock as the firm entered administration. Police were called out to four stores this weekend amid reports of long queues and overcrowding, in breach of the coronavirus...

Dozens of people with partners who live abroad protested outside of the federal foreign affairs office on Rue de Louvain in Brussels on Sunday morning. They are angry about what they see as an arbitrary time period put on relationships that fall under the new coronavirus measure. Last week the...

The managing director of Charleroi-based virtual reality production company KeyWall – part of 100 employee-strong DreamWall Media Solutions – first built a virtual studio for broadcaster RTBF in 2005. Now, the company has an international reputation for cutting-edge virtual studios and sets that...

The Brussels region wants to create an inventory of all of its underground spaces, which could potentially be used to respond to population growth and urban densification. Brussels MP Gaëtan Van Goidsenhoven raised the subject after reviewing examples from abroad in which underground spaces are...

Up to 200 people, mostly women, demonstrated on Saturday evening in Saint-Gilles in front of the police station and the borough hall to protest alleged violence by police officers against three women. Chanting "Shut up, my body, my choice" and "Skimpily dressed and hysterical", the demonstrators...

Police in Anderlecht have begun using drones to supervise the crowds at the Sunday market at the Abattoir for any breaches of the coronavirus rules. The market, which is 25 acres, has a number of visitors limited to 3,200 - but there are only 14 police officers on duty. Anderlecht mayor Fabrice...

City kids who grow up with lots of green space in their neighbourhoods will be smarter and better behaved than those surrounded by concrete, according to a study carried out by researchers at Hasselt and Ghent universities. The study is thought to be the first to seek an association between green...

From the director-general of the federal police to the Human Rights League, Belgian authorities have expressed shock and disgust at the video footage that has emerged of Charleroi Airport police subduing a passenger, who eventually died. The incident happened more than two years ago, leading some...