Anti-sexism organisation Rosa took to the street in front of N-VA’s Brussels’ office this week to protest the party’s stand on a potential change to the abortion law in Belgium. A similar protest was staged in Antwerp. The difference of opinion on the abortion amendment has delayed talks to form a...

Children who struggle with maintaining a healthy weight can now get reimbursed by their health insurance for appointments with nutritionists. This was previously only available to adults. Federal health insurance agency Inami will cover 10 sessions with a nutritionist over a two-year period for...

Two residents of Brussels are working to save the Hotel Métropole from becoming an office building or a hotel chain. Benoît Vanparijs and Alexandre Lodzia Brodzki have been largely ignored by the current owners but are not giving up without a fight. The landmark historical hotel on Place De...

OK, so your kids have been home a lot this year. We offer our sympathy – and this awesome idea for a fun summer outing. The Underground Treasure Hunt finds your kids helping “little Charles V” to recover the code that will open his treasure chest. They must search for clues and solve puzzles in the...

Leuven is a diverse city with an academic bent. The full name of the little statue standing in front of the monumental Saint-Peter’s church is Fons Sapientiae, Latin for ‘source of wisdom’. Fonske represents a student at the largest and oldest university of the Low Countries, KU Leuven, merging the...

Two weeks after allowing bikes on Belgian trains free of charge, the SNCB has announced new restrictions because the measure proved too popular. Non-folding bicycles will not be allowed from 18 July to 30 August on trains arriving at the Belgian coast before 13.00 each day. The new rule also...

More people are considering a flu jab this year than in previous years, according to a survey carried out by Mensura, an expertise centre in workplace health and safety. Mensura director Gretel Schrijvers calls it “the corona effect” and notes that if infections of Covid-19 continue in an upward...

Brussels environment minister Alain Maron (Ecolo) has announced that a new department is being put together to carry out pest control in the region. The department would be charged with the management of pigeons and stray cats, for instance, but mostly rats. The common rat, or brown rat ( Rattus...

While some of us are old enough to remember the tell-tale ping-ping sounds of the pinball machine in our local bowling alley or arcade, others of us are invited to discover the pre-1990s craze when the new Brussels Pinball Museum opens in Brussels in a few weeks. The name suggests you can only look...

Belgium's data protection authority has fined Google a record €600,000 for failing to comply with a European privacy law commonly known as the "right to be forgotten". The regulator said Google had been "particularly negligent" when it refused a request to delete links in its search engine to...