Following the deaths of two sheep and a cow this week, the Farmers’ Union is asking that the government closely monitor the whereabouts of the wolves known to be living in Flanders. A new wolf arrived in Antwerp province this spring, bringing the number of adult wolves living in the region to three...

The government of the Brussels Capital-Region has earmarked €2.4 million for projects that promote sustainability, climate minister Alain Maron (Ecolo) has announced. Simultaneously, the Extinction Rebellion has announced a big climate march for 27 June. Maron ( pictured ) is calling for proposals...

J anssen Pharmaceutica, headquartered in Beerse, Antwerp province, will start testing a vaccine against Covid-19 next month. While parent company Johnson & Johnson will test the vaccine on volunteers in the US, Janssen will do the same in Flanders. If everything runs smoothly with the clinical...

Colruyt has introduced removable plastic hand grips for its grocery carts so it can stop paying an employee to disinfect cart handles. Supermarkets have been required to disinfect grocery cart handles since the start of the lockdown in Belgium to control the spread of the coronavirus. By the end of...

The response to Belgian artist Charles Kaisin’s Origami for Life action was overwhelming, with more than 20,000 people carefully following the instructions and sending in their origami bird to Kanal Centre Pompidou. Foundations and private concerns put up a collective €5 for every bird received,...

Prince Joachim of Belgium has been fined €10,400 by Spanish authorities for breaking the country's stay-at-home rules by attending a party with 26 other people. The 28-year-old made headlines earlier this month when it emerged he had attended a private party with friends and family in Andalucia on...

Seven human rights organisations in Belgium are co-operating on a campaign targeted at ending ethnic profiling in police departments. The campaign describes the experiences people of colour have on a daily basis and asks for transparency and the ability for victims of ethnic profiling to file a...

The statue of Leopold II in Place Trône in Brussels ( pictured ) has once again been defaced, in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protest on Sunday and demands to remove public statues of the colonial king. There was already graffiti on the statue from Sunday’s protest, but now a great deal more...

About 100,000 TUI Belgium customers have had their summer holiday plans thrown into doubt, after the tour operator cancelled hundreds of flights. The firm announced it had revised its summer schedule because too many flights were under-capacity and no longer profitable. "Demand is much lower and we...

The maximum speed on the section of the ring road around Brussels (R0) that is situated in Flanders will be 100 km/hr starting on 1 September. That speed will replace all sections of the R0 where the speed limit is currently 120. The measure, planned in discussion with Brussels authorities, was...