Ixelles meeting place See U, home to projects that promote sustainable and social innovation, is going ahead with its 1 Year See U anniversary party. Come along for some finger food, drinks and distance mingling. Be sure to reserve ahead of time as space is, naturally, limited. See U is also...

The City of Brussels is in negotiations with representatives from Black Lives Matter, over plans for a demonstration this Sunday in response to the death of George Floyd in the United States. More than 5,000 people on Facebook have registered to join a protest outside the Justice Palace on Sunday...

Everyone has been told to maintain a 1.5m distance when out and about, but has the message really got through? And if it has, how long will people follow the advice? This is what researchers at Antwerp University intend to find out, by applying artificial intelligence to crowds in the city’s Meir...

Two petitions to remove statues of King Leopold II are quickly gaining signatures. While one of them covers all monuments dedicated to Belgium’s former king in Brussels-City, the other is focused on one bust in Halle. The petitions have arrived in the wake of the #BlackLivesMatter movement, which...

Meals out, gym sessions and daytrips are back on the agenda , as Belgium will begin "phase 3" in the easing of its coronavirus restrictions from Monday 8 June, prime minister Sophie Wilmès has confirmed. The rules on social contacts outside your home have been eased. The previous rule of four...

Wearing a mask, no one can see you smile. So two Belgian entrepreneurs have come up with a solution. Charles de Bellefroid and Amaury de Broux are working with hospitals, businesses and individuals to supply personalised masks, printed with a photo of your smile. "We wanted to give people a smile...

Belgian rail operator SNCB has been fined €210,000 for exposing staff to a toxic substance for a year and a half, during renovation works. About 60 engineers had sued the company after they discovered in February 2016 that they had been exposed to chromium trioxide while they worked on renovating...

Some 39% of public transport users in Belgium do not want to get back on the metro, according to a study carried out by VUB. The university questioned commuters about their current and future modes of transport as the coronavirus measures are being relaxed. Brussels’ metro seems to be the greatest...

More than 6,000 people have signed an online petition calling on Belgian rail operator SNCB not to remove a piece of graffiti honouring George Floyd, the African-American whose death in police custody last week has sparked unrest in the United States. Images of the graffiti went viral over the...

A 13- year-old boy who was kidnapped by weaponed intruders from his home in Genk in April has been returned to his family. The boy endured six weeks of captivity before being dropped off on Sunday night one kilometre from his house. Police and the family had kept the case out of the press and the...