The government of Flanders has announced a new package of measures to help businesses survive the coronavirus crisis. The most significant for the self-employed and family-owned businesses is a subsidy of €3,000. The new subsidy is for businesses that have continued to operate but will lose 60% or...

While Stephan Vanfleteren is world famous, his portrait photography can best be appreciated by the people of Belgium, who instantly recognise famous faces like actor Jan Decleir ( pictured ), hip-hop singer Stromae and choreographer Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker. The retrospective of Vanfleteren’s...

Children's experiences of the coronavirus crisis are being collected and published in a project launched by KU Leuven university. The idea is to provide kids with a creative outlet and also to help them write their own history as events unfold. Primary and secondary school students have been asked...

Belgian designer Charles Kaisin has created the artistic project Origami for Life to raise money for a Covid-19 special care unit at Erasmus Hospital in Brussels. He invites everyone to make an origami from a simple piece of paper by following his online tutorial . They can then be dropped off at...

A pheasant was caught on camera this weekend in Saint-Gilles, not exactly a normal sight for the densely populated municipality in Brussels. The photo turned up on the I Love Saint-Gilles Facebook group and prompted a few more members to submit their own photos and observances of animals not...

A 12-year-old girl in Ghent has succumbed to complications brought on by the coronavirus, becoming the youngest known person in Europe to die from Covid-19. “She took a sudden turn for the worse following three days of fever,” said virologist Steven Van Gucht, head of the coronavirus scientific...

Belgian researchers have successfully converted snorkelling equipment into emergency ventilators and protective masks. The simple and pragmatic inventions by scientists are plugging the shortage of medical equipment following the coronavirus outbreak. Brussels’ francophone university ULB and...

According to a spokesperson from the National Crisis Centre, residents should not visit their partners if they do not live under the same roof as them. The question has popped up regularly in the media as it exists in a grey area and therefore makes it difficult for police to assess the situation...

Hotel owners in the centre of Mechelen are offering free rooms to hospital workers to allow them to get some sleep close by work. The same owners are offering rooms to people who find that working at home isn’t as efficient as they need it to be. In keeping with measures to limit the spread of the...

Belgium is the birthplace of the world’s biggest and most powerful brewery – and a newly published book tells the story of how two small Belgian family businesses came to take over the global brewing industry. Becoming the World’s Biggest Brewer: Artois, Piedboeuf, and Interbrew (1880-2000) charts...