Four years ago, Elise Elsacker was frustrated. She was working as an intern at an architecture firm, and saw every day how much waste the sector produced. So she took an unorthodox step: she started experimenting with biology. “She was looking for innovative materials that were circular and...

Nine Belgians who were quarantined in Brussels as a precaution against Coronavirus were allowed to return home this weekend - after playing lots of ping-pong to pass the time. Eight of the patients had spent the past fortnight in a sealed ward at the military hospital in Neder-over-Heembeek,...

The largest French-speaking creche in Belgium opens in Etterbeek on Monday - with room for 180 babies and toddlers. The €10 million Aimé Dupont facility, near La Chasse, is the biggest daycare facility in Belgium to be accredited by Francophone child support organisation ONE. The 3,600m² creche...

A c hange in the way higher education is organised in Flanders has led to a rise in the number of students registering for the 2019-20 academic year. Enrolments now number 259,000 in Dutch-speaking universities and colleges across the region and in Brussels. The figure is up 8% on the previous year...

Brussels Airport is scrapping its €2.4 million electronic passport gates after less than five years - because they keep malfunctioning. The 24 gates have been condemned as "a waste of taxpayers' money" by police unions. They were introduced by former interior minister Jan Jambon to strengthen...

The number of empty retail spaces in Belgium continues to rise, a trend that hasn’t changed over the past 12 years. At this point, 11.2% of shop spaces are empty, an all-time high. And the increase of nearly 1% seen last year is the highest ever recorded. The figure comes from Locatus, a research...

French-speaking green party Ecolo would like to see Dutch or German become required for pupils in Wallonia. In Brussels, Dutch is required in French-speaking education from the third year, but Ecolo would like to see it start earlier. “Anchoring the three national languages in all schools is...

Meeting someone is hard. It can be even harder when you’re in a foreign country, don’t know a lot of people and don’t really speak the local languages. We asked Tinder expert Dr Elizabeth Timmermans for some insights and talked to some expats to find out how they’ve navigated the online dating...

Even serious chocoholics will get their fill at Salon du Chocolat , a massive fair dedicated to one of the things Belgium does best (the other is beer). You will see demonstrations by the country’s top chocolatiers and pastry chefs, you will ogle dresses make of chocolate during a fashion show, you...

Locals in Hainaut province are being asked to bury a pair of underpants in their garden on 1 April in the name of scientific research - and it's not an April Fool. The cotton pants should be kept 15cm underground for two months - then dug up, left to dry and handed over for analysis. The Plaines d'...