Belgian trains are getting more reliable - with punctuality above the 90% mark for only the second time in 10 years, new stats reveal. In 2019, 90.4% of trains in Belgium ran on time, the best result since 2015, according to figures from rail network manager Infrabel. There was, however, an 11%...

Step into Bozar’s concert hall, take a seat among surround-sound speakers and put on a blindfold. Hearing the music without being distracted is the idea behind Blinded: A Sensational Journey into Music . Musicians will play an eclectic mix of pop, rock, classical, chanson and more, some well-known...

Scores of old diesel vehicles belonging to Belgium's federal police force are now too polluting to drive in Brussels, Antwerp and Ghent - and have been redeployed to other parts of the country instead. The federal police said "many" of its thousands-strong fleet of vehicles did not meet the strict...

Do you hate getting rid of your Christmas tree every year? You’re not alone. Whether we feel terrible tossing something we cherished for weeks on the sidewalk for the rubbish collectors or cutting down a tree to use temporarily, many of us feel a twinge of guilt. Now a Schaerbeek citizen’s...

Brussels Airport broke a new passenger record in 2019, with 26.4 million people flying via the Zaventem hub, management have announced. The figure is a 2.7% improvement on the previous year. International transfers and local visitors contributed to the growth in equal measure. Over 10 years,...

Belgium's four biggest retail banks are planning to merge their cash machines into one standardised nationwide network from next year. The move by BNP Paribas Fortis, KBC, Belfius and ING aims to improve customers' access to cash at a time when bank branches are disappearing. Each of the four banks...

Despite city, regional and federal government measures being taken to limit CO2 emissions in the coming years, company cars in Belgium have never been more popular. Last year, a record 315,557 new cars were bought by businesses in the country, according to auto federation Febiac and reported in De...

Avi Goldstein would love to bottle the magic he sees when teenagers discover the impact effective negotiation could have on their lives. As founder of the Brussels-based Path­ways Institute for Negotiation Educa­tion , Goldstein and his team organise workshops with Belgian schools on navigating the...

Le Chat Cartoon Museum will open in Place Royale in the centre of Brussels in 2023, it has been confirmed. The long-awaited project celebrates the renowned cat character created by Brussels comedian and cartoonist Philippe Geluck, reports RTBF. One of francophone Belgium’s most popular comic-strips...

Cleaners and housekeepers will down their vacuum cleaners and irons on Wednesday and walk out on strike for better pay. About 160,000 people in Belgium are employed through the service cheques scheme (titres-services in French and diestencheques in Dutch). They are calling for a 1.1% wage increase...