Several official commemoration ceremonies will take place on the 10-year anniversary of the Brussels terror attacks on Sunday 22 March. The first ceremony will be held in the morning in the departure hall of Brussels Airport at about 8.00, where two bombs exploded and killed 16 people in a baggage...

Brussels' new minister-president has come under fire for his poor command of Dutch, even from French-speakers. Over the weekend when taking questions from the press about his new role as the bilingual capital’s minister-president, Boris Dilliès (MR) could barely answer questions in Dutch, stumbling...

The millions of colonial archives lying in the AfricaMuseum in Tervuren are at the heart of a tug-of-war between Belgium, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and an American private company, reports RTBF. The dispute over the digitalisation of the archives has both economic and diplomatic...

Garden waste in green bags will be collected every two weeks in Brussels from 23 March, the region’s waste management company Bruxelles-Propreté has announced. The day on which the bags are collected will remain the same. Bruxelles-Propreté said that the change was due to "operational factors" and...

A funding crisis facing the Flagey cultural centre in Ixelles has been temporarily averted now that an agreement is in the works, according to its chair, Julie de Groote. The previous lack of a new management agreement, and therefore the associated subsidies, meant the Flagey cultural centre was in...

Rooted in classical virtuosity and driven by the freedom of jazz, clarinettist Anton Jakimenko brings together three musical worlds in an intimate acoustic trio concert on 28 February. Born in Uzbekistan and shaped in the Netherlands, Anton’s musical journey moves from rigorous classical training...

Belgium's federal government has postponed the introduction of compulsory accident insurance for self-employed workers such as meal delivery drivers by two years. The postponement was sharply criticised by the ACV trade union, which warned that "platform workers are being squeezed even further". In...

A record 204,791 people sought regular food aid in Belgium in 2025 - twice as many as 20 years ago - according to the annual report from the Belgian Federation of Food Banks. The report states that given the increase in poverty, food bank services have become essential to the survival of the...

Thousands of homes in Mons have spent several days without heating or hot water after a major gas and electricity outage. The first problems came from disruptions to the gas supply at 14 substations. The city asked residents to limit consumption until service could be restored, but then a...

Belgian railway operator SNCB has said it will investigate whether access gates can be installed in stations to increase security and cut down on fare evasion. Passengers already have to scan their tickets before entering stations on the Brussels metro network and in some train stations abroad, but...