C alicot, the non-profit behind the new International Film Festival Antwerp (Iffa), which was meant to debut next March, has announced that they are putting the event on hold. The director pointed to the “current climate” in the cultural sector as the reason. “After careful consideration and...

Family Day at the House of European History is chock-a-block with activities such as games, crafts and a Discovery Space where kids can dress up as historical figures. Numerous workshops see them designing objects with a 3D pen, making augmented reality videos and learning how to upcycle. All...

About a quarter of taxis in Brussels are sitting idle, because not enough people can be found to drive them, new figures reveal. Some 1,277 vehicles are allowed to operate as taxis in the Brussels-Capital region, but about 300 of them do not have a driver. Sam Bouchal, secretary of the Belgian Taxi...

The Molenbeek coding school MolenGeek has entered a partnership with telecoms firm Proximus. MolenGeek will benefit from Proximus tech workers’ expertise as well as send up to 20 interns a year to the company. MolenGeek was launched in 2015 by Molenbeek resident Ibrahim Ouassari, a self-taught...

There is a collective "ahhh!" from the visitors at Pairi Daiza's panda enclosure when a woman walks out of a side door with a three-month old cub in her arms. The panda, who currently goes by the name Baby Boy, weighs 6kg and is the size of a watermelon. He is sleepy, and when placed in his...

A few dozen activists took to the Médiacité shopping centre in Liège at the weekend to protest at the racist incident that took place at JD Sports a couple of weeks ago. The protest is the latest in a series of events that began when a video of the manager’s behaviour made the rounds on social...

Flemish minister-president Jan Jambon, also responsible for culture in the Flemish government, has published his policy plan for the coming four years. As expected based on the government accord, culture subsidies will be cut by 6% in total. The details now reveal that the seven officially...

Self-driving trains will be introduced to Belgium's rail network to improve punctuality and capacity - but not until 2026 at the very earliest. Belgian rail network operator Infrabel has set aside an €8 million budget over the next five years to develop the new automated technology. A driver will...

Before 14 November 1994, London and Brussels felt much further apart. You could fly, drive on to a Channel ferry or hovercraft, or take the train to Ostend or Zeebrugge, then spend four hours on the crossing to Kent and still face a two-hour rail journey on the other side. When the Eurostar train...

A woman in Anderlecht had the shock of her life when she received a letter from the commune saying she had been declared dead. Véronique, 57, had to provide a "certificate of living" - to prove she was still alive - and have her ID documents reissued after the administrative mishap. The error...