This Friday, churches and mosques across Belgium will recognise the feast day of St Francis of Assisi and the meeting that took place on 4 October 1219. Churches and belfries will ring their bells simultaneously in the action dubbed A Franciscan Call 4 Peace. Churches, mosques and schools in...

Two of Belgium’s leading youth climate activists boarded a sailboat in Amsterdam on Wednesday to travel to a climate conference in Chile. Anuna De Wever and Adélaïde Charlier, both leading figures of the Youth for Climate Belgium organisation, will be travelling with three dozen other activists who...

A local chapter of the international human rights organisation Amnesty International has renamed the avenue Franklin Roosevelt into the avenue Jamal Khashoggi. Amnesty International activists also protested at the Saudi embassy in Brussels, which is located on the avenue Franklin Roosevelt in the...

Some 400 people took part in the Freedom Drive March this morning in the European Quarter to demand more services and improved policies for what it calls an ‘apartheid’ against the disabled. Participants – most of them with some kind of disability – came from across Europe to take part in the march...

A Brussels Frenchman has won the 2020 Gault & Millau title of the best chocolate maker in the city. The jury of the famous gastronomic guide praised both the quality and originality of Grimonpon’s chocolate products, which frequently include ingredients such as a rosemary, matcha tea and a...

Local drivers are improperly using the city’s bicycle boulevards, going as far as removing blocks of concrete to be able to continue accessing local roads. Several bicycle boulevards have been created alongside the Brussels ring road in the last few months. Cars are not allowed to overtake cyclists...

If you overstayed your parking spot in Ixelles lately … don’t worry about it at all. Most likely, your fine has been forgiven, due to a computer error. A digital glitch meant that a few thousand parking offences earned by drivers between April and July in Ixelles were never sent out. “It’s a...

CAD College of Advertising and Design is a higher education college of art specialising in interior architecture, advertising, web design and 3D. 25 Rue Roberts-Jones 1180 Brussels, 02.640.40.32 secretariat@cad.be CERIS provides advanced education for professionals: diplomats, EU or Nato officials...

Ever with its finger on the pulse, Brussels’ annual all-night extravaganza Nuit Blanche looks at the relationship between humans and nature this year – namely the former’s impact on the latter. The 17th edition this Saturday is entitled Human Nature, and is focusing on the Anthropocene, the era...

More than 3,000 high-bred horses transit through Liège Airport by road or by air each year. Since 2016, the airport’s purpose-built facility has been providing overnight accommodation for this special group of travellers and has gained a reputation worldwide for caring for equines on the move. The...