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From bricks to clicks: The challenges of online retail in Belgium

After almost two decades of slow growth, e-commerce is finally picking up in Belgium. Last year, the 7 million Belgians who shop online spent an average of just under €1,700 each, for a total online sales figure of €11.84 billion, according to eCommerce Foundation research. In the meantime, Belgian...

Samusocial appeals for help finding suitable homeless shelters for winter

Brussels' homeless charity, Samusocial, has launched an appeal to businesses and private property owners to find suitable premises to accommodate 600 homeless people in the city this winter. The winter aid plan is due to begin in mid-November, but the organisation said its discussions with public...

(Closed): Free tour of Forest and Wiels on 17 November with Brussels Greeters

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Explore the Brussels municipality of Forest and its contemporary art centre, Wiels, thanks to the latest Visit.brussels Greeters free tour on the afternoon of Sunday 17 November.

The two-hour tour will be followed by a visit of Open Skies, the newest exhibition at Wiels, in which seven international artists explore the themes of transparency, privacy and freedom.

VUB and ULB hold joint academic opening for first time

Brussels' two universities have held a joint party to mark their 185 year anniversary and 50 years of co-operation. The ceremony was attended by King Filip. On Friday, the Dutch-speaking VUB and francophone ULB held their first ever joint opening, the annual ceremony that marks the beginning of the...

70% air quality improvement on Car-Free Sunday

Air quality in Brussels was 70% better because of Car-Free Sunday - but soon returned to normal when traffic resumed on Sunday evening. Motor vehicles were banned in the capital on Sunday. Buses and taxis were limited to 30kph. Frans Fierens, executive director of regional air quality monitoring...

Hasbro has spoken: Manneken Pis must don trunks for Monopoly

The designers of the new Brussels version of the immortal Monopoly board game have not been able to convince American mega-corporation Hasbro that the Manneken Pis should appear on the box au naturel . Hasbro, owner of the board game that is produced in more than 100 countries around the world,...

Seafood Expo quits Brussels for Barcelona after 28 years

One of the biggest trade fairs to visit Brussels each year has announced it is quitting the Belgian capital in 2021, preferring Barcelona instead. Thousands of hotel rooms across the capital are fully booked when the Seafood congress comes to Brussels Expo every spring. The largest seafood fair in...

These are Brussels' two best wine bars, experts say

The Bar du Canal on Rue Dansaert and L'Etiquette, near the Abbaye de la Cambre, have been voted the two best wine bars in Brussels by a panel of wine experts. Judges from the Inter Wine & Dine oenology school visited 22 wine bars in central Brussels and some of the neighbouring municipalities...

Flemish parliament set to reopen, with or without government in place

The Flemish Parliament will open for the 2019-2020 session as planned on Monday, 23 September. If no Flemish government is in place by then, the opening will go ahead without the traditional September Declaration to begin proceedings. If the government has been formed by 23 September, the plenary...

What’s on this week: 20-26 September

Hop on your bike, lace up your skates or just mosey with your two legs into the middle of any old thoroughfare – it’s Car-Free Sunday . One of Brussels’ most popular events of the year, it’s the biggest car-free day in Europe. With the entire Brussels-Capital Region closed to motorised vehicles (...

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