The municipality of Ixelles has given a local non-profit money and the green light to transform a vacant building office into a temporary meeting place for the neighbourhood’s young and old. Communa, a non-profit aimed at combating vacancy, plan to open a temporary, non-profit bar and to organise...

Sexual intimidation is a regular occurrence at music festivals that attract tens of thousands, and the organisers of Brussels Summer Festival (BSF) are launching a campaign to combat it. Brussels’ five-day open-air festival starts today. The festival is working with the non-profit Touche Pas à ma...

Nearly 3,500 Brits have become Belgian citizens since the UK decided to leave the European Union in June of 2016. The figures were released by the Belgian Federal Public Service Interior Affairs, which expects the number of new Belgo-Brits to increase to 4,000 by November. The number of UK citizens...

Independent railway union SIC has said itwill go on a day-long strike this Saturday, 17 August. SIC labour unionists made the announcement after national rail authority SNCB earlier failed to meet their demands during a meeting earlier today. The independent SIC union want SNCB management to...

Birdwatchers were in for a surprise yesterday evening, when a record number of 383 storks were spotted in Maaseik in the northeast of Limburg province. That’s by far the largest group of storks ever observed in Belgium, the previous record being 280. The storks were on their way from the...

Workers in the European parliament in Brussels are up in arms about yet another price increase in the building’s canteen. Prices for meals and snacks shot up by 25% last week, when many of the workers were away on holiday. The prices overall in the canteen were already higher than in other EU...

Every day, roughly three dozen drivers speed through Schaerbeek at a speed of 86km per hour in areas that have a 50km per hour speed limit. The findings spring from multiple speed checks carried out by the Vias road safety institute on the Chaussée de Haecht, the main thoroughfare that traverses...

Belgium’s animal rights organisation Gaia has joined 16 other associations in penning an open letter to the new Brussels government demanding a ban on the slaughter of livestock without first stunning the animals. Stunning with an electric shock to the brain is required in Flanders and will be in...

As the process to form a new Flemish government continue following May’s elections, progress was made today when N-VA chair Bart De Wever sent a startnota to Christian-democrats CD&V and liberals Open VLD. A startnota is a formal proposal drawn up for the formation of an administration, based...

The Brussels-Capital Region has announced it plans to scrap 65,000 streetside parking spots by 2030. This will bring the number of available parking spots to just under 200,000, or a decrease by quarter. The decision follows from the Good Move regional mobility plan unveiled by the regional...