Bart De Wever (pictured), the chair of Flemish nationalist party N-VA, has said that confederalism or further state reform should be on the table in talks over forming a federal government. His remarks follow an election day that saw Flanders with a huge right-wing majority and Wallonia with just...

The American violinist Stella Chen ( pictured ) has won the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels, one of the most challenging and prestigious classical music contests in the world. The only Belgian finalist, Sylvia Huang, did not place in the top six laureates named. Chen, 26, studied at the...

Banks and post offices around Belgium will be closed not just on Thursday's Ascension public holiday - but also on the Friday. Bpost will deliver only newspapers and parcels on Friday - no regular letters. Post offices and banks will reopen on Saturday, according to their normal opening hours. With...

Like a lot of European cities, Brussels has a ton of gay bars but zero lesbian bars. It’s why Britt Mosselmans and Chiara Christoffersen launched Match Belgium, a new non-profit that puts on trilingual networking events and parties for queer women and their friends. With their events, Mosselmans (...

The ‘urban winery’ is a thing, and now Brussels has one, too. The difference between urban wineries and the traditional sort is that they don't have the space to grow their own grapes, and so bring them in from local vineyards instead. Thierry Lejeune ( pictured, right ) is a Brussels resident who...

In a similar picture to the rest of the country, Sunday’s election for the 75-seat Walloon parliament saw the main parties all suffering a considerable dent in their support. The PS, liberal MR and centrist CDH all experienced losses, while Ecolo and left-wing PTB reported significant wins, each...

Extreme right party Vlaams Belang made the most gains in yesterday’s regional and federal elections, while N-VA got the most votes at both the regional and federal level. Vlaams-Belang emerged as the second-biggest party in the Flemish region and the third-biggest at the federal level. While...

Green party Ecolo was the big winner in Brussels' regional elections on Sunday, doubling its number of seats to 15 to become the region's second largest party behind PS. Ecolo won 16% of the vote, a gain of seven seats compared with its performance in 2014. The green party is just two seats behind...

Flemish far-right party Vlaams Belang made the biggest gains in Belgium's federal elections on Sunday, winning 18 seats to become the third biggest party in parliament. Vlaams Belang polled three times better than in 2014, with 12% of the vote. Outgoing prime minister Charles Michel - whose MR...

Turnhout will begin a pilot project in September that uses drones to transport medical samples between hospital sites. The aim is to make hospital services more efficient and to avoid adding to the pollution and congestion on the city’s roads. AZ Turnhout is spread over several sites in the city,...