Should you be a fan of historical courtroom dramas, then have we got good news for you. Brussels university VUB is looking for volunteers to help type and digitalise 10,000 interrogations of suspects and witnesses during trials in the 18th and 19th centuries. The goal of the Witnesses project is to...

After last October's municipal elections, some eight million people in Belgium return to the polls this Sunday for a triple whammy of voting in regional, federal and European elections. Polling stations everywhere will be open from 8.00 until 14.00. In communes where the vote is done electronically...

A €25 parking fine has turned into a €2,000 pay-out for Auderghem in a situation that can only be described as “Belgian”. Three years ago, a French-speaking resident of Brussels received a parking ticket. But her partner, Jan De Groote, Dutch-speaking, had been driving the car. He was forced, he...

American burger chain Five Guys will open its first Brussels restaurant inside City2 shopping centre on 1 July. The hamburger joint - which Barack Obama once described as serving "the best burgers in the world" - launched in Antwerp last February and is now coming to the capital. As well as being...

A new party concept is coming to Brussels this weekend - supporting visually impaired people while promising the best possible sound quality. With the Rien à Voir event he's organising on Saturday, Karl Meesters is determined to prove that high-quality sound and live events can go hand in glove. "...

A three-month analysis by the citizen’s group Les Chercheurs d’Air has determined that the level of fine particles present in Brussels is consistently above the maximum level for clean air established by the World Health Organization (WHO). “The official measuring stations are not giving us a...

It’s Youth for Climate’s final march before the regional, federal and European elections on Sunday, and that means par-tay . Make Noise for Climate starts with the now familiar protest march around the capital, but ends at Tour & Taxis with a festival, featuring speeches (sure), live music (...

A Brussels policeman has been detained and suspended from his job after a video was widely shared online of him kicking and punching a suspected burglar on a street in Molenbeek. The violent arrest was filmed by a witness from a neighbouring house. A policeman can be seen restraining a man on the...

A speed limit increase for electric scooters on Belgian roads - from 18 to 25kph - is one of several changes to the highway code coming into force at the end of this month. Six changes to the Belgium's rules of the road were published this week in the Moniteur Belge statute book, affecting scooter...

The Brussels branch of Huis van het Nederlands (House of Dutch) have produced a practical guide to help teachers talk to parents who speak very little Dutch. The Dutch-speaking schools in Brussels are home to a great many pupils who do not speak the language at home. It can be difficult for...