The Grand Départ of the Tour de France will be in Brussels this July, the first time since 1958. Starting this month, the 22nd Brussels Short Film Festival (BSFF) will get us in the mood with two programmes of short films on bikes and racing. The films from Belgium, Canada, Croatia, France, Italy,...

F or one of art history’s greats, Pieter Bruegel the Elder has spawned a surprising lack of exhibitions. A pioneer of genre painting and landscapes, the Flemish Renaissance artist’s works – the hunters in the snow or rollicking peasant scenes – are world-famous. Now the visionary is finally set to...

This is not the first time social scientist Olesya Tkacheva has crossed the Atlantic to start again. Born in Azerbaijan, then part of the former Soviet Union, she moved to the US after its collapse and became an American citizen. There she carved out an uncommon career that has seen her bridge the...

There’s no better place to enjoy the Easter holidays than Belgium, the capital of chocolate. Everywhere you look, eye-catching displays fi ll the windows of the chicest artisans, while your local supermarket is perfect for stocking up on mini eggs and other wallet-friendly goodies. From cool...

You could be forgiven for thinking of green chemistry as something of a contradiction in terms. But with heavy industry among the world’s biggest polluters, finding sustainable, clean working methods has become a necessity and thus a primary goal for many governments, notably Wallonia’s. The region...

This year is the 30th anniversary of one of the capital’s most beloved tourist attractions, Mini-Europe. Special events take place throughout 2019, with this week a new addition to the miniature monuments having appeared. Rome’s glorious Trevi Fountain – if you haven’t seen it in real life surely...

The second week of the Easter school holiday is taken over by Hopla! , Brussels’ annual free festival of all things circus, acrobatic and street theatre. The range is immense, from open-air jugglers to indoor shows featuring some of the most intriguing artists in the field. Every day the festival...

Delta Hospital has just received three small electric children’s cars for their pediatric unit. Children will be able to drive into the operating room or treatment in their very own police car. The vehicles were a donation from the organisation "Ce Soir, c'est Noël”. They give children a small...

Brussels public transport operator Stib is attempting crack down on passengers sharing their used tickets. Many people purchase 24-hour tickets, but do not need them for the full 24 hours. Often, they will leave the tickets at the gates of Stib stations and inform others through social media...

This weekend, Jamioulx and Hasselt prisons were the first to add telephones inside their cells. The inmates have the option to call from these phones at a rate of €0.11 a minute. All Belgian prisons are expected to be equipped with phones by this summer. Every prisoner receives a personal code...