Six years ago, it felt like extremist terrorism would haunt us permanently. The March 2016 bombs in the Brussels metro and airport left 35 people dead. They came after the November 2015 attacks in ...

Contemporary Belgian politics often seems too complex for its good, but the political landscape in the Middle Ages and the early modern period could have been even more bizarre. Belgium was once a ...

On the last Friday of May, a military plane touched down outside Brussels and a man in a dark suit ran out, leaping into the arms of family members. The Belgian aid worker, Olivier Vandecasteele, was ...

Belgium may be divided politically and linguistically, but one thing all regions and communities can agree on is the beloved national biscuit: Speculoos. Much like beer, chocolate, waffles or fries, ...

All of Brussels can be seen as an open-air museum with streets, squares and parks adorned by historical statues and memorials, mostly meant to represent and even glorify Belgium’s past. But for a long ...

To Stephane Dandois, an avid rock climber, it seemed like a fun idea: convert a church in the Brussels commune of Forest into a wall climbing club. Little did he imagine that his scheme from two and a ...

Belgium will introduce measures to limit social fraud by home nurses in 2026, including a ceiling on the number of visits that can be billed per day. Federal Health Minister Frank Vandenbroucke ...

Machetes, clubs, pickaxes and spears. These were the weapons used by Rwandans as they slaughtered their fellow countrymen during the 1994 genocide. They were used against colleagues, neighbours, ...

A fresh new chapter is opening in Sint-Stevens-Woluwe. What was once a quiet office complex is now transforming into Wol U: a forward-thinking residential neighbourhood created by ION—and its highly ...

Magritte is rumoured to have sold his first painting to one of the regulars in the bohemian Brussels café La Fleur en Papier Doré at Rue des Alexiens 55. The three tiny rooms are filled with old ...

Telecom companies in Belgium have increased the price of their standard packages (including television, internet, and telephone) by between 15% and 70% since 2014, according to consumer organisation ...

On a grey Belgian spring day, people in dark suits hurry up and down Antwerp’s Hoveniersstraat carrying black leather briefcases. Some pause to talk with one another for a moment, but in the city’s ...