On Saturday, another Palestinian hunger striker was taken from the Church of St John the Baptist at the Beguinage in central Brussels to hospital. A spokeswoman for the hunger strikers reported the news to the Belga news agency.
The Brussels government has reached an agreement on the Brussels Region’s 2027 budget. Under the agreement, PM Boris Dilliès (Francophone liberal MR) has pledged to reduce the deficit to 719 million euros.
A 13th-century mural of Christ in the St Nicholas Church in Ghent is undergoing a thorough restoration. The painting depicts Christ on a throne, surrounded by kneeling figures. The work was discovered by chance in the late 1990s, by which time it was already in a poor state of repair.
The personal data of 700,000 people, sourced from a database belonging to the Walloon training network IFAPME, has been made available online for free on a forum on the dark web. Website FrenchBreaches that tracks data breaches has highlighted the hack. The data includes sensitive information such…
From 1 January, Belgian postal services provider Bpost is increasing rates for sending letters and parcels. On average, a stamp will cost around 8 per cent more. Sending a small parcel from a post office will cost 40 cents more.
Belgium’s federal police are conducting an investigation, on behalf of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO), into former Belgian Prime Minister and former Euro MP Guy Verhofstadt (Flemish liberal Anders). Weekly Knack broke the news that VRT News has been able to confirm. The European…
Yesterday evening the Brussels regional government reached agreement on the Brussels Region’s 2027 budget. “There will be cuts to public spending, and there will be no across-the-board tax increases for the people of Brussels,” Brussels PM Boris Dilliès (Francophone liberal MR) said after the…
Creamery De Zuivelarij from Berlare (East Flanders) has won the 2026 BioVLAM award. The cheese dairy impressed the jury with its organic versions of paneer and labneh, two international dairy specialities.
The seaside resort of Ostend (West Flanders) is pulling out all the stops this winter with the second edition of ‘Lichtgolf’ (Light Wave). This time, the light walk route uses the story of two sea-glow algae that end up in Ostend to link seven light installations scattered throughout the city…
More and more Flemings – around 44 per cent of the adult population -rarely or never drink alcohol. Four years ago, the figure was 36 per cent. The figure comes from a survey of 2,292 Flemings commissioned by the Stand Up to Cancer charity Kom op tegen Kanker. The organisation is announcing the…