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There are more than 1 million company cars on Belgian roads, including taxis, vans and passenger cars.
With 25,306 employees in 2013, Bpost maintains its position as Belgium's largest employer, despite ending last year with 11,000 fewer domestic jobs than in 2012, according to Trends magaz
Belgium has received an official request to send Belgian troops to Iraq, to help train the Iraqi troops and offer support in the fight against the jihadists of the Islamic State (IS), according to
According to a report by the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development), an alliance of the world’s wealthiest countries, Belgium’s income tax burden is 10% higher than the aver
Belgium this year dropped two spots to 16th place on the Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI), an international index that ranks the climate efforts of 58 countries.
An overnight stay in Bruges costs more on average than in metropolitan cities such as London, Paris or Hong Kong, according to a study by GoEuro.
Tributes were paid at the weekend to dowager queen Fabiola, who died at home at Stuyvenberg castle in Brussels on Friday. The widow of King Baudouin, she was 86.
Half of Belgians are overweight, and about 14% are obese, according to the most recent health survey conducted by the Scientific Institute of Public Health (WIV-ISP).
The train crash at Wetteren, East Flanders, in May of 2013, which led to toxic chemicals being leaked into the environment, the death of one person and the evacuation of 2,000 homes, was partly ca
