With an average net worth of €450,000, Belgian households are among the wealthiest in Europe, according to a study by ING. The study shows that Belgian families have increased their wealth by 17% since 2007, write various Belgian media. For the study, ING researched the total added value of all...

Government officials, employees and independents in Belgium can now consult more aspects of their retirement details online, such as the exact date upon which one can retire, thanks to a series of new features added to the pensioners portal, mypension.be. Pensions minister Daniel Bacquelaine and...

Prince Laurent earlier this month refunded €16,000 to the Belgian state, three months after it was discovered that the prince had unlawfully included private spending in official expenses. King Philippe's brother has now reimbursed the amount he fraudulently claimed as expenses, though he did so...

Clean My Street, the successor to the popular app Fix My Street, will be available to Brussels residents in the second half of this year, says Fadila Laanan, state secretary in charge of public hygiene. The app allows Brussels residents to identify and report problems with cleanliness in the city,...

Two Indian brothers in Brussels have expanded their growing culinary empire by offering traditional Indian lunchboxes delivered to your workplace, event or conference. Place your order on the website – a one-off or recurring order – and Sunny Harminder and Varinder Noni will bring you a tiffin full...

Until early 2017, master violin-maker Thomas Meuwissen is working from his self-designed workshop on the seventh floor of the Musical Instruments Museum in Brussels which means that the public will be able to watch him and his assistants as they create a quatuor: two violins, one viola and one...

Thanks to the film In Bruges , we know what happens when an Irish odd couple ends up in Flanders. Now, the favour is returned in Broer (Brother), directed by Geoffrey Enthoven, in which two ill-matched Flemings travel to Ireland in search of riches and revenge. One of them is Mark, a man who has...

The federal government’s Court of Auditors, which scrutinises all expenditure at whatever level, is about to produce a report severely criticising the national rail authority SNCB and the rail infrastructure company Infrabel, according to an advance copy obtained by the daily newspaper Le Soir. The...

With an average of eight rapes per day and hardly any convictions, Belgium has a poor record when it comes to sexual violence. The UN Human Rights Council today will investigate the issue with Belgian deputy prime minister Didier Reynders ( pictured ) during the Universal Periodic Review (UPR),...

In 2015, nearly 15 million international tourists visited the Netherlands, an increase of 7% compared to the previous year, according to a report that NBTC Holland Marketing released on Tuesday. Nearly 2 million tourists to the Netherlands last year came from Belgium, which puts the country in...