Unions representing rail workers have postponed a 72-hour strike planned for 21, 22 and 23 January, to allow students to travel to universities and university colleges to take exams during that period. The strike due to take place on 6 and 7 January will go ahead. When the five days of strikes were...

Brussels' iconic digital billboard at Place de Brouckère, Belgium's largest, was hacked for a short time at the weekend, displaying a troll face instead of the usual Coca-Cola logo, reports Brusselnieuws. A film first took over the immense screen, showing an English-speaking duo entering the...

The Privacy Commission has criticised a new database of terrorist suspects and extremists, part of a package of measures agreed by the government two weeks ago. The federal home affairs and justice ministers had asked the commission for advice. According to the commission, too many services are to...

The internationally acclaimed Belgian photographer Marc Lagrange, 57, was killed on Friday during a holiday on the Canary Island of Tenerife, where Lagrange arrived the same day with his girlfriend and son, write various Belgian media. The circumstances of the accident have not been confirmed, but...

The various social partners in Belgium have reached an agreement for the development of a framework that regulates night work for Belgian webshops. The federal government hopes the new regulation will lead to more job creation. Online retailers will soon be able to process their orders overnight on...

More than a quarter of the Belgians surveyed (27%) would be happy with a second-hand Christmas gift, according to a study by second-hand stores Troc.com and De Kringwinkels together with classifieds site 2dehands.be. The study, conducted by research agency iVox, surveyed 1,000 Belgians, and found...

More than 23 million passengers have passed through Brussels Airport already this year, an absolute record. To celebrate, the airport today treated all passengers to Belgian chocolates. “We would like to say thank you to all passengers for deciding on Brussels Airport to jet off on holiday or for...

The federal government, the drinks industry and bar managers have reached an agreement on a code of conduct for the industry, aimed at tackling the problem of so-called “strangulation contracts”. The months-long negotiation involved consumer affairs minister Kris Peeters, minister for small...

Online shopping is increasingly popular among users in Belgium, with both Coolblue and bol.com breaking records this holiday period, writes De Morgen . Bol.com, which recently reached the milestone of one million Belgian customers, has seen an unprecedented spike in sales in the run-up to the...

The majority of the metals collected from old laptops and computers in Belgium is re-used as raw material, but plastics recycling is still lagging behind, according to the results of a study by the University of Ghent, writes De Standaard . The researchers collaborated with recycling companies...