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Brussels Airlines to fly to Crete and Thessaloniki

From May to October next year, Brussels Airlines will add regular direct flights between Brussels and the Greek cities Thessaloniki and Heraklion, the airline reported in a press release. Starting from the Easter holidays, Brussels Airlines will fly on Tuesdays and Saturdays from Brussels Airport...

English-language billboards must go, says language watchdog

Billboards along Flemish motorways announcing the launch of road pricing for lorries are in violation of Belgium's language laws, according to the Standing Committee for Language Supervision (VCT), reports the Belgian transport federation UPTR. Viapass, which launched the campaign, points out that...

Brussels cancels homage to Leopold II amid protest

The City of Brussels has cancelled plans to hold an homage to King Leopold II on Thursday evening in front of the statue of the former Belgian king. Protest against the event was at the heart of the decision to cancel, due to the dubious role the king played in the colonial history of the...

Brussels to ring in New Year with fireworks (under one condition)

The City of Brussels will ring in the New Year with a fireworks display on New Year's Eve, so long as the terror threat level remains at three, writes De Morgen following the announcement made by Brussels mayor Yvan Mayeur. Like last year, the fireworks display will take place at De Brouckère. But...

Free wifi at Bourse and Flagey

The Brussels-Capital Region this week adds two new free public wifi locations to its list of 'hotspots': Place Flagey and Place de la Bourse. That brings the total number of free wifi zones in the region up to 44. The two new hotspots go live on Friday, announced state secretary for digitisation...

Bourgeois meets Scottish first minister Nicola Sturgeon

Flemish minister-president Geert Bourgeois has completed a two-day visit to Scotland, including a meeting with First Minister Nicola Sturgeon as well as contacts with other important partners. The Flemish delegation visited Rosyth in Fife, at one end of an important goods sea route from Zeebrugge...

Interior minister urges firms: Do business in Belgium 'with confidence'

Federal interior minister Jan Jambon spoke to members of the British Chamber of Commerce yesterday as part of the Ambassador Hosts series of speeches in English. “Unfortunately, 2015 will be remembered in Belgium as a year of almost continuous threats of terrorism,” he said. Jambon (pictured)...

VisitBrussels launches call for selfies

The tourist information desk VisitBrussels is encouraging visitors to Brussels' cultural institutions to share a picture of themselves via social media. The participants whose selfies get the most 'likes' will win a year's worth of free culture in the city. There will be three winners of the selfie...

Brussels exhibition sheds new light on Egyptian archaeology

Matchbooks and cigarette packs are the last thing you expect to see under glass in the Egyptian section of the Cinquantenaire Museum, still less a wrapping paper for candles made in Antwerp. But their presence in the museum’s Djehutihotep exhibition brings a new perspective to the modern practice...

Two new stations join Brussels city rail network

Yesterday should have seen the grand opening of the new and long-awaited tunnel linking Schuman railway station and the Halle-Vilvoorde line 26. But that opening has been postponed until April because of delays caused by the heightening of the terror alert in Brussels last month. Instead, federal...

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