The federal tax authority in Belgium has for the first time sold seized goods via auction site eBay, yielding a total of about €50,000 this year. Previously the state sold confiscated goods from its own store or through public auction, reports the VRT. When a court calls for the confiscation of...

According to YouTube's list of the most viewed videos of the past year, musical talent and humour proved most popular with Belgian viewers. More than half of Belgium's most watched videos in 2015 were posted by the official YouTube Creators channel. YouTube viewers in Belgium show an overwhelming...

Four hospitals in Belgium on Tuesday joined the growing list of 'baby-friendly' hospitals worldwide, reports the FPS Public Health. This year marks the 10th anniversary of the label in Belgium, part of the broader Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI) launched by the World Health Organization (...

Belgium’s Superior Health Council and the Scientific Committee of the Federal Food Agency have advised the government to further examine the public health consequences of the 1999 dioxin crisis. In the spring of 1999, news broke that animal feedstock in Belgium had been contaminated with the...

Vlerick Business School, with locations in Ghent, Leuven and Brussels, has risen one place in the annual European Business School Rankings compiled by the Financial Times, to enter the top 15. The rankings cover 85 schools. These overall rankings are based on five other lists produced during the...

Euthanasia should no longer be carried out on the basis of psychological suffering alone, according to 65 Belgian psychiatrists, psychologists and professors in an op-ed published by De Morgen this week. On average, 2,000 people a year in Belgium choose to end their lives through euthanasia. Most...

According to a survey by Ipsos MORI, a leading market research company in the UK, Belgium holds a shameful seventh place in the list of countries with the least accurate knowledge of key subjects, writes Le Vif . Ipsos’ latest version of the Perils of Perception survey – or Index of Ignorance –...

Obviously, this is a complex matter at the best of times, but when the international circumstances of the expat come into play, it becomes even more important to have a flexible plan, and to involve experts in the preparations where necessary. Is it possible to plan for all the stages of life? Yes...

According to a survey of more than 1,000 Belgians by mobility organisation Touring, 80% of the respondents are in favour of raising the speed limit on motorways from 120- to 130km per hour, given the limit would be reduced to 110km per hour in rainy conditions, write the Mediahuis newspapers...

Slightly more than one in three women in Belgium (37%) say they feel discriminated against in the workplace, report De Standaard , Het Nieuwsblad and Le Soir , based on a study by Amazone, the Belgian resource centre for various actors in the field of gender equality. For the so-called Emancipation...