Belgium’s love affair with food starts with a tradition of good home cooking. Across the country you can find excellent produce and an enticing range of continental kit and utensils that can transform your kitchen and your culinary repertoire. Here are some of our favourite cookware shops; many...

Molenbeek is more popular than ever, writes De Morgen. Not only the federal police have been visiting the Brussels commune over the past few weeks, but a number of curious Belgians and foreigners as well. The new flood of tourists are interested in learning more about the place where accused...

In 2012 in Belgium, 11,770 people died prematurely due to the effects of air pollution, according to a report published by the European Environment Agency (EEA) concerning air quality in Europe, writes De Morgen . According to the report , air pollution is directly linked to 432,000 premature...

As the Paris climate conference started on Monday, Belgium had failed to produce a common policy. Four of its governments – one federal and three regional – have been negotiating for no less than six years. Yet an agreement could not be reached. The negotiations centre on the regional division of...

In Brussels on Sunday, 162 people climbed the 466 steps of the 30-story Sheraton Hotel in the fifth edition of a unique race organised each year by Unicef Belgium. Omar Bekkali was this year's winner, reaching the top floor of the building in one minute and 54 seconds. It is the third year in a row...

The Brussels commune of Saint-Gilles has changed its plan for the redevelopment of 'the Parvis', its main square, in response to pressure from the community after locals started a petition against the initial plan's intent to fell nearly all of the square's trees. According to the updated plan, the...

AirBsit is a new app that brings Brussels babysitters in touch with parents who are planning a night out. The concept is the brainchild of two working moms from Brussels, Géraldine and Donatienne. So far, more than 700 babysitters have registered via the app. In just a few clicks, airBsit shows...

Belgium is anything but the failed state it was made out to be in the international media following the terror attacks in Paris on 13 November, former US Ambassador to Belgium Howard Gutman ( pictured ) told television news programme De Zevende Dag. "The only failure Belgium has had, is that it let...

The Schuman roundabout in Brussels will be partly pedestrianised from 2017, in a €7.6m project that aims to reduce traffic around the heart of the EU district. The Brussels government has approved a plan and will launch a public tender to redesign the busy junction, with a pedestrian zone through...