Police in Marseilles have detained five people for questioning in connection with the shootings at the Jewish Museum in Brussels last May, which left four dead. The man suspected of firing the shots, French national Mehdi Nemmouche, was arrested in Marseilles a week after the attack and is in...

A plan to create a new contemporary art museum in the canal zone in Brussels appeared to have come to an end yesterday, after state secretary Elke Sleurs said that the existing modern art collection should return to the Royal Museums of Fine Arts. The statement also signalled the end of the new Fin...

Belgium has received an official request to send Belgian troops to Iraq, to help train the Iraqi troops and offer support in the fight against the jihadists of the Islamic State (IS), according to a report in Le Soir , confirmed by Foreign Affairs Minister Didier Reynders. US General James Terry...

According to a report by the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development), an alliance of the world’s wealthiest countries, Belgium’s income tax burden is 10% higher than the average tax burden of 34.1% in all 34 OECD countries. The tax burden, or the entirety of tax revenues...

A new micro-brewery is set to open in Brussels’ Dansaert district. Brussels Beer Project has purchased a former brewery near the canal and intends to begin brewing there from next summer. They will also launch a new crowdfunding operation to raise money for the initiative, reports brusselnieuws.be...

The European Commission is looking into the possibility of taking up office space in the Flemish periphery around Brussels. EU administration needs to find two new buildings – a 30,000 square-metre office building that would be available in 2019, and a larger complex offering 100,000 square metres...

The City of Brussels wants to start as early as next year with the implementation of a “low emissions zone” in its city centre. Antwerp would like to do the same, possibly from 2016, but the details for both cities still need to be worked out, reports De Tijd . With the initiative, Brussels and...

Public transport in Brussels was still feeling the effects of yesterday’s strike, as most trains arrived and left stations 10 to 20 minutes late this morning. Monday’s action, one in a series of provincial strikes leading up to the national strike next week, took place in Brussels, Flemish Brabant...

Belgium this year dropped two spots to 16th place on the Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI), an international index that ranks the climate efforts of 58 countries. It is the tenth time that the non-profit NGO Germanwatch and Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe team up for the initiative...

An overnight stay in Bruges costs more on average than in metropolitan cities such as London, Paris or Hong Kong, according to a study by GoEuro. The German start-up provides a travel search engine for Europe that compares and combines air, rail, bus and car rental options. GoEuro compared the...