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...

If you are missing your favourite beauty brands from home, why not plump for something new and check out what products Belgium has to offer. Be Creative Ici Paris XL is a well-known perfume and cosmetics shops with more than 285 outlets in the Benelux. It all started in 1968, with a small perfume...

Tributes were paid at the weekend to dowager queen Fabiola, who died at home at Stuyvenberg castle in Brussels on Friday. The widow of King Baudouin, she was 86. The government has declared a period of national mourning until the funeral, which takes place this Friday. All flags on official...

A 38-year-old Moroccan man was sentenced on Friday by a court in Brussels to 27 years in prison for arson in the Rida mosque, the largest Shia mosque in Brussels, in March, 2012. An imam was killed in the fire. The court found the arsonist guilty of arson causing death, possession of weapons and...

Half of Belgians are overweight, and about 14% are obese, according to the most recent health survey conducted by the Scientific Institute of Public Health (WIV-ISP). The number of overweight people in Belgium has only gone up since the first WIV-ISP health survey in 1997, when 41% of Belgians were...

The train crash at Wetteren, East Flanders, in May of 2013, which led to toxic chemicals being leaked into the environment, the death of one person and the evacuation of 2,000 homes, was partly caused by a “macho culture” that prevents drivers from admitting to fatigue, according to a report from...

Christmas markets across Belgium will carry out extra police checks to prevent alcohol abuse among people under the age of 16, said Paul Van den Meerssche of the FPS Public Health . As secondary school students across the country get ready to finish their exams later this week, the Public Health...