Brussels-City council has approved a plan to build four new underground car parks in the city as part of the district’s new mobility plan – including one under the flea market at Place du Jeu de Balle, which gathered 20,000 signatures opposing the plan in just a few days. The meeting at Brussels...

Brussels will ring in the New Year with a fireworks display, according to the programme for the city’s New Year’s celebration. The news comes after just last week it was announced that fireworks may not be possible at the event’s new location, De Brouckère, reports brusselnieuws.be. The festivities...

A new gas-fired power station in Vilvoorde, just outside Brussels, came on-stream yesterday and is ready to supply the strategic reserve of electricity required for the winter, said power company E.ON. There is a threat of brownouts this winter due to three of the country’s nuclear reactors being...

Seven of Belgium’s ten poorest municipalities are located in the Brussels-Capital Region, according to figures from the FPS Economy. Sint-Joost-ten-Node/Saint-Josse-ten-Noode ( pictured ) has the lowest average income in the country, and Sint-Martems-Latem, just outside of Ghent, has the highest...

Belgium needs to catch up when it comes to e-commerce, or online shopping capabilities, said digital agenda minister Alexander De Croo during an e-commerce trade fair in Kortrijk. The minister emphasised the enormous opportunities that e-commerce offers in the European market, and said that Belgium...

The number of armed robberies in the area of Brussels City and Ixelles/Elsene is on the decline, with 49 incidents so far in 2014, reports brusselnieuws.be. That is less than the previous year, and significantly less than several years ago. In 2009, for example, there were 191 reported armed...

Luc De Vos, lead singer of the Flemish band Gorki, died at the weekend at the age of 52. According to an autopsy ordered by the Ghent prosecutor’s office, the cause of death was acute multiple organ failure. Both foul play and suicide have been ruled out, and no further details have been released...

A leading doctor has called for more inspections of emergency services and intensive care departments after several hospitals in Belgium were found to be generating extra income through dubious methods. In 17% of cases, an emergency room doctor refers the patient to another specialist, but in some...

The number of accommodations listed on the website Airbnb.com in Belgium increased from 3,000 to 5,000 in the past year. In Brussels, the number of accommodations increased by 174% in 2014, reports Le Soir . Airbnb, the website where individuals can offer a house or room for rent to tourists, has...

Agriculture Minister Joke Schauvliege has announced a new measure for the protection of purebred dogs. As of January, breeders of pedigree dogs will be required to register their dogs and carry out a mandatory blood test on the animals, in order to prevent the breeding of sick animals, report Het...