The bad news is that in September Belgium was revealed to have the fifth highest ecological footprint in the world, according to the Living Planet Report from the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), as measured by its consumption of natural resources. A good portion of this, says CEO of WWF-Belgium...

State-owned telecommunications utility Proximus has denied any wrongdoing in connection with the use of secret deals made in Luxembourg to avoid paying Belgian corporation tax. The denial comes after the revelation by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists that multinationals...

Police used tear gas and water cannon yesterday afternoon during a violent clash with demonstrators near Brussels South station. The demonstrators were protesting against austerity measures announced by the federal and Flemish governments, which they claim will unfairly affect workers’ incomes and...

Belgian retailers lost about 1.16% of their turnover in 2013 to shoplifting and vendor fraud, according to the Global Retail Theft Barometer released Thursday by Checkpoint Systems. Losses through shoplifting and vendor fraud, theft by staff and administrative errors, accounted for €880 million on...

Prison officers across Belgium went on a 24-hour strike as of Thursday at 22.00, reports Serge De Prez of the Christian trade union ACV-CSC. The strike affects all prisons in the country, said the trade unionist. He could not say whether all the striking officers would be replaced by police...

Belgium-based pharmaceutical company Omega Pharma NV was sold to Perrigo in a bid to expand its portfolio of over-the-counter drugs and broaden its presence in the European market. Omega founder and Chief Executive Mark Coucke signed his company over to the American international pharmaceutical...

Flemish Socialist party SP.A is standing “shoulder to shoulder” with the protesters who are marching through Brussels today, said party president Bruno Tobback. The protestors – who have come from all over Belgium to demonstrate in the capital – are upset at tough austerity measures introduced by...

The Brussels and the Flemish governments are working together to make integration courses for foreigners in Brussels compulsory. The ordinance will be submitted in the coming weeks, reports Brusselnieuws.be. The agreement is the result of a meeting between ministers Rudi Vervoort (PS) and Geert...

Businesses in Belgium have cash in hand of at least €240 million, which they are on the verge of investing, according to a study by the consultancy Deloitte. B-information, which collects financial data, delivered findings to Deloitte that show, according to 2013 tax returns, that the business...

Brussels is full of museums. You’ve roamed the galleries of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium , seen the latest exhibition in the Bozar , and peered into a Velociraptor’s mouth at the Institute of Natural Sciences . But in the quirky city of Brussels, there are certainly some peculiar...