Call it an early gift for many Belgians this year as mobile phone bills are set to drop. Consumer Affairs Minister Johan Vande Lanotte has announced an agreement with Belgium’s four major mobile phone companies that will see fees drop for many customers. The deal has the telecom giants set to offer...

Hundreds of Afghan asylum seekers are enduring the cold, wet weather as they protest in Mons to force Belgium’s Prime Minister Ellio di Rupo to meet with them. More than 300 protesters marched from Brussels to Mons this weekend, where di Rupo is also the town’s mayor, and set-up camp in front of...

What is your job? For four years I’ve had a shop, Hippy Chic, in the centre of Leuven, selling clothing, accessories and jewellery. I’m all alone in the shop, so I do everything: taking care of stock, placing orders, unpacking deliveries, setting prices, labelling, selling, cleaning, managing the...

It is perhaps unfair to smear legendary Liverpudlian icons the Beatles with the same brush we use to paint a picture of England’s latest pop sensations One Direction. The latter have in truth much more to do with the likes of Menudo and New Kids on the Block. But John, George, Ringo and Paul were...

Brussels suffered only “limited” disruption yesterday, police said, as an estimated 10,000 took part in protests to coincide with the European Summit taking place in the city. About 50 trade unions, NGOs and farmers’ organisations called for “another Europe”. The groups are united under the banner...

A decrease in serious accidents along motorways in Wallonia is being attributed to the presence of radar cameras. Although not popular among all drivers, the figures show that lives are being saved because of them. According to the statistics, the number of highway deaths in areas patrolled by...

According to a health study undertaken by human resource company Securex, close to one in seven Belgian workers are drinking beyond healthy limits. The survey of a thousand workers revealed that 15 percent are at a much greater risk of suffering liver disease, cardiovascular disorders, cancer,...

British prime minister David Cameron joined Irish Taoiseach Enda Kenny yesterday for a visit to First World War sites in West Flanders. The two leaders toured five memorials and cemeteries from the 1914-1918 conflict before attending a European Council summit in Brussels. Britain and Ireland have...

The Belgian government is set to end excessive annual salaries of CEOs working for semi-public companies, beginning with head of telecom Belgacom. The new maximum yearly compensation will be limited to 650,000 euros, with the yet-to-be named new Belgacom CEO given a base salary of 500,000 euros...

Hennen ( pictured ) arrived in Brussels from Liège to practice European competition law in 2007 but soon decided to take a break and start his own business. He launched Smartflats with business partner (and fellow Liège native) Alexandre Szmaj in 2012. They began with one apartment in the happening...