Flemish culture minister Joke Schauvliege has launched Thuis: 50 jaar migratie (Home: 50 Years of Migration), a book and programme of events to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1964 labour treaty signed with Morocco and Turkey. “When Belgium signed the labour migration treaty, the economy...

A Belgian electronics’ recycling organization, Recupel, has announced that it received 122,905 kg of consumer appliances in 2013, or just shy of 123 tonnes. Everything from home computers, printers, and TVs to name only a few, avoided the landfill and found their way to second lives. This year’s...

There are concerns that up to a thousand public buildings in the Brussels-Capital Region may be a threat to people’s health because of asbestos. The Socialist Trades Union claims that the buildings are not in accordance to the rules surrounding the cancer-causing insulation, and that some schools...

According to a new European survey, Belgians are among the most satisfied with their trains in the European Union, with 74% of citizens giving the country’s rail system a thumbs-up. Belgium trails only Finland, Britain, Ireland and Luxembourg when it comes to having a positive outlook on its nation...

The Brussels Beer Project to create atypical beers has assembled a budget of more than €50,000 in six months via crowdfunding. The initiators, two entrepreneurs in the capital, will launch two beers in January – one of them with a chocolate taste. The next step is to found a micro-brewery. Since...

The board of telecommunications giant Belgacom has approved a plan of action to better protect its IT and telecoms systems, following the recent revelation that the company’s networks had been hacked by a foreign intelligence service, probably the UK’s GCHQ. “Cyber security has always been a major...

Belgium’s commitment to get drunk drivers off the road made a strong impression this weekend when police staged a large operation across the country . The roadblocks resulted in 129 drivers exceeding the legal alcohol limit among 3,531 who were pulled aside and tested by federal police along...

Success continued to follow the Belgian singer this weekend at the 15th annual NRJ Music Awards ceremony in Cannes when he picked up trophies for best Francophone male singer and best French-language song, his megahit single ‘Formidable.’ To date, the song’s video clip on YouTube has been viewed...

In response to ongoing violence in the former French colony of the Central African Republic (CAR), Belgium has agreed to provide air support to a French-led military operation. Between December and late January, Belgium will play an integral role in a strategic airlift to transport equipment and...