In a nursing home in Zoutleeuw, in Flemish Brabant, lives Belgium’s oldest resident, Fanny Godin, who turns 112 years old today. She still takes a daily stroll on her own through the corridors and reads book after book about World War One. Another 186 days, and she will become the oldest Belgian...

Brussels' crisis gives second-hand garments new life Most Belgian locals and expats would say it is hard to look positively upon the 2008 crisis that took a hold of the Belgian economy and still affects us today. Yet oddly enough, one market has the same crisis to thank for its economic prosperity...

Research consultancy The Gallup Institute carries out an annual investigation into how happy people are in each country, by conducting telephone interviews with 1,000 inhabitants from around the world. The researchers question people, for example, on what interesting things they have learned lately...

The New Flemish Alliance (N-VA), under party leader Bart De Wever ( pictured ), is the big winner in yesterday’s Belgian elections. The Flemish nationalists maintain their position as the largest party in the country, taking home 33.6% of the votes at the federal level, and 32.9% at the Flemish...

An unidentified gunman shot members of the public in and around the Jewish Museum of Belgium in Brussels on Saturday, killing three at the scene. Another man is in critical condition in a local hospital. Police have issued photos and security footage of the attacker and appealed for witnesses. On...

Last Friday saw the state funeral of former Belgian prime minister Jean-Luc Dehaene, who died on May 15 in France at Onze-Lieve-Vrouw church in Vilvoorde, just outside of Brussels. It was, as the family had requested, an informal ceremony, with Jacques Brel’s love song “Ne Me Quitte Pas” playing as...

Thirty percent of the employees under 30 in the private sector in Belgium work part-time, more than half the number in 2008. Finding full-time work is a problem for young people, conclude De Standaard and Het Nieuwsblad , based on figures released from payroll and HR company SD Worx. The figures...

No shower, no soap, no flush toilet, no TV, no radio, no refrigerator, no freezer, no lawn mower, no vacuum, no meat... Evelien Matthijssen - nicknamed Green Evelien - and her family have drastically reduced their ecological footprint, simply because they “are happier this way”. A few years ago,...

The ‘friendsetters’ at @Seven sure know how to throw a party and, for their part, the Greeks know how to attend one. Last night’s event, Greece Is the Word, at the Bouche à Oreille simultaneously marked the official closing of The Bulletin’s Brussels International Days and celebrated the current...

Depending on the region, one-quarter to one-fifth of voters in Belgium are still undecided in the last days before the federal election on Sunday, May 25. In the latest entrance poll by global market research company Ipsos, the Flemish nationalist party N-VA, led by Bart De Wever ( pictured ),...