The ten largest food companies in the world, called the Big Ten, are together responsible for CO2 emissions that are 50% higher than that of Belgium, according to the report ‘A Climate of Secrecy’, published today by the NGO Oxfam. The Big Ten produce about 263.7 million tons of greenhouse gases...

Starting your own business can be an ambitious and sometimes frightening venture. Add the fact that you’d like to start your business in a foreign country and the project gets downright risky. Still, in Belgium more expats are making the leap of entrepreneurial faith than ever. “I have noticed an...

Anderlecht won their third consecutive Belgian football league title yesterday – their 33rd overall – with a 3-1 win over Lokeren on the final day of the season. The victory gave the Brussels club a two-point edge over runners-up Standard Liège, with third-placed Club Brugge a further point behind...

Police in Brussels have arrested a man thought to be a member of the notorious Brabant Killers, who carried out a wave of murderous attacks in Belgium in the 1980s. The man denies any involvement. The Brabant Killers, also known as the Nivelles Gang, were responsible for a series of violent crimes...

The crime rate in Belgium declined significantly in the past year, writes Het Laatste Nieuws , based on figures from the federal police. Belgium scores better in 2013 than in 2012, when more than 1 million crimes were registered, on par with the average of the last decade. Last year the number...

Medical screening of each participant before a mass sporting event should be mandatory, according to Pedro Brugada, heart specialist at UZ Brussel, and sports doctor Chris Goossens, following Sunday’s death by heart failure of one of the runners of the 20km of Brussels. "People overestimate...

Grocery shopping in Belgium is about to become more affordable, writes La Libre Belgique based on a study by market research agency Nielsen. Currently, the price of food products in Belgium is on average 7 to 14% higher than in neighbouring countries, a difference that increased sharply between...

The former Belgian prime minister Jean-Luc Dehaene died yesterday at the age of 73. A Flemish Christian-Democrat with roots in Bruges, Dehaene died following a fall in France, where he was on holiday with his wife. Dehaene, who earned a variety of nicknames over the years, such as “the Flemish...

A truck driver who caused an accident yesterday on the E17 motorway at Zwijnaarde, near Ghent, has been taken into custody. The man is reported to be a 39-year-old Romanian national. Two people, a Dutch couple in their 50s, died in the accident. The accident took place on the Antwerp-bound...

Police officers in Brussels are no longer allowed to take patrol dogs or horses with them to the front line at riots or demonstrations, due to too many incidents, according to Interior Minister Joëlle Milquet. De Standaard and Het Nieuwsblad report that the use of police dogs and horses in Brussels...