The Belgian Football Association has officially applied to become co-organiser of the European Football Championship in 2020, it announced yesterday during a press conference in Brussels’ City Hall. Euro 2020 will be played in 13 different countries. It took a long time for an agreement to be...

The Brussels municipality of Schaarbeek is the only Belgian candidate selected for the Mayors Challenge, an ideas competition for innovative urban projects. To collect information on the energy consumption of its houses, Schaarbeek wants to deploy a drone that will fly over the houses and create 3D...

The food industry in Belgium grew last year by 1.5% to a value of more than €48 billion, according to the latest annual report from the industry federation Fevia. Taken together with a shrinkage of 3.3% across the industry in 2013, this means the food sector is now the country’s largest sector,...

Most Belgian shoppers still prefer to shop in physical stores instead of online via a mobile device, according to a survey by marketing and technology agency DigitasLBI. In a comparison of 12 countries, Belgians come out as the least likely to purchase online via their smartphone or tablet. "There...

Brussels’ largest taxi company Taxi Verts has launched a new app, eCab, for smartphones and tablets. Taxis Verts is launching the app shortly after the commotion around the ban on Uber, a private rideshare app, in the capital. “The timing is a coincidence,” says Michel Pêtre Taxi Verts. "We live in...

Brussels’ student population has grown by one-fifth in 10 years’ time, according to a new study by the Brussels Studies Institute, the platform for research on Brussels. With about 86,000 students enrolled in higher education – about one-quarter of the total student population in Belgium – the...

The new internet domain names ending with the extensions .vlaanderen, .gent and .brussels are expected to become operational by the end of this year or early next year after being approved this week by the international body Icann, which manages domain names. Popular extensions, such as .com, .net...

Three of the ten people looking to ban the second weekend of the 10th anniversary edition of the Tomorrowland dance festival in Boom have dropped the charges. They gave up after being threatened, writes Het Laatste Nieuws . The decision to extend the festival was challenged in court by 10 residents...

In 2013, Brussels counted 106 same-sex marriages, more than any other city in Belgium, according to figures from the FPS Economy. Antwerp follows in second place with just over 90 couples. The majority of gay marriages in Brussels last year were between two men; only 42 lesbian couples tied the...

The number of high-speed internet connections in Belgium increased sharply in 2013, so that 35% of the fixed internet connections are now faster than 10 Mbps. According to a report published by Akamai, a leading provider of cloud services, this puts Belgium in seventh place among countries with a...