After more than a year of lobbying, Belgium’s independent film producers have successfully persuaded the government to move forward and reform the country’s film tax shelter. The proposed reform, which must pass both the Belgian Parliament and European Commission, will restructure the tax shelter...

Internet and cable provider Telenet could lose up to one-third of its clients if a deal made more than five years ago is struck down by the Council of State. This week the auditor of the council issued an opinion in the so-called Interkabel case, which, if followed by the council, would annul the...

World-renowned coma expert Steven Laureys of the Coma Science Group at Liège University has been able to awake patients temporarily who have been in a coma for months, or even years. Laureys worked specifically with patients in a condition of “minimum consciousness,” which is less serious than the...

According to news reports, dozens of people living in Belgium have been subjected to a major fraud worth upwards of €100 million. Stéphane Bleus, The alleged “Madoff” Belgian, referring to the massive American case involving Bernie Madoff, is said to have defrauded some 70 victims out of their...

Uncertainty was put to rest Sunday, as Belgium’s King Philippe signed into law the right of minors to seek euthanasia. The king’s constitutional action ends the pressure placed on the head of state by many lobby groups urging him not to approve the country’s controversial law passed by the Lower...

The Belgian film The Broken Circle Breakdown won the César last Friday evening for Best Foreign Feature. The Césars are France’s annual national awards, the highest film honour in the country. One of the film’s leads, Johan Heldenberg, was on hand to accept the award ( pictured ) in the absence of...

Now that winter 2013/2014 is nearing its imminent conclusion, the stats are in and it is official: this winter has been the second warmest ever recorded for Belgium, or since record-keeping began in 1833. And as earlier reported in the Bulletin, you need only to ask winter clothing retailers how...

The Belgian tech industry’s knowledge centre, Sirris, has inaugurated the new infrastructure at its test and development centre for companies in Diepenbeek, near Hasselt. Sirris has invested €850,000 in the centre, mostly for precision machines that manufacture on a micro-level. An additional €100,...

When 30-year-old Delphine Thizy, a consultant in social performance, moved from France to Brussels four years ago, she settled down on Rue de l’Aqueduc. A year later, she moved with her Italian boyfriend to an apartment on Rue du Bailli, above one of the street's many hairdressers. “Rent is quite...

What do you do? Since 2008 I have been working as a Helpdesk officer in the Information Department of a rehabilitation hospital. Together with 2 other colleagues, we resolve various IT problems and do network maintenance. Do you enjoy the work? Yes definitely. The work varies, with some days being...