Jewish organizations have slammed an article in Belgian daily newspaper Le Soir on last week’s private visit of Prince Laurent of Belgium to Israel which, they say, ''is akin to a new demonisation of the State of Israel”, reports EJP’s Yossi Lempkowicz . Prince Laurent visited Tuesday and Wednesday...

Flemish universities attract the most corporate sponsorship money in the world, De Morgen reports today. A report by the Flemish Interuniversity centre for expertise (ECOOM) has found that private businesses fund 16.1% of all academic research. Flemish university receive more funding from the...

The Belgian federal government on June 21 committed €25m of non-refundable overseas development aid to help Vietnam’s response to climate change, the Vietnamese News Agency reports. The funding will go to four agreements under a programme on water management and urban development which were signed...

Professor Koen Lamberts is a cognitive psychologist with an extensive track record in experimental and theoretical research on human perception and memory. He is currently deputy vice-chancellor and provost of Warwick University. In January 2014, he will take up the post of new vice-chancellor at...

Brussels’ Bourse building, Belgium’s former stock exchange, is to become a place of pilgrimage for beer lovers, it was announced yesterday. The ‘Temple to Belgian Beer’ project finds a use for the grand 19th century building near the Grand’ Place, which is fronted by Corinthian columns and...

The Belgian plant scientist Marc Van Montagu has been awarded the 2013 World Food Prize, jointly with the American scientists Mary-Dell Chilton and Robert T. Fraley, reports the Flemish Institute for Biotechnology (VIT) . This was announced in Washington DC on Wednesday by the US Secretary of State...

Belgium’s national post service yesterday priced its forthcoming float at €14.50 a share, in a closely watched initial public offering ahead of the UK’s Royal Mail float next year, writes City A.M.’s Michael Bow . Bpost, which is 50.1 per cent owned by the government, saw minority owner CVC Capital...

A whale found beached on the shores of Greenwich has turned out to be a stunt from a Belgian arts collective, reports the Evening Standard’s Louise Jury . However they won’t be getting a visit from Greenpeace any day soon as the whale is made from fibreglass. The 17-metre specimen is an...

Production at one of the world's eight remaining Trappist breweries is again under threat, this time from the expansion of a limestone quarry which will cut off their water supply, writes The Independent’s Charlotte McDonald-Gibson . The monks who brew Rochefort beer at the Notre-Dame de Saint-Remy...