A new car-sharing lane will be tested out on the E411 motorway into Brussels, reserved for vehicles with at least three people on board. The pilot scheme will allow car-pool drivers to avoid traffic by using the existing bus and taxi lane instead. A similar test zone will be set up in the other direction […]

The Belgian government has developed a website for viewing an entire career history online: mycareer.be, reports Knack. Visitors to the site use their Belgian e-ID to log in and view all of the places they have ever worked, how much they earned and how much pension they have built up. In the past, this information […]

Electric bicycles are becoming more and more popular in Brussels and worldwide. As a result, a new e-bike sharing scheme will be launched in the capital from September. Two years ago, the Minister of Mobility Pascal Smet noted that riding a bicycle in Brussels is facing problems with the infrastructure and many hills of the […]

The new film, The Racer and the Jailbird (Le Fidèle) by Belgian director Michaël R. Roskam, was nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, which will represent Belgium in March 2018. It is not the first time the filmmaker enters the prestigious Academy Awards; Roskam won a nomination in 2011 with his debut […]

A year ago, the Free University of Brussels (VUB) has launched its new English-language bachelor of Social Science study programme. The number of students enrolled in this programme doubled during this year. In the coming academic year, the VUB’s first English-language bachelor is expected to draw more students than any other programme. Last year, 122 […]

Foreign Affairs of Belgium opened emergency hotline after Thursday’s terror attack in Barcelona. Federal foreign affairs minister Didier Reynders confirmed that one Dutch-speaking Belgian woman was among the fatal victims of attack. The Belgian Consulate has contacted the family and the death has been confirmed by the Guardia Civil. In the wake of the attack, […]

In the coming years, Belgium needs more than 1 million new highly educated people to join its workforce. Therefore the country is going to attract highly educated workers from abroad. The number of jobs for highly educated people is on the rise in Belgium and there are strong predictions from researchers that in the coming […]

The Flemish Community Commission (VGC) in Brussels is creating extra child-care facilities, with two new crèches – one in Ixelles and one in Saint-Josse – as well as the extension of an existing facility in Schaerbeek. Extra child-care facilities with two new crèches will appear in Ixelles and Saint-Josse. It will be an initiative of […]