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 […]

The third edition of the flower festival started on Friday in Brussels city hall. Brussels’ landmark bronze sculpture of a boy peeing, Manneken Pis, has received a stylish headdress of flowers on the occasion of Flowertime. On Thursday morning, Brussels artist and florist Geoffroy Mottart had the honour of creating the fancy hat for Belgium’s […]

The Belgian tax authorities started to investigate the financial activities of US internet giant Google in Belgium. Belgian subsidiary of Google confirms in its 2016 annual report that the authorities began an investigation last year into the company’s 2014 and 2015 accounts. In Belgium, as in England, France and Italy, most recently, Google is suspected […]

According to the annual report of the Federal Agency for Occupational Risks (Fedris), wrist tendonitis has the highest percentage of workplace injury in Belgium. In 2016, the Agency handled a total of 9,672 applications for recognition of an occupational illness or injury, and nearly a third of these were related to tendinopathy. In addition to […]

Businesswoman Jamie McCourt has been nominated by US President Donald Trump to become the new US ambassador to France. It was declared by the White House on Wednesday. The nomination is remarkable for the fact that the president has already announced his intention to appoint McCourt as US ambassador to Belgium. The proposal to nominate […]