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Evening and weekend births will cost more

From this summer the rate for giving birth in a Belgian hospital at evenings and weekends will become higher. Special royal decree has been signed on Friday. It will allow obstetricians to charge a higher rate for deliveries outside of ordinary weekday working hours. However, health insurance body Inami says mothers should not notice the […]

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Huge saxophone from Wallonia to New Orleans

Wallonia has donated a giant colourful saxophone to New Orleans to celebrate the jazz city’s 300th anniversary. The instrument is three-metre-tall and has 50 kg. It has safely made its way across the Atlantic and will be unveiled on Bourbon Street this Thursday. Namur artist Dimitri Perpete spent 60 hours of painting, and the saxophone […]

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€6m for trials of solar panels on water

From Flanders Today: Energy and budget minister Bart Tommelein confirmed that the government of Flanders will invest €6 million for trials of solar panels on small areas of inland water such as lakes and ponds that have no other function He says panels placed on water can be much more efficient than those on roofs: […]

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20 years anniversary of Belgian foundation Child Focus

The Belgian foundation for missing and sexually exploited children turns 20 this weekend. 20 years ago 25 parents and relatives of missing and murdered children created Child Focus. During all years of its activity the foundation has helped tens of thousands of missing and sexually exploited children. Queen Mathilde who is an Honorary president of […]

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Parking in Brussels will become cheaper

The City of Brussels will bring its parking rates in line with other municipalities across the region. So, on-street parking in the centre of Brussels will become cheaper in the coming weeks. The cost of parking for an hour is reduced from €1.50 to €1; two hours from €4 to €2 and three hours from […]

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Brussels will get new child benefit rates from 2020

Every child in the Brussels region will receive €150 per month from birth under the new system. For an only child, this amount does not change throughout their childhood and is paid until they turn 24 – unless they continue in education. For siblings, the amount increases to €160 at age 12 and €170 at […]

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Brussels Airlines unveils Smurf airplane

Brussels Airlines has got new plane with Smurfs images on it. The latest Brussels Airlines plane will join Belgian Icons fleet of planes which already has other designed planes: Tomorrowland, Tintin, Magritte and the Red Devils. Little blue figures have been created by Brussels cartoonist Pierre Culliford in 1958, exactly 60 years ago, and Brussels […]

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Atomium celebrates its 60th anniversary

The Atomium is 60 years old this year, it was built in late March 1958 That’s why many special events and happenings starting this weekend. The events are called A Love Story Since 1958. There will be three exhibitions at the Atomium and the ADAM Brussels Design Museum, collectively titled Galaxy 58, running from 23 […]

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The two-year anniversary of the attacks in Maelbeek

  Thursday is the two-year anniversary of the terrorist attacks in Brussels.On the morning of 22 March 2016, two suicide bombers detonated explosives in the Brussels Airport departure hall, while one suicide bomber blew himself up in a Maalbeek metro station in the European Quarter. Thirty-two victims were killed, half of them at Maelbeek. The […]

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Nato began a 12-week staged move to new headquarters

On Monday Nato started a 12-week staged move into its new state-of-the-art headquarters in Haren, on the Boulevard Leopold III heading to Brussels airport. The international organisation is leaving behind its old site in Evere which it has occupied since 1967. Moving 4,000 staff should be completed for mid-June. A formal inauguration will take place […]

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