The most well-known American tech entrepreneur, Microsoft founder and the richest man in the world – Bill Gates, visited Brussels last week, and met with Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel and the Royal Couple. Bill Gates is now on a world tour to promote innovation in health care, particularly in the developing world. During a […]

US president will most likely be visiting Brussels in May for the next Nato summit, while his second-in-command is in Brussels this coming Monday . Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel said this week on Twitter that the summit would take place on 25 May and that the organisation’s new headquarters would be open for the […]

Many of Brussels municipalities made it possible for drivers to pay for on-street parking by SMS text message. Schaerbeek has had text message payments for some time. For a month now, Molenbeek and Forest have also started to use this method of payment, and next month, Anderlecht will join. François Robert, spokesman for Parking Brussels, […]

Secretary of State for Social fraud, Privacy and the North Sea, Philippe De Backer, has announced a plan to extend the new flexi-job status to retirees who want to work part time in the hospitality industry. This project started in late 2015 and refers to part-time work in hotels, bars and restaurants in addition to […]

Drivers have been advised to be extra-vigilant on the roads in the coming days as overnight temperatures fall below freezing across a large part of Belgium. Ice, mist and fog are likely on country roads on Thursday morning, especially in the south, where daytime temperatures are not forecast to get above 4°C, according to official […]

The White House has confirmed that Mike Pence will visit Brussels on the 20th of February. Pence will first visit Munich, where he will participate in an international security conference. After that he will travel to Belgium to have meetings with representatives of the federal government, the European Union and Nato. These meetings will be […]

The deepest swimming pool Brussels has opened an underwater restaurant – serving lobster, caviar and champagne from €99 per person. The Pearl, at Nemo 33 in Uccle, is a four-cubic-metre sphere, five metres below the water surface. It took a year to research, build and test. “It’s a kind of cocoon where you can chat […]

Personalised number plates for vehicles were introduced in Belgium in 2014 and have already brought in €15.3 million of income. 12,956 personalised Belgian plates are now in circulation – new figures released by mobility minister François Bellot. When they launched three years ago, personalised plates cost €1,000. Since December 2015 their price has doubled to […]