Education ministers of Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg have signed an agreement to recognise all higher education diplomas from the other two countries. This is the first such co-operation between three countries in the EU. In 2015, the Benelux countries agreed to automatically recognise each other’s bachelor’s and master’s diplomas. Now that recognition is extended to […]

The roof of the city’s morning wholesale produce market has been covered with almost 8,000 solar panels. It has taken three months to build this solar panel installation which is the biggest one in Brussels. The panels will provide up to a third of the market’s electricity needs – the equivalent of 590 homes. Any […]

The Saint-Luc University Hospital in Woluwe-Saint-Lambert will get a new campus, which will be built next to its current building. The new campus was designed by Brussels firm VK Architects in collaboration with the Paris-based Michel Rémon & Associés and will be built of glass and multiple levels. The old hospital building will also be […]

The overall terror threat level in Belgium would be downgraded to the level 2 but soldiers will continue to patrol major events and “sensitive” locations including places of worship and nuclear power plants. Prime minister Charles Michel announced it on Monday. The level 3 alert was introduced in January 2015 following attacks in Paris against […]

Сonsumer affairs minister Kris Peeters has announced about the new legal guarantee period for household appliances sold in Belgium. Belgium will have minimum three-year guarantee for household goods, instead of the current two years. Belgian retailers’ federation Comeos has opposed the idea, saying shops will have no choice but to increase prices if the measure […]

American fast food chain Five Guys is going to open 40 restaurants across Belgium. The first restaurant will be opened next month in Antwerp. Barack Obama once described this hamburger joint as serving “the best burgers in the world”. Similar restaurants have already been launched in Paris and London. With its slogan “Create your taste”, […]

Next summer Brussels two days of Tour de France will be held in Brussels. The capital of Belgium will start the 106th edition of the French Grand Tour in 2019, 50 years after the first victory of the legendary Belgian rider Eddy Merckx (Eddy Merckx) at the Tour de France 1969 The 2019 Tour will […]

The annual car-free day takes place every third Sunday of September and is extremely popular in Belgium. Green parties – Ecolo and Groen – have officially started a research regarding the possibility of staging a second car-free day in Brussels. The two parties would like to see an additional car-free day take place on a […]

Telecoms operators in Belgium should pay out compensation if their service is down for more than 12 hours. The announcement coincides with a difficult week for Proximus customers, many of whom lost access to their internet, telephone and television on Monday night because of a widespread failure at one of the group’s data centres. Affected […]

About 4,500 people took part in the traditional new year dip in the North Sea at Ostend this weekend. Last year the temperature of water was 4°C and this year’s bathers enjoyed a whole 8°C on Saturday. “There was a great atmosphere and about 10,000 spectators were there to cheer them along,” said Vincent Drouard […]