The series of shootings in Brussels last week are the result of a new drug-related turf war, police sources believe. At 05:50 on Wednesday morning, just a few metres from the Porte de Hal, the fourth ...

On Sunday, nearly 8.5 million Belgians will vote in federal, European and regional elections. The latest polls have given an indication to the possible winners, losers and how the next five years ...

Skeletons, black death and migration: the discovery of thousands of skeletons in the main square of Belgium’s Sint Truiden ignited the largest DNA study in the world for one single cemetery – ...

Woody Allen is synonymous with New York, Federico Fellini loved Rome while Jean-Luc Godard is indelibly linked with Paris. For Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, two-time winners of the Palme d’Or and ...

Taken together, public authorities and international institutions take up about one third of office space in Brussels, experts estimate. And a 2024 study by CBRE showed that public sector transactions ...

The Albert Canal was built for three primary reasons, as Liliane Stinissen of the Vlaamse Waterweg that manages it on the Flemish side (Société Publique Wallonie serves the Walloon side) succinctly ...

The life and death of Charles V, who ruled Europe’s greatest empire from Brussels. Holy Roman Emperor Charles V was the most powerful man in Europe in the early 16th century, running a territory that ...

By 1930, the Belgian authorities introduced ethnicity on Rwandan identity papers. The concepts of Hutu and Tutsi, initially social categories, would become ‘races’, and Rwandan society would slowly ...

This week, Liverpool FC are back in Brussels for only the second time since the deadly Heysel Stadium Disaster on 29 May 1985 – where 39 football fans were killed because of fan trouble caused by ...

How did the prison system come to be viewed so negatively? The past and present of Saint-Gilles prison gives us an idea. Inaugurated in 1884 and hailed as a "modern prison" at the time, the impressive ...

By Alberto Gomez Hernandez, Policy Manager at the World Vapers' Alliance. An Economics graduate of the University Carlos III of Madrid and a Masters graduate in Economics and Finance from the ...

Mathieu Michel is struggling to find the right word. We are standing in the imposing cathedral-like atrium of the Palace of Justice in Brussels, known as the Salle des Pas Perdus – which loosely ...