Europe’s cocaine trade is booming and the drug’s gateway of choice is now the port of Antwerp. As the market has grown, so too have the drug gangs who find ever more ingenious ways to smuggle it in, ...

We have selected the best concerts and gigs in Brussels (and Belgian festivals) that you and your friends should not miss this August. One of the city's great hidden treasures, the Brussels music ...

Before the European Union, before the Treaty of Rome, there was Benelux. The trailblazing economic union of Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg paved the way for the European project that followed ...

Brussels’s iconic Academy of Sciences played host to the highly anticipated third edition of the Digital Ocean Forum (DOF2024) on June 13, under the auspices of the Belgian Presidency of the Council ...

It was one of the largest prisoner-of-war (POW) camps in western Europe, holding nearly 60,000 Germans from March 1945 to August 1946. Yet today Prisoner-of-War Camp 2228 looks like a non-descript ...

The ‘green’ in Green Belt? You can take that literally cycling the lush loop encircling Brussels. This 126-km bike route is a grab bag of enticing vistas, sweeping landscapes, verdant valleys, elegant ...

With the war in Ukraine sparking the biggest rethink of energy policy in recent years, a crisis looms for European policy-makers, for its heavy industries and for its hard-pressed consumers. However, ...

Eyebrows were raised when the Flemish Parliament commemorated a convicted Holocaust denier just two weeks before the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. A minute's silence was observed on ...

Brussels is the most cosmopolitan city in Europe, being home to 189 nationalities with almost 40% of its residents being foreign nationals. Values of openness and respect for diversity are strongly ...

24 April marks the 10th anniversary of the collapse of the Rana Plaza factory building in Bangladesh. The deadly tragedy was a turning point for the textile and garment industry, as the Bangladesh ...

Several changes will come into force on Saturday 1 February, from public transport price increases to reimbursements for diseases. Other, non-official transport decisions will also affect people in ...