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 […]

According to new figures from the region’s job centre Actiris Brussels unemployment down 6% in a year. Actiris had 91,091 registered jobseekers on its records last month, a 5.8% drop on December 2016. The number of jobseekers under 25 fell 10.1% over the past year. Despite an overall improvement in the figures, unemployment among over-50s […]

Intergovernmental agreement between Belgium and the Netherlands about the change of the state border entered into force on 1 January 2018. The Dutch-Belgian border has been slightly redrawn on the Meuse river near Maastricht. A three-hectare peninsula switches from Dutch to Belgian ownership, while Belgium hands over 16 hectares of land to the Netherlands. The […]

Many stores are going to offer heavy discounts from day one as they seek to clear high levels of stock. Retail federation Comeos, which represents big brands including Primark and Zara, said many stores would be offering 50% discounts from the very beginning of the sales, which run from 3-31 January. The winter and summer […]