The City of Brussels wants to extend the pedestrian zone in the city centre. According to a recent draft of the Brussels government’s new Regional Plan for Sustainable Development (PRDD), additional 25km² will be added by 2025, and 40km² by 2040. The Brussels Capital Region is also considering closing a number of Brussels’ tunnels by […]

The new rector of the Free University of Brussels (VUB) has said that the institution should become multilingual. “We are a Dutch-speaking university but have to position ourselves more as multilingual to better prepare students for the new international reality,” Caroline Pauwels told De Standaard. Pauwels said that other languages should be introduced into bachelor’s […]

Dirk Wouters has become a new ambassador of the Kingdom of Belgium to the United States of America. Ambassador Dirk Wouters presented his credentials to President Barack Obama during a White House ceremony last week. Wouters worked since 2011 as Permanent Representative of Belgium to the EU. Dirk Wouters is from Brasschaat in the Flemish […]

In 2017 Belgium’s federal crisis centre will launch a text messaging system to warn people in the case of a terror attack or natural disaster, writes Het Laatste Nieuws. “We are still discussing its implementation with the telecom operators,” says the FPS Interior.   The system will use geolocation data to send a text message […]