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Brussels art and design museum ADAM opens today

11.12.2015 - In category: Residence Permit EU

Brussels adds another museum to its city fabric with the opening of a brand new museum today in the Trade Mart building, 100m away from the Atomium in the Heysel exhibition park north of the city. The official inauguration of the Art & Design Atomium Museum (ADAM) took place earlier this week and was attended […]

Fun for little children

09.12.2015 - In category: Residence Permit EU

From 2 to 30 December 2015 at the Office of Early Childhood. For children from 0 to 3 years. Seventh edition of ‘Fun for little children’ (Plaisirs des tout-petits) during Winter Wonders 2015. The activities are aimed at children and their parents: Cambodian Art (Khmer dance), djembe, adventures on the moon, a trip with Lily, […]

Vote for Brussels as coolest Christmas market in Europe!

04.12.2015 - In category: Residence Permit EU

Vote for your favorite Christmas market in Europe From 1st December to 10th December Winter in Europe is a wonderful time to visit the most beautiful Christmas markets. If you are looking for Christmas presents and dream of the lovely smell of a Christmas tree or the lovely sound of Christmas carols, please dive into […]

Belgians spend €350 million a year on Saint Nicholas Day gifts

03.12.2015 - In category: Residence Permit EU

Belgians spend an average of €350 million each year on gifts for the holiday of Saint Nicholas, writesDe Morgen. The 6 December holiday is a big one for gift-giving in Belgium, according to figures from the West Flemish consultancy WES, which surveyed 2,000 Belgian adults and found that 58% of them buy presents for their […]

Molenbeek is new tourist hotspot

01.12.2015 - In category: Residence Permit EU

Molenbeek is more popular than ever, writes De Morgen. Not only the federal police have been visiting the Brussels commune over the past few weeks, but a number of curious Belgians and foreigners as well. The new flood of tourists are interested in learning more about the place where accused terrorists like Salah Abdeslam got […]

Nearly 350,000 Europeans have asked Google to ‘forget’ them

27.11.2015 - In category: Residence Permit EU

Eighteen months after the European Court of Justice ruled that search engines may be required to remove links to websites containing sensitive personal data from their search results, 348,085 Europeans have filed such a request with Google. The highest number of requests came from France and Germany, Google reports, with 73,399 and 60,198 applications, respectively. […]

Brussels schools and metro to return to normal on Wednesday

24.11.2015 - In category: Residence Permit EU

The Brussels region has maintained its terror alert at level 4, the highest level possible, Belgian prime minister Charles Michel announced at a government press conference on Monday. Schools in Brussels will reopen on Wednesday – as will the metro and underground tram system. The rest of Belgium will remain on level 3 out of […]

Christmas lights in the shopping streets of the centre of ‪‎Brussels‬ from 25 November 2015

21.11.2015 - In category: Residence Permit EU

From 25 November 2015 until 12 January 2016, the shopping streets in the centre of Brussels have special Christmas lights. And at the Place Agora people can send their wishes into the sky by pushing a button on the interactive wishing tree. [vimeo 144912377 w=500 h=281]

Belgium joins rest of Europe in minute of silence

15.11.2015 - In category: Residence Permit EU

On Monday at 12.00, citizens across Europe are being asked to observe a minute of silence for the victims of Friday’s terror attacks in Paris, according to a joint statement from the Heads of State and Government of the European Union and the presidents of the European institutions. “This is an attack against us all,” […]

Brussels buys €4,000 high-tech bins that send a message when full

12.11.2015 - In category: Residence Permit EU

Brussels city hall is to buy a batch of high-tech rubbish bins that send out a message when they need emptying, at a cost of €4,000 each. The connected bins have already been tried out in New York, Amsterdam and Strasbourg – and 18 of them will enter service in the Brussels pedestrian zone by […]