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Success in keeping a hotel open or a restaurant afloat is getting more difficult in the capital, recent figures revreal.
The number of bankruptcies in Belgium has increased steadily in recent months, reports RTBF. In May, nearly a thousand (988) companies had to close down.
In the Brussels-Capital Region, some 3,500 shopfronts are empty, or 13.5% of all available commercial space.
Since the 22 March terror attacks in the Brussels Airport and Maalbeek metro station, 13% more businesses have gone bankrupt in the capital than the year before.
Nearly 600 Brussels restaurants and catering businesses went bankrupt this month, including seven snack bars in the pedestrian zone, according to Horeca Brussels, the industry organisation that re
The number of bankruptcies in Belgium fell in October for the fourth month in a row, to 870, or 17.85% fewer than the same month last year.
