Every day hundreds of individual asylum seekers start their journey through Brussels, which brings them to all the locations and agencies involved in their challenging quest for safety and shelter. Due to the increased media attention on the refugee crisis in August and September, most of the...

Winning a highly cherished Michelin star is one achievement; holding on to it is another. But when restaurant hotel Le Cor de Chasse moved from Barvaux to the picturesque village of Wéris in 2013, food critics continued to be wowed by owner chef Mario Elias’s fine cuisine in its latest, magnificent...

Belgium has increased its terror threat level from 2 to 3 at big sporting and cultural events, following the co-ordinated attacks in Paris on Friday night in which 129 people were killed and 352 injured. Belgian prime minister Charles Michel made the announcement late on Saturday night, after a...

Le Jardin des Bégards won a Michelin star in 2013 with local chef François Piscitello adamant that he would not compromise his creative style of cuisine. He described the award as “the cherry on the cake” of a long career in the province of Liège. Proudly self-taught, Piscitello has intuitively...

Fans of body art can seek inspiration at the Brussels Tattoo Convention held in Tour & Taxis this weekend. The sixth edition welcomes 220 of the top tattoo artists in the world, hailing from the UK, US, Canada, France, Luxembourg, Russia and Germany, among other countries. There’s also live and...

The complexity of the police and political structures in Brussels is a large part of why Belgium has supplied more jihad fighters to IS than any other country, according to federal home affairs minister Jan Jambon. According to figures from the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation,...

The government’s decision to give Bpost the contract for delivering newspapers and magazines has safeguarded 3,500 jobs that would otherwise have been at risk, according to analysis by business magazine Trends. The sum paid by the government for the service, part of a package of “services of...

Belgium is the fifth country in the world in terms of the number of doping violations, according to a 325-page report published by a World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) independent commission, writes Het Nieuwsblad . Due to its small size, Belgium has relatively few top athletes, and yet it ranks fifth...

The number of people in Belgium entitled to benefits from the National Pensions Office (NPO) increased last year to 1,938,773, or nearly one in five. That's 8.2% more than in 2010 and 2.26% more than in 2013, according to the NPO's annual report. The report shows that the federal government spends...

The Scientific Institute for Public Health (ISP) has created a public overview of the efforts of local hospitals to prevent on-site infections. The scores of 105 Belgian hospitals concerning hygiene can be examined online and will be updated every year. WIV has criticised the shortcomings of...