If you’re a citizen of the European Union, the advantages to having Belgian nationality are few and far between – unless you have a particular love for the country, of course. Those select Belgian-only perks are the right – indeed the obligation – to vote and access to some government jobs. If you’...

The Belgian Foreign Affairs office was still without news as to the fate of seven Belgians following last Saturday’s earthquake in Nepal, according to a statement released on Wednesday evening. Earlier on Wednesday, the figure of missing Belgians had stood at 25, but the number was significantly...

Special panels installed at a Delhaize store in Brussels to drive away homeless people have been dismantled, following a compromise struck on Tuesday between local residents opposed to the idea and the Ixelles municipal authorities. Last week Delhaize had set up slanted panels to keep the homeless...

Koen Verlaeckt, secretary-general of the Flanders Department of Foreign Affairs, is traveling to the Canadian capital of Ottawa for the 3 May unveiling of a statue in honour of the Canadian doctor and soldier John McCrae. McCrae served in the trenches near Ypres during the First World War and...

A team of 20 people comprising Belgian and British archaeologists and British soldiers have been working since Monday on "the first serious archaelogical digs" to be conducted on the battlefields of Waterloo since the great battle took place. Work first started in earnest a few weeks ago when Marc...

The City of Ghent is investing €750,000 in a new building for the International School of Ghent (ISG). The school was established in 2012 for the children of foreign staff in academic institutions and technology companies from West and East Flanders. The school, currently located at the Leopolds...

From the street, I get a faint whiff of compost. Entering through the gate, the fumes from the street fade and I am met with the smell of damp organic matter. Laid out before me are rows of wooden garden beds, test plots, vines growing over trellises. In the back of the long narrow space there is a...

The 2015 tax return form is slightly more complicated than previous versions. The new tax declaration form is longer than last year’s: it includes 43 supplementary tax codes. This change is due to the 6th State Reform, which sees a large part of property tax transferred to the competency of the...

The federal committee of the socialist trade union ABVV have voted not to strike again on 12 May. The committee’s vote means the decision need no longer go to a vote of the membership. The federal committee is made up of representatives of all sector organisations and regional branches of the union...

After touching down in Kathmandu, Nepal, on Tuesday, more than 45 hours after their departure from Melsbroek military airport, Belgium’s B-Fast aid team was due to evacuate 46 Belgians and 91 Europeans from the area on Tuesday night. Immediately after landing, the team unloaded 10 tonnes of tents,...