On October 25, 1555, the grandees of the Habsburg Netherlands gathered in the Great Hall of the Coudenberg Palace in Brussels to witness an extraordinary event. A weary old man with a grey beard and a ...

Flanders’ battle for linguistic rights in Belgium is well documented. Yet until the last century, Walloons spoke their own regional language – Walloon – which UNESCO labels "definitely endangered". C’ ...

Manneken-Pis, literally “little man pee,” in the Dutch dialect of Marols or “le petit Julien,” in French, is one of Brussels’ most famous and beloved citizens. But what’s the story behind this iconic, ...

Ingrid did not plan to leave Belgium for good. She arrived in Warsaw for a three-month internship at the Belgian embassy, fully expecting to return to Brussels afterwards. Within weeks, though, she ...

With five serious incidents in five days, drug-related violence has returned to the Brussels municipality of Saint-Gilles after a week of score-settling between rival drug gangs, leaving residents ...

Major US technology companies have tapped into the European far-right to help pressure the European Commission into stripping back regulations for its sector, according to a new report released on ...

Calls to drop the controversial appointment of Meta’s former chief EU lobbyist – who became an MEP in 2024 – are growing in Brussels, amid accusations of a conflict of interest. At the start of the ...

Interview with Levent Altan, Executive Director of Victim Support Europe (VSE), and Saskia Bricmont, a Greens/EFA Member of the European Parliament Crime can affect any of us, at any time and 75 ...

Belgium may be divided politically and linguistically, but one thing all regions and communities can agree on is the beloved national biscuit: Speculoos. Much like beer, chocolate, waffles or fries, ...

Instituted in 2024 out of fear of a non-existent ‘youth gateway effect’, the ban has instead driven over half of consumers to a black market, provoking both a doubling in youth vaping, and increase in ...

Contemporary Belgian politics often seems too complex for its good, but the political landscape in the Middle Ages and the early modern period could have been even more bizarre. Belgium was once a ...

Belgium is home to several education systems, with one for each language community (French, Dutch and German), as well as religious and secular establishments. If this weren't enough, there are also ...