Andrée ‘Nadine’ Dumon, who died earlier this year, was a fearless guide of Belgium’s Comet Line, helping Allied airmen evade Nazi capture in World War II. Arrested in 1942, she endured brutal ...

A historian by training, liberal by conviction and rather approachable, Bernard Quintin is the man of the hour. Amid the rise of insecurity in the heart of Europe, he's keen on implementing structural ...

Construction works in Brussels feel endless – but much of it is part of a long-term vision to develop a "mixed and compact" city, says the director of Perspective Brussels, the regional centre of ...

Daily life will be disrupted by another strike in Belgium on Tuesday (20 May), as workers in all public services will protest against the Federal Government's plans for austerity. What disruptions are ...

The Coller-Dolittle Prize for inter-species two-way communication was awarded last week to a decade-long research project on dolphins in the waters of Florida but there is still some way to go to ...

Weight-loss medicine Wegovy, sometimes called a "little brother" to the diabetes drug Ozempic, will be in pharmacies in Belgium from 1 July. For the time being, it will not be reimbursed by insurance.

Pope Leo XIV has called for greater unity during his inaugural mass, while criticising the effects of unchecked capitalism and the quest for power. The Pope expressed concern about the global ...

A plan to construct an open-air swimming pool in a Brussels canal has been scrapped after a city official branded the project "unrealistic." The lido had been in development since 2009 when an ...

The EU's Entry-Exit System (EES) will gradually be rolled out at the European Union's external borders over the coming 180 days – aiming to improve security, speed up the border check process, and ...

The story begins in 1940. The German army has swept through France and Belgium. Despite the Miracle of Dunkirk in May-June, when nearly 340,000 Allied troops are evacuated across the Channel, hundreds ...

While Belgium is a good student in terms of access to contraceptives, the responsibility and burden of contraceptive use still lies mainly with women, according to a new study by the Institute for the ...