From voter registration to campaign finance, EU election monitors vow impartiality as Zambia heads into its general elections ...

As we enter this rather warm month of August, many of our readers will be holidaying away and taking a well-deserved rest. Yet back in Belgium, new measures and laws come into place from the start of ...

The European Commission has approved two Dutch state-aid schemes worth €290 million to support sustainable aviation fuels. The Netherlands told the Commission it plans to introduce two programmes ...

Several European countries outside the EU have said they will align with new EU sanctions targeting people and organisations linked to actions undermining Ukraine’s territorial integrity and ...

On a grey Belgian spring day, people in dark suits hurry up and down Antwerp’s Hoveniersstraat carrying black leather briefcases. Some pause to talk with one another for a moment, but in the city’s ...

Machetes, clubs, pickaxes and spears. These were the weapons used by Rwandans as they slaughtered their fellow countrymen during the 1994 genocide. They were used against colleagues, neighbours, ...

Belgium's politics is famously complicated, and people can often no longer see the forest for the trees. Therefore, The Brussels Times will provide an overview of the different political parties, how ...

Described as short and plump, plainly dressed Sister Godfrieda did not stand out, apart from the fact that she wore a nun’s habit. But after she was arrested for a series of murders in the picturesque ...

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 ...

In a recent investigation, Belgian broadcaster RTBF uncovered cases of women in Brussels who said they were secretly filmed by men wearing Meta's "smart" Ray-Bans, often during unsolicited ...

Electric cars are involved in 50% more traffic accidents than their petrol and diesel counterparts, according to a study by insurer Axa. The high number of accidents has actually nothing to do with ...