Three people have been remanded in custody after the death of a seven-year-old boy in Merchtem, with the child’s uncle suspected of murder and the boy’s mother and her friend suspected of failing to ...

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 ...

Kick off the weekend with an evening of jazz, rhythm and blues, as Adam Hall and the Velvet Playboys take to the stage at The Music Village. The energetic group has earned a reputation for lively ...

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 ...

Belgium is famous for its waffles, but the expression “wafelijzerpolitiek” (literally waffle iron politics) has nothing to do with food. Instead, it’s a distinctly Belgian term that captures one of ...

In several European countries, former NATO employees are under investigation for corruption, after the alliance's procurement agency, the NSPA, alerted US authorities, leading to indictments in the ...

A young Jewish doctor in occupied Belgium set out with two comrades to wait for a train. It is 19 April 1943, and these men in their twenties are quietly waiting for the 20th Jewish transport from ...

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 ...

Trams in Brussels have come a long way from the first horse-drawn services that started carrying passengers from the Porte de Namur to the Bois de la Cambre in 1869. Even with the horses attached to ...

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 ...

Europol has taken down around 4,340 websites containing violent and extremist material linked to the online network known as 'The Com', in a joint operation involving several EU member states, ...