A first look inside the renovated Bourse and the Belgian Beer World For the first time in its history, the Brussels Bourse will be opened to the general public. Be the first to discover the building ...

The cost of walking away On 31 January 2003, Belgium passed a law to gradually phase out nuclear power. It set a clear deadline: 2025. The decision, rooted in a coalition deal between Francophone ...

The unfathomable scale of justice The hulking Palace of Justice in Brussels, where the main law courts are based, looms like a latter-day Acropolis over the old city. But few people alive have seen it ...

In the wake of the pandemic, a social crisis brews in Brussels The aftershocks of the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic risk pushing a sizeable portion of Brussels residents over the brink of ...

Reviving the golden age of the luxury hotel in Brussels For nearly 100 years, the Grand Hotel Astoria was the destination in Brussels, frequented by dignitaries and celebrities. But it closed in 2007 ...

More than 100 volunteers worked non-stop for six hours on Thursday morning to decorate the Grand Place cobblestones with a giant floral artwork.

“If you do not allow support for the job of a sex worker, like a bookkeeper for example, then you are making sure that the work is de facto not recognised as an actual job. But eradicating ...

Airbnb's impact on Brussels' real estate market, with over 30% of properties in some areas converted into tourist accommodations.

By 1930, the Belgian authorities introduced ethnicity on Rwandan identity papers. The concepts of Hutu and Tutsi, initially social categories, would become ‘races’, and Rwandan society would slowly ...

Europe’s language revolution, now more visible than ever How successful are European countries at unifying their populations linguistically? Europe’s rapid linguistic transformation can now be ...