The Federal Finance Department is facing scrutiny after it emerged that its civil servants spend a total of 1,022 working hours rehearsing for and playing in its in-house orchestra. 1,022 working days ...

The Red Cross in Flanders is taking steps to reduce Belgium’s dependency on supplies of blood plasma from the US. According to a report in Friday’ edition of the daily ‘De Standaard’, Belgium ...

Despite a slight breach of the agreed spending limit in 2025, the European Commission says that Belgium’s federal budget remains “on track”.

A number of local police zones in Flanders hardly carry out any drink-driving checks at night. This is clear from figures VRT ...

American tourists that were visiting Belgium at the start of this month say that they were threatened by a man wielding a ...

On Wednesday evening, ahead of a European fixture Spanish Atlético Madrid football supporters smashed a window of a De Lijn bus. Another bus was also damaged. At the end of last year, Spanish football ...

Joseph Baron Van Damme, known as José Van Dam, has passed away, the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel has announced. The celebrated opera Belgian singer enjoyed a distinguished international career and ...

Francophone singer Essyla, aged 29, will represent Belgium at the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna (Austria) in May ...

According to new figures from DogID and CatID that were released by the Flemish Animal Welfare Minister Ben Weyts ...

Top Northern Ireland darts player Josh Rock has a rather unusual explanation for his disappointing performance in the Premier League Darts tournament at the AFAS Dome in Antwerp last week. According ...

Ramadan started last night... at least according to Google. In practice, however, it's more complicated than that, and many Muslims were still waiting for confirmation of when their month of fasting ...

In Ghent archaeologists have uncovered part of the Spanish Castle. This is the fortress that Emperor Charles V had built in the 16th century to keep the rebellious inhabitants of Ghent in check.