Fit for royalty – a standard room is €700 and penthouses up to €21,000 per night – the Corinthia is aptly located on Rue Royale. “The hotel chain aims to attract a new kind of clientele to Brussels, ...

After a name change (previously known as the Humanist Democratic Center Party—cdH) and a two-year process of reinventing itself, the party dropped its explicitly religious ties and positioned itself ...

"Usually we use begonias but this year we went for dahlias," Houba said. "This is a very strong flower that exists in many different colours, which is easier to use for the design of the flower carpet ...

I turned to someone who has made a career of demystifying the city after being struck by the assertion that "Nothing compares to the metropolitan anarchy that Brussels radiates." The statement was ...

From this, we gauge new insights into how migration, urban development, family structures, and epidemics shaped the genetic landscape of this medieval city and of the broader Low Countries. Gallic or ...

Rwanda had been a German colony since 1885, but the Belgians drove them out in 1916 during the First World War, and in 1924, the League of Nations officially gave Belgium a mandate over Ruanda-Urundi ...

Using these data, the website can tell us, for example, which countries are most successful at national unification through the linguistic integration of both newcomers and regional minorities. Of the ...

"The Bourse has always been a very closed building which people couldn’t enter easily, despite the fact that it is located in the midst of these very central avenues in Brussels, where a lot of people ...

As we walked to the scene of the recent shootings, Deweer-Vanmeerhaeghe pointed to the litter and furniture strewn across the pavements. "This has also worsened. Almost every week, entire living room ...

“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 ...

What's worse is that they are not treated equally: LRTs do not benefit from job security, fair salary structures, or proper career progression – leaving them vulnerable to sudden job losses, contract ...

Mahmoud*, Salma* and their two young children arrived in Belgium in 2021, travelling from Gaza through Egypt, Greece and Italy in search of a safer life. When their third child Khaled* was born in ...