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 ...

With 20 shootings this summer (and 57 since the start of 2025), Brussels is on the verge of a record year for gun violence. As most of them are linked to the drug environment, Brussels Public ...

Belgian powerlifter Sonita Muluh has fallen victim to sabotage by a Lithuanian staff member during the World Championships Powerlifting in June. While Muluh initially defended the staff member, ...

On a cold November day in 1905, European royalty gathered in Brussels to attend the funeral of Prince Philippe of Belgium. Also known as the Count of Flanders, Philippe spent most of his life ...

Union Saint-Gilloise striker Mohammed Fuseini was robbed on Sunday while sitting in a parked car in Brussels. Five hooded men dragged the Ghanaian player out of his car and took his phone and watch.

The Cosa Nostra is seeking to expand and modernise its arsenal with military-grade weapons, including drones and grenade launchers used in the war in Ukraine and then trafficked through the ...

One in three large Belgian companies expects to cut jobs in the next six months, according to a survey by HR services provider SD Worx, which included responses from 250 firms employing at least 250 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

From dodgy defence contracts to toxic food contamination, the shadow of corruption has fallen on Belgian politics and society time and again. Historic scandals have left their mark on Belgian politics ...