On October 25, 1555, the grandees of the Habsburg Netherlands gathered in the Great Hall of the Coudenberg Palace in Brussels to witness an extraordinary event. A weary old man with a grey beard and a ...

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 ...

From his home in the rural Flemish municipality of Oudsbergen, Raymond Behr shows his collection of medals. At just 17 years old, Behr was one of the 3,172 soldiers sent by Belgium to help defend ...

Manneken-Pis, literally “little man pee,” in the Dutch dialect of Marols or “le petit Julien,” in French, is one of Brussels’ most famous and beloved citizens. But what’s the story behind this iconic, ...

How successful are European countries at unifying their populations linguistically? What part does the spread of English in Eastern Europe play in NATO’s hybrid war against Russia. These and many ...

Police in Brussels-West lifted the security perimeter on Avenue Carl Requette in Molenbeek late Wednesday morning after discovering that an earlier emergency call was a hoax. Officers had intervened ...

A German MEP and vocal critic of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has accused Hungary of paying over €1 million to spy on him. Daniel Freund from the European Greens is a leading anti-corruption ...

France’s centre-right Les Républicains (LR) party has suspended ministers who joined or remained in Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu’s government following the departure of former Interior Minister ...

Thousands are set to take to the streets in Brussels today as part of a national strike against several reforms by Belgium's Federal Government. The day of action was called by trade unions ACV-CSC, ...

British police stopped a man at Manchester Airport on 13 September 2021 under suspicion of counterterrorism offences: taking Russian bribes while being an elected official. The individual was arrested ...

The disruptions at Brussels Airport caused by a cyberattack will continue throughout Monday and Tuesday, a spokesperson for the airport has confirmed. Of the 276 departures that were scheduled, 40 ...

Farmers from Belgium and neighbouring countries gathered in Brussels on Thursday evening to protest against a trade deal with Mercosur, proposed by the European Commission just a day earlier. Around ...