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27/01 - The boss of the Port of Antwerp Eddy Bruyninckx and the Flemish Prime Minister Kris Peeters (Christian democrat)...

The trades unions have called a national strike against the federal government’s savings plans for Monday 30 January. Fl...

The second Ghent Festival of Light got under way on Thursday. Until Sunday, monuments the East Flemish capital will be t...

Members of Flemish employers’ federation Voka have held demonstrations outside the headquarters of the socialist, Christ...

The inflation rate has exceeded the so-called “pivotal index rate” which means that benefits and public sector wages wil...

The Federal Prosecutor Johan Demulle has said that the federal judicial authorities have too few specialist detectives t...

The judicial authorities in the Limburg city of Hasselt have launched a fresh investigation into the disaster at last Au...

The RateBeer Awards are given annually as part of the World’s biggest beer survey. A total of 140,000 beers from 12,000 ...

Standard de Liège moves up to 4th place in the table after a 2-1 win at home against RAEC Mons.

Public support for the strike planned for Monday 30 January has visibly dropped and trade unions are not only b...

Dutch politicians increasingly view the delays in Dutch-Belgian dossiers such as the high-speed train between B...

In a matter of ten years the Flemish trade balance has evolved from a surplus of 9.6 billion in 2002 to a defic...

'Gone West', the commemoration of World War I between 2014 and 2018, promises to be an impressive event. The pr...

Flemish socialist leader Bruno Tobback has attacked the general strike called by Belgium's three main unions for Monday....

In university city Ghent the Christian trade union ACV is offering students 'a bed for the night' or at least a place wh...