Brussels spent €7.8 billion in 2024, against revenues of just €6.3 billion. At the current spending rate, the debt is projected to reach €16 billion by the end of 2025, with a debt-to-revenue ratio of ...

Forget wine – Belgian beer is the real champion of cheese pairings. With a dazzling array of styles, lively carbonation, and complex flavours, these brews elevate cheese boards like never before. From ...

By Alberto Gomez Hernandez, Policy Manager at the World Vapers' Alliance. An Economics graduate of the University Carlos III of Madrid and a Masters graduate in Economics and Finance from the ...

The Brussels Times offers a complete guide on accessing mental health facilities in the capital, even without speaking French or Dutch.

Electric cars are involved in 50% more traffic accidents than their petrol and diesel counterparts, according to a study by insurer Axa. The high number of accidents has actually nothing to do with ...

Every spring, Liège-Bastogne-Liège rolls around to ask the world’s best cyclists the same pitiless question: how much hurt can you take? La Doyenne is a race of survival, not style. With unpredictable ...

Smartphone users touch, tap, or swipe their devices an average of 2,617 times a day, according to research by an American company also confirmed by recent Flemish studies. American research company ...

The Leuven University Library lost around 300,000 books when German soldiers set it on fire in 1914.

Belgium has ground to a halt again on Monday due to a general strike. This is the third major multi-sector strike so far this year. Flights, public transport and services are disrupted, as workers ...

Energy consumption by Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rising rapidly: AI is predicted to consume twice as much energy as the whole of France by 2030, according to some calculations. Not only does AI ...

Orr’s Edmund Burke Foundation has a problematic relationship with the city of Brussels. In 2024, the foundation’s National Conservatism (NatCon) conference, attended by familiar faces from the ...