The short shopping stretch from the Porte de Namur to Place Louise, known as the Toison d’Or, is essentially two distinct sections bisected by a busy highway and tunnels. The city has new plans to ...

The European Commission has given a positive assessment of Poland’s fourth request for €7.2 billion from the EU’s post-pandemic Recovery and Resilience Facility. Poland has satisfactorily completed 30 ...

With five serious incidents in five days, drug-related violence has returned to the Brussels municipality of Saint-Gilles after a week of score-settling between rival drug gangs, leaving residents ...

A return train ticket from New York to the MetLife Stadium in New Jersey will cost $150 (€127) during this summer’s football World Cup, the local organising committee announced on Friday. The ...

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 ...

Machetes, clubs, pickaxes and spears. These were the weapons used by Rwandans as they slaughtered their fellow countrymen during the 1994 genocide. They were used against colleagues, neighbours, ...

All of Brussels can be seen as an open-air museum with streets, squares and parks adorned by historical statues and memorials, mostly meant to represent and even glorify Belgium’s past. But for a long ...

In most countries, football league winners get to lift the trophy when the season concludes in May. However, in Belgium, topping the table is only half the job – enter the crazy Champions' Play-offs.

It is fair to say that Laurent Simons is special. Last year, the 12-year-old child prodigy received his bachelor's degree in physics with distinction from the University of Antwerp, after completing ...

Belgium's new Federal 'Arizona' Government was sworn in on Monday morning before King Philippe, giving the country a fully-fledged administration after nearly eight months. The casting of the new ...

Belgium's prison system is mired in crisis, with overcrowding and understaffing affecting every one of the country's institutions. A journey through the history of Saint-Gilles prison suggests that ...

Major US technology companies have tapped into the European far-right to help pressure the European Commission into stripping back regulations for its sector, according to a new report released on ...