The Workers' Party of Belgium, PVDA-PTB, does not have a mayor in any of the 19 communes in the Brussels region, but that could change soon. The regional elections on 9 June showed that the radical ...
Even for someone with a certain knack for promptly sourcing pithy and politically-saleable answers to constituents’ queries, my mind drew a blank. Surely she knew that the commune doesn’t control the ...
It’s a good thing I’m early for my interview with Boris Dilliès, the bourgmestre of Uccle, because I’ve come to the wrong place. I’m standing in front of what turns out to be the former town hall on ...
One person has been hospitalised Sunday morning after a fire, “possibly of criminal origin,” broke out in a house in Ixelles, Brussels, police reports. Police were alerted to an explosion at Rue Marie ...
Cyclists now make up around half of those seriously injured following a traffic accident, a significant rise compared to 2016. Overall, these casualties have fallen, but not by enough to meet ...
The City of Brussels’ graduation ceremonies commenced on Sunday morning at the Grand-Place with students from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). Approximately 5,000 graduates will celebrate the end ...
Olivier Maingain was once a fixture in Belgian politics, regularly railing about the alleged abuse of francophones in the Brussels region. A national MP from 1991 until 2019, during which time he ...
The metro network in Brussels is the second-wost in Europe, with an "underground index score" of just 3.20 out of 10, according to a study by travel-related platform Bounce. Only Budapest in Hungary ...