"What makes people love Ixelles?" says its smiling mayor, Christos Doulkeridis. "It's when you know your baker, your grocer and your neighbours. It's when you know the people around you." Running for ...

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 ...

There is no ‘Bosduifstraat’ in Herselt, near Antwerp, despite the sign hanging on a wooden picket fence erected just outside the trailer. The abandoned camping park in this town, where road placards ...

Summer in Belgium is a period of calm. As tools are laid to rest and the country’s six parliaments take annual leave, July and August are a chance to ease off a bit. Less so for Brussels Mayor ...

While some school children dream of being astronauts or rockstars, by the wise old age of six Benoît Cerexhe knew he wanted to be a mayor. "My grandfather was mayor on the other side of Belgium, in ...

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 ...