Belgian elections guide: What Belgium's parties stand for Seven political parties are in the current Belgian government coalition, while more will compete in the June 9 elections. The Brussels Times ...

Brussels, May 2025. This story begins with a routine visit to the doctor, which revealed that I had a hernia. When I expressed surprise and confusion, the doc described a hernia as being the result of ...

A 20-year-old man suspected of firing an AK-47 assault rifle in a Brussels metro station is being tried in absentia after breaking his ankle tag and going on the run. 'YA' stands accused of firing the ...

EU leaders António Costa and Ursula von der Leyen will meet South Korean President Lee Jae Myung in Brussels on 10 June for the 11th EU – Republic of Korea summit. Costa, President of the European ...

Belgian prosecutors described serial killer Freddy Horion as a "ticking time bomb" who poses a "very high risk of reoffending" in advice submitted to the Ghent Sentence Enforcement Court before his ...

Air traffic resumed in Brussels at 07:00 on Tuesday after being suspended for part of the night due to a spontaneous strike by air traffic controllers, Skeyes, the public company responsible for air ...

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 ...

On a grey Belgian spring day, people in dark suits hurry up and down Antwerp’s Hoveniersstraat carrying black leather briefcases. Some pause to talk with one another for a moment, but in the city’s ...

Feared and reviled down the centuries, freemasons are still treated with suspicion. Seven starving Belgian political prisoners sat around a table in barrack Number 6, a wooden hut in the Nazi ...

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 ...