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 ...

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 ...

The Strépy-Thieu boat lift is the heavyweight champion of waterway engineering: a mechanical colossus that hoists ships skyward like a magician pulling a rabbit from a hat. But it’s just one act in a ...

Nuclear energy remains the main source of domestic electricity in Belgium. The electricity production from it is "linear", meaning that power plants operate most of the time at 100% of their capacity, ...

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 ...

Skeletons, black death and migration: the discovery of thousands of skeletons in the main square of Belgium’s Sint Truiden ignited the largest DNA study in the world for one single cemetery – ...

Historian Herman Van Goethem, rector of Antwerp University and a former director of Kazerne Dossin, the Holocaust and Human Rights Museum in Mechelen, spent 14 years of his life writing a book about ...

By 1930, the Belgian authorities introduced ethnicity on Rwandan identity papers. The concepts of Hutu and Tutsi, initially social categories, would become ‘races’, and Rwandan society would slowly ...

A deepfake video showing Belgium's prime minister speaking of an urgent need to tackle the economic and climate crises has been put into circulation by Extinction Rebellion Belgium. Published on ...

Woody Allen is synonymous with New York, Federico Fellini loved Rome while Jean-Luc Godard is indelibly linked with Paris. For Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, two-time winners of the Palme d’Or and ...

The events of January 1968 shocked Belgium. In Leuven, French-speaking students and professors, together with their entire faculties, were told to leave the University, which was located in the ...