The uniforms have been criticised over their non-compliance with Belgian language laws and for colours that are "too Flemish" ...

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, ...

How successful are European countries at unifying their populations linguistically? What part does the spread of English in Eastern Europe play in NATO’s hybrid war against Russia. These and many ...

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 ...

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 ...

Services are set to be disrupted next week as Belgium is hit with three consecutive days of strike action across multiple sectors. The strikes, planned for 24, 25 and 26 November, were announced at ...

Contemporary Belgian politics often seems too complex for its good, but the political landscape in the Middle Ages and the early modern period could have been even more bizarre. Belgium was once a ...

From his home in the rural Flemish municipality of Oudsbergen, Raymond Behr shows his collection of medals. At just 17 years old, Behr was one of the 3,172 soldiers sent by Belgium to help defend ...

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 ...

When Charlotte Brontë left Brussels in 1844 after her two-year stay at the Pensionnat Heger, the future author of Jane Eyre returned to her Yorkshire village of Haworth with her head crammed with ...

A project to connect hospital patients and pets in Brussels is set to expand its reach with the launch of a mobile pilot project. Around 10 years ago, Brussels hospital UZ Brussel and pet care company ...

This is why the debate about limiting veto powers in the EU has re-emerged with force. It is hardly new. Every previous wave ...