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 ...

Every spring, Liège-Bastogne-Liège rolls around to ask the world’s best cyclists the same pitiless question: how much hurt can you take? La Doyenne is a race of survival, not style. With unpredictable ...

By Alberto Gomez Hernandez, Policy Manager at the World Vapers' Alliance. An Economics graduate of the University Carlos III of Madrid and a Masters graduate in Economics and Finance from the ...

Andrée ‘Nadine’ Dumon, who died earlier this year, was a fearless guide of Belgium’s Comet Line, helping Allied airmen evade Nazi capture in World War II. Arrested in 1942, she endured brutal ...

Orr’s Edmund Burke Foundation has a problematic relationship with the city of Brussels. In 2024, the foundation’s National Conservatism (NatCon) conference, attended by familiar faces from the ...

Belgium has ground to a halt again on Monday due to a general strike. This is the third major multi-sector strike so far this year. Flights, public transport and services are disrupted, as workers ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Belgium has been labelled a "slider" in human rights, the rule of law and press freedom in an annual report surveying the state of European democracies. The sixth edition of the annual Liberties Rule ...