The statue of the “pissing boy,” as he is commonly called, has led a long and not always easy life, surviving the bombardment of Brussels in 1695 and various wear and tear over the centuries.

Imagine a modern European home in 2050. Solar panels on every roof for local energy generation, state-of-the-art insulation maintaining electric heating or air conditioning for days at a time and ...

From this, we gauge new insights into how migration, urban development, family structures, and epidemics shaped the genetic landscape of this medieval city and of the broader Low Countries. Gallic or ...

Freedom of expression and the protection of journalists are among the fundamental principles in the EU but when they are ...

Rwanda had been a German colony since 1885, but the Belgians drove them out in 1916 during the First World War, and in 1924, the League of Nations officially gave Belgium a mandate over Ruanda-Urundi ...

Befimmo is Belgium’s largest non-listed office real estate company and owns approximately 850,000 square meters of office space across the country. In 2006, the Belgian government sold 62 buildings to ...

The Exposition Internationale de 1930 de Liège, commemorating a century of Belgian independence, had only recently transformed the landscape with promenades, pavilions and modernist façades. Before ...

This involved much gentrification of the main route through the town, trees being planted, wildlife access improved, and state-of-the-art tram stops (easy access for the disabled and mothers with baby ...

Between 1945 and 1978, Belgian socialists acted under one banner, peaking in 1954 with 37.34% of the national vote. But disagreements inside the party began to emerge, particularly on language and ...

This week, Liverpool FC are back in Brussels for only the second time since the deadly Heysel Stadium Disaster on 29 May 1985 – where 39 football fans were killed because of fan trouble caused by ...

On a scale of a Mesopotamian ziggurat, it has to be seen to be believed. The gargantuan complex looms from a hill over the old city and is thought to have inspired Adolf Hitler’s madcap Germania plans ...

While the station has been the subject of unqualified headlines calling it ‘the most dangerous station in Europe’, the Midi Quarter is in urgent need of revitalisation, finding itself landlocked on ...