Foreign direct investment (FDI) in Europe slumped to a nine-year low in 2024. While the investment picture in Belgium is still far from ideal, it remains among the continent’s top ten investment ...

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 ...

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 ...

Manneken-Pis, literally “little man pee,” in the Dutch dialect of Marols or “le petit Julien,” in French, is one of Brussels’ most famous and beloved citizens. But what’s the story behind this iconic, ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

On October 25, 1555, the grandees of the Habsburg Netherlands gathered in the Great Hall of the Coudenberg Palace in Brussels to witness an extraordinary event. A weary old man with a grey beard and a ...

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 ...

Nine years ago today, on 22 March 2016, Brussels experienced its deadliest terrorist attacks in history. Early in the morning on 22 March 2016, suicide bombers detonated explosives at Brussels Airport ...

The final touches are being made to the world-famous flower carpet on the Grand Place, Brussels' main square. Over 100 volunteers started working early on Thursday to decorate the cobblestones with ...

Mathieu Bihet (MR), often dubbed "Atomic Boy" in the press, has emerged as Belgium's most vocal defender of nuclear energy. In an exclusive interview, he tells The Brussels Times: "This isn't just a ...