Gault et Millau named Arthur Amblard its Brussels Chocolatier of the Year, recognising a 28 year old who builds his pralines around his father's diabetes diagnosis, as part of a guide honouring 145 chocolatiers across Belgium and Luxembourg.
Euroclear, the Brussels based clearing house, sits on roughly 185 billion euros in immobilised Russian assets, and Prime Minister Bart De Wever says seizing that money for a reparations loan risks killing the arrangement that already funnels billions to Kyiv.
European luxury has long been guarded by a handful of heritage names — which makes the rise of Dorota Goldpoint, a Polish designer building her house from outside that establishment, worth watching.&…
The European Commission has designated the three services under the Digital Services Act after each passed 45 million monthly EU users, giving them until the end of the year to start policing systemic risks or face fines of up to 6 percent of global revenue.
The King Baudouin Stadium is staging the 50th Memorial Van Damme as the Diamond League Final, with Mondo Duplantis and Britain's Amy Hunt among the names chasing trophies and a route into a $10 million championship in Budapest.
The Commission is holding the line on its interest free loan even as Sweden, the Netherlands, Spain and Poland push to revive a plan built on frozen Russian assets that Belgium has blocked once already.
With an October deadline approaching, the Commission's top trade enforcer is in China pushing Beijing to rein in a surge of exports that is now outpacing nearly every EU member state's trade with the country.
A robotics showcase in Brussels put walking, waving machines in front of lawmakers as Europe weighs automation as one answer to its shrinking, ageing workforce.
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Jean Spinette says he wants the same judicial police resources given to Antwerp, after a run of shootings tied to drug gang rivalries left Brussels South police warning that an innocent bystander will eventually be hit.
The European Commission is strengthening ACER just as Germany and its grid operators resist giving the agency more say over Europe's electricity network, setting up a fight that will run into 2027.
The European Commission is fast tracking emergency funding for Spain's Ceuta enclave after a surge in arrivals, even as Spain's defence minister issues a sharp warning to Rabat over renewed sovereignty claims.
European Sleeper is teaming up with German operator RDC on an overnight service due in 2028, giving Brussels and Amsterdam a direct rail link to Scandinavia for the first time in years.
The European Commission approved the funding on Ukraine's Independence Day, drawing on the bloc's 90 billion euro support loan to cover air defence systems, missiles, ammunition and radars.
An electric tug is now hauling loaded cargo trailers between warehouses and aircraft under its own guidance, with a trained operator still on board, in the airport's first trial of autonomous ground handling.
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The blaze burning through the High Fens has now surpassed Belgium's previous worst wildfire from 2011, forcing hundreds of residents from two border towns to leave as smoke shifts with the wind.
A blaze that has already burned around 1,600 hectares near the German border has forced Belgium to ask European partners for reinforcements, with aircraft, helicopters and foreign firefighters now joining the fight.
A summer job turned into the find of a lifetime for one 18 year old construction worker in Dendermonde, after a crew renovating a charity owned property drilled into a cellar wall packed with gold bars and coins.
Business
A new European Central Bank survey shows Belgian shops and restaurants are turning away cash faster than almost anywhere else in the eurozone, even as most small businesses say they intend to keep taking it.
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Lifestyle
Long before a fashion name becomes internationally familiar, someone has to recognize its potential. For Noura Elmassaoudi, discovering distinctive designers and introducing emerging brands has been…
A long awaited redesign of the roundabout at the heart of Brussels' EU quarter has drawn sharp criticism after its signature shaded canopy was never built.
New Eurostat figures show Poland has pushed past Belgium, Sweden, Ireland, and Austria in nominal GDP, driven by growth running well above the EU average.
Business
Entrepreneur Irina Biss has built Leadership Access Group into an international platform connecting leaders, investors and innovators around the practice of reinvention.
The Belgian maker of Biscoff and speculoos products plans to spend at least 500 million euros by 2030 across sites in Belgium, the United States, and Thailand, as demand for the brand keeps climbing.
Trade between Canada and Belgium has grown by more than 80 percent since 2016, and officials on both sides are pushing to widen cooperation across ports, critical minerals, energy, and life sciences.
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