The Bulletin

Cowboy e-bike firm seeks new investors

Brussels-based e-bike manufacturer Cowboy is looking for new investors ahead of its next round of financing, anticipated by the end of the year.…

Call for caution over antibiotics overuse in Belgium

Belgium must stop doling out so many prescriptions for antibiotics, the country’s health insurance body Inami has warned.It says that by 2025, t…

Audi Brussels factory under threat of closure

Audi Brussels is at risk of closure following an announcement from management of "intentions to restructure".The Brussels plant employs some 3,0…

Contest seeks ideas for how to make Brussels cleaner

Brussels’ public hygiene authority, Bruxelles Propreté, is calling on residents to provide ideas for how to improve cleanliness in the Belgian c…

More tiger mosquito sightings reported in Belgium

Sightings of tiger mosquitoes in Belgium have been on the rise, with three locations reported and confirmed in May and June of this year, accord…

Reports of concert ticket fraud double in just one year

Reports of concert ticket fraud have doubled in the course of just a year, helped along by the multiplying number of online scams on social netw…

Brussels cries out for more MRI machines

Belgium’s federal health ministry has announced that the country will soon receive 20 new MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) scanners – but none a…

Haren's new mega-prison: too far from Brussels' courts and understaffed

Haren prison – a project that was controversial from the outset – is continuing to cause problems, prison bosses and lawyers have said.The main…

Brussels parking wardens will no longer give tickets to foreign-registered cars

With the exception of France and the Netherlands, foreign-registered cars in Brussels will no longer be personally ticketed in the majority of B…

Former residents of ghost town Doel can buy back their homes

Some former residents of the ghost town Doel will be able to buy back their property, according to an announcement from the Flemish government.T…

Cassis clothing chain to close nine stores, 67 jobs at risk

Nine shops in the Cassis-Paprika group are closing their doors for good, trade union CGSLB reported in a statement, resulting in 67 people – mos…

Brussels Pride attracts 200,000 participants

An estimated 200,000 people took part in Brussels Pride celebrations this weekend under the theme of ‘Safe Everyday Everywhere’.A Pride Village…

Palestinian migrants choose Belgium despite having protection elsewhere

More Palestinians that have been given refugee status in another European Union member state are coming to Belgium, the Office of the Commission…

Ixelles and Uccle call to rename street honouring controversial historical figure

In the continuing aim to question the past, and the reputation of once honoured figures in Belgium, notably for their role in the Congo, the com…

Access to gambling easier in poor municipalities, study finds

The poorer a municipality is in Brussels, the greater the range of gambling machines and services on offer, according to an analysis of the lice…

Belgium’s oldest war veteran dies at 107

Albert Van Raemdonck, Belgium’s oldest man and war veteran, has died at a residential home in Sint-Niklaas, East Flanders.Born on 6 July 1916, h…

Proximus to sell off part of its art collection

Telecommunications company Proximus is selling off some of the works in its extensive art collection, which includes 600 pieces.Some 70 of those…

Teachers plan big strike for Tuesday 23 April

French-speaking education unions will be out in force next Tuesday in Brussels, with a one-day strike affecting classes.Unions are calling for “…