Belgium News

January 16, 2019

Expert Panel: ‘Jobs lost, jobs gained: workforce transitions in an age of automation’

The British School of Brussels (BSB), in partnership with the British and American Chambers of Commerce, Belgium, is hosting an Expert Panel discussion that will address this topical and important subject, on 12 February. Chaired by Glenn Vaughan, Chief Executive, British Chamber…

January 14, 2019

France to cull wild boar after swine virus cases in Belgium

France will start culling thousands of wild boar near the Belgian border to prevent the African swine fever virus from spreading, the agriculture ministry said Monday. It said the operation would be held in the coming weeks and involve large…

January 12, 2019

Number of ‘yellow vest’ protesters surges but violence down

The number of protesters in the latest “yellow vest” rallies across France surged on Saturday, but there was a marked decline in violence despite hundreds of arrests and clashes with police in Paris and other cities. More than 84,000 people…

January 11, 2019

Frenchman’s DNA, fingerprints on Brussels museum attack weapons: prosecutor

A Frenchman on trial for shooting dead four people at a Jewish museum in Brussels left his fingerprints and DNA on the weapons used in the terror attack, prosecutors said Friday. Mehdi Nemmouche, 33, listened to the case unfolding against…

January 11, 2019

Belgian port Antwerp netted record cocaine haul in 2018

Belgian authorities said Friday they had seized a record haul of more than 50 tonnes of cocaine at the port of Antwerp in 2018. Antwerp, Europe’s second busiest cargo port after Rotterdam, has boomed in importance to the drug trade…

January 10, 2019

Jewish museum terror attack trial opens in Brussels

A Frenchman accused of shooting four people dead at a Jewish museum in Brussels went on trial on Thursday, allegedly the first Syria jihad veteran to stage a terror attack in Europe. Mehdi Nemmouche, 33, who was in court, faces…

January 10, 2019

Blistering barnacles! Tintin rides again… aged 90

Jumping jellyfish! Tintin may be 90 years old Thursday, but the boy hero is about to get himself into a whole new snake pit of scrapes. Casterman, which publishes his comic book adventures, said a new film featuring the cub…

January 10, 2019

Brussels Jewish museum terror attack trial opens

The trial opened Thursday of a Frenchman accused of shooting four people dead at a Jewish museum in Brussels, allegedly the first Syria jihad veteran to stage a terror attack in Europe. Mehdi Nemmouche, 33, who was in court, faces…

January 10, 2019

Radicalised in jail, teen thug becomes hardened jihadist

Mehdi Nemmouche stands accused of carrying out Europe’s first attack by an Islamist fighter returning from the war in Syria. But his journey from a French foster home to a Brussels court began not in a Middle Eastern desert but…