Belgium

Belgian campsite closed after dozens fall ill

A campsite in Belgium has had to be evacuated after 75 people showed symptoms of food poisoning. Some of them, including children, were taken to

16/05/2016

Belgium

Armed forces deployed to Belgian prisons as strike enters third week

Belgium has mobilised the military to assist in prisons where guards have been on strike for over two weeks. Police and the Red Cross had been

10/05/2016

Belgium

Trial of alleged extremist cell opens in Belgium

Seven stand trial on charges including attempted murder and organising or belonging to a terrorist cell in Verviers.

09/05/2016

Belgium

Brussels airport departure hall reopens after terror attacks

Brussels Airport departure hall partially reopened to passengers on Sunday, less than six weeks after ISIL suicide bombers struck there. “Brussels is

01/05/2016

European Union

Europe Weekly: Abdeslam extradited to France

In this edition of Europe Weekly: Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam is extradited from Belgium to France; the Maelbeek metro station reopens; the

29/04/2016

Belgium

Belgium gives everyone radiation protection pills

Belgium is to supply iodine pills to all its 11 million inhabitants to help protect against radioactivity in the event of a nuclear accident. Iodine

29/04/2016

France

Paris attacks suspect Abdelslam at high-security Paris prison

Key suspect in the Paris Attacks, Salah Abdelslam, has spent his first night at Europe’s biggest prison. He will be kept in solitary confinement at

28/04/2016

Belgium

Belgian monarch visits Maelbeek

King Philippe of the Belgians travels on the metro one month after the Brussels attacks

28/04/2016

Belgium

Salah Abdeslam 'as bright as an empty ashtray', says his lawyer

“He has the intelligence of an empty ashtray, he is abysmally vacuous.” That was the stinging character assassination of Salah Abdeslam, the man

27/04/2016

Belgium

Belgium extradites Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam to France

Belgian authorities have extradited the Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam to France.

27/04/2016

Sport

Cycling: Belgian teenager gets six-year ban for mechanical doping

The International cycling announced on Tuesday its Disciplinary Commission has banned Belgian youngster Femke Van den Driessche for six years for

26/04/2016

Culture news

New museum opens in Brussels' Molenbeek district

A new museum has opened in the Molenbeek district of Brussels, which, it’s hoped, will help shed the negative image of the area most recently linked

26/04/2016

Europe News

Bombed Brussels metro station reopens one month after terror attacks

The metro station in Brussels targeted by suicide bombers last month has finally reopened. A bomb was detonated at the Maelbeek metro station just

25/04/2016

Belgium

Brussels airport won't re-open fully before summer holidays

One month on from the terrorist attacks in Brussels, reconstruction work on the airport continues. Authorities say they aim to have it back to

23/04/2016

Belgium

Belgium's transport minister quits amid accusations over Brussels Airport security

Jacqueline Galant quit amid claims she neglected EU reports that highlight safety failings at the site, which was the target of ISIL-inspired suicide bombers on March 22.

15/04/2016

Belgium

High security in Brussels as terror suspects appear in court

Judges have ordered that the seven men continue to be detained while investigators gather evidence

14/04/2016

World News

Terror suspects in court in Brussels amid Abdeslam nuclear claims

Security is extra tight in Brussels on Thursday with several suspects appearing in front of a judge, as investigations progress into the deadly

14/04/2016

Belgium

Belgian PM slams Brussels airport disruption as "irresponsible"

Stranded passengers have voiced anger over protest action by air traffic controllers

13/04/2016

Belgium

Belgian police make progress in terror investigations

Police in Brussels have arrested three more suspects linked to November’s Paris attacks. They were picked up following a house search in the

13/04/2016

Belgium

Paris-Brussels attacks: New developments in terror probes

Police investigating the Paris terror attacks in November are questioning three people…in Brussels. It follows a house search there, in the southern

12/04/2016