Europe’s cocaine trade is booming and the drug’s gateway of choice is now the port of Antwerp. As the market has grown, so too have the drug gangs who find ever more ingenious ways to smuggle it in, ...

Time is running out for the World Health Organization's Pandemic Agreement. After more than three years of complex, arduous negotiations, we stand on the edge of failure—an outcome that will not ...

Protesting Leuven students calling for “Leuven Vlaams” (A Flemish Leuven) being clubbed by Belgian gendarmerie, the paramilitary federal force, on 18 January 1968 at the height of the turmoils.

In recent years, relations between Uzbekistan and the European Union have risen to a qualitatively new level and become comprehensive in nature. Uzbekistan views the EU as a key international partner ...

2024 has been unusually frenetic. Here are the highlights through the lens of The Brussels Times.

As an engine of the Belgian economy at the forefront of global trade, the Port of Antwerp – which now includes Bruges – could become even more important as it anchors itself in green and digital ...

The Strépy-Thieu boat lift is the heavyweight champion of waterway engineering: a mechanical colossus that hoists ships skyward like a magician pulling a rabbit from a hat. But it’s just one act in a ...

On a wing and a prayer: The Belgian wartime hero who broke the Nazi defence Baron Jean de Selys Longchamps pulled off one of the most audacious, unauthorised flying feats of World War II to earn his ...

"For young people, it's clearly a race for the best salary. This trend indicates a shift from past years where factors such as work-life balance, mobility, and training opportunities held more ...

Construction works in Brussels feel endless – but much of it is part of a long-term vision to develop a "mixed and compact" city, says the director of Perspective Brussels, the regional centre of ...