Belgium received 39,615 asylum applications in 2024, 11.6% more than in 2023, while the country's reception capacity is just over 36,200 places and was nearly full for the entire year.

Police are chasing two suspects who fled into Brussels’ metro tunnels following a shooting in the Belgian capital, according to officials. Authorities were first called to Clemenceau train ...

Belgium has a new Prime Minister whose political purpose was long to break up the nation, gut the state structures and give ever more autonomy to his northern Flanders at the cost of everyone else ...

An IMF team led by Jean-François Dauphin visited Brussels to conduct the 2025 Article IV consultation with Belgium. The mission’s discussions (January 22-February 3) took place before the formation of ...

On Feb. 8, multiple outlets reported that Belgium would provide Ukraine with €1.7 billion ($1.8 billion) from the taxes generated from frozen Russian assets held by Euroclear. The problem is the money ...

Start your Independent Premium subscription today. Police in Belgium are hunting armed men after a shooting outside a metro station in the centre of Brussels on Wednesday morning. The incident ...

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Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever (left ... made by members of the N-VA ("Financial transfers keep too many Walloons in their hammocks," said Jan Jambon, the new minister of finance and ...

It's a translation of I Who Have Never Known Men, a 1995 novel by Belgian author Jacqueline Harpman. Originally written in French, the dystopian novel is under 200 pages long. It went from ...

The delay was largely due to Belgium, where the parliament of French-speaking Wallonia has voted against ratifying the deal. Belgian Foreign Minister Didier Reynders says that “divisions remain” over ...