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, ...

The linguistic divide: Unraveling Belgium's struggles of identity and autonomy The events of January 1968 shocked Belgium. In Leuven, French-speaking students and professors, together with their ...

Andrée ‘Nadine’ Dumon, who died earlier this year, was a fearless guide of Belgium’s Comet Line, helping Allied airmen evade Nazi capture in World War II. Arrested in 1942, she endured brutal ...

A very rare side effect among under-31s of the Moderna coronavirus vaccine meant that Belgium stopped using this vaccine last month for the first two vaccine doses of people in this age group. Younger ...

It is fair to say that Laurent Simons is special. Last year, the 12-year-old child prodigy received his bachelor's degree in physics with distinction from the University of Antwerp, after completing ...

Belgian child prodigy Laurent Simons has officially become a doctor in quantum physics at just 15 years old. On Monday, he successfully defended his doctoral thesis at the University of Antwerp, VTM ...

There is a persistent myth that Belgium rose from the seabed in 1830 when the modern kingdom we live in today was established. One would wonder where all those heritage buildings came from. A large ...

Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie and Nina Simone are jazz legends, but in the 1960s, they were unwittingly used as decoys by the United States to deflect attention from its role in its meddling in ...

The Leuven University Library lost around 300,000 books when German soldiers set it on fire in 1914.

Students are showing up in front of the Royal Palace in Brussels. Their cheers are tempered by some protestors and boo’s from the public. One of the most important political prisoners in Nazi-Germany ...

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 ...

English is more suitable than ever as the lingua franca of the European Union, but it must be resolutely dissociated from Shakespeare and from the British flag. Philosopher Philippe Van Parijs ...