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, ...

Opticable S.A., a leading company in the fibre optic cable sector, announced on Friday that it will cease operations. The decision follows a significant deterioration in the company’s financial ...

How to become a freemason in Belgium There are some 25,000 Freemasons in Belgium, of whom one third are women.

The EU biodiesel market, which is valued at about €31 billion annually, has seen a recent surge in imports from China, which almost doubled in 2023. The European Commission has launched an ...

In a city known for fine chocolate and high-stakes politics, another reality unfolds in a church basement, where sardines are gold, Nutella is a luxury, and food bank volunteers often queue for their ...

The coalition of willing countries met at NATO headquarters in Brussels on Thursday afternoon. France and the United Kingdom are leading the coalition’s efforts to increase support for Ukraine while ...

Six people were killed on Thursday when a helicopter crashed into the Hudson River in New York, according to CBS News citing police sources. The accident occurred around 15:15 local time near Jersey ...

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

The health condition of Guy D’haeseleer, far-right mayor of Ninove remains critical. Belgium's first ever far-right mayor has been in hospital for ten days, awaiting a life-saving liver transplant. He ...

Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever (N-VA) stated on Thursday in the Chamber that lessons must be learned from the trade tariff debacle. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has ...