Despite a modest increase in voter turnout to 50.66% in the 2019 European Parliament elections, participation remains below the levels seen in the early years of the EU, with significant disparities ...

On 26 September last year, the Nord Stream 1 and 2 underwater gas pipelines between Russia and Germany were blown up just off the coast of Bornholm, a Danish island in the Baltic Sea. In February this ...

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 ...

Energy consumption by Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rising rapidly: AI is predicted to consume twice as much energy as the whole of France by 2030, according to some calculations. Not only does AI ...

The famous Antwerp skyscraper has largely stood quiet and unchanged for almost a century. As it prepares for its 100th birthday and a new future, The Brussels Times dives into the past to uncover the ...

Historian Herman Van Goethem, rector of Antwerp University and a former director of Kazerne Dossin, the Holocaust and Human Rights Museum in Mechelen, spent 14 years of his life writing a book about ...

A deepfake video showing Belgium's prime minister speaking of an urgent need to tackle the economic and climate crises has been put into circulation by Extinction Rebellion Belgium. Published on ...

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 ...

Mathieu Bihet (MR), often dubbed "Atomic Boy" in the press, has emerged as Belgium's most vocal defender of nuclear energy. In an exclusive interview, he tells The Brussels Times: "This isn't just a ...

Machetes, clubs, pickaxes and spears. These were the weapons used by Rwandans as they slaughtered their fellow countrymen during the 1994 genocide. They were used against colleagues, neighbours, ...

Crelan bank has been hit by a fraud organized from another country. The total losses amounts to 70 million Eur, the bank indicated on Tuesday morning while reassuring that none of their clients have ...

A young Belgian man recently died by suicide after talking to a chatbot named ELIZA for several weeks, spurring calls for better protection of citizens and the need to raise awareness. "Without these ...