Belgium

Lukas Dhont’s Close is an ecstatic, tear-jerking tale of adolescent friendship

In east Belgium, a committed group of democrats are experimenting with sortition – government chosen by lottery

Meet the pro-EU footballer who spends his free time helping migrants

Moroccans were blamed for riots in Brussels after their World Cup upset of Belgium. But what really happened?

Jeanne Dielman, directed by Chantal Akerman in 1975, beats Citizen Kane to be voted the best movie ever in Sight and Sound magazine poll

After 11 years, Antwerp’s Royal Museum of Fine Arts has reopened with a nod to its glorious past but eyes firmly on the future

Ivo van Hove, the Bowie collaborator with a taste for the spectacular, returns with a timely, bloody war epic at the Barbican

It was submerged in 1922 as part of a plan to build a new reservoir. Now, after a historic drought, it returns

The blue-and-yellow business complex will gradually come down over the next two years. The Mayor of Kahramanmaraş hopes this means the city's reputation will then go up.

Intelligent, genuine and in control, Brussels has sprouted the future of European pop as we approach 2022.

News that you might have missed from around the continent, selected by Steve Anglesey.

News that you might have missed from around the continent, selected by Steve Anglesey.

The hunt for renegade soldier Jürgen Conings may have ended, but the country’s quest for answers goes on On Sunday a small-town Belgian mayor, out on a bike ride near the Dutch border, and a local hunter, did what hundreds of soldiers and police had been unable to achieve for more than a month. They found Jürgen Conings, the […]

The Flemish government has spent €1 on buying a 500-year-old castle that had become derelict because of a feud between the brothers who owned it

Boris Johnson has arrived for last-ditch talks in Brussels with the European Commission’s top official aimed at breaking the deadlock in trade deal negotiations. The prime minister and Ursula von der Leyen will have dinner with their chief negotiators Michel Barnier and Lord Frost as they race against the clock to secure an agreement. Johnson […]

The Belgian prime minister had reminded Boris Johnson that the UK’s Covid-19 vaccine was actually “Made in Europe”. Alexander De Croo trolled Johnson after he tweeted his thanks “to our NHS, to all of the scientists who worked so hard to develop this vaccine, to all the volunteers” as the UK began its roll-out of […]

The Belgian town of Doel should have been wiped off the map more than a decade ago. The threat of destruction still hangs over it, but for now street art is sustaining it. Photographer Bradley Wood went along to capture the town before it vanishes for good I first heard about the town of Doel […]