Mechelen offers a crowd-free city break alternative to Bruges or Amsterdam. Lente De Vil, from Visit Mechelen, says that the ...

People smugglers who tried to transport ten migrants from Belgium to Purfleet in the back of a lorry have been convicted following a ...

A man from Aylesbury has been convicted for his role in a dangerous, international people smuggling scheme involving a lorry.

Romantic canals, medieval buildings and opulent squares: this is the social media image of Bruges. But does the city live up ...

a popular Flemish nationalist party that calls for the secession of the Flemish region from Belgium. De Wever will succeed Prime Minister Alexander De Croo, whose seven-party coalition took 493 ...

The agreement struck on Friday makes De Wever the first nationalist from the Dutch-speaking Flanders region to lead the country. He and his Flemish nationalist ... state to Belgium's various ...

Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever (left) and King Philippe of Belgium after the swearing-in ceremony at the Royal Palace in Brussels, February 3, 2025. JASPER JACOBS / AFP No sooner had he been ...

BRUSSELS — Belgium has a new prime minister whose political ... but disdain for because it symbolized the old concept of Belgian unity. “I swear allegiance to the king,” he said.

Conservative Bart De Wever was sworn in Monday as Belgium's new prime minister ... nationalist from Dutch-speaking Flanders to be named Belgian premier. A law-and-order candidate whose coalition ...

Conservative Bart De Wever was sworn in Monday as Belgium's new prime minister after seven months ... the agreement makes De Wever the first nationalist from Dutch-speaking Flanders to be named ...