Belgium municipalities (cities, towns and villages)

The picturesque coastal Belgian town of Blankenberge is breaking new ground in the fight against the menace of nuisance seagulls by drugging the birds with contraceptive pills. During nesting season, the birds descend on Blankenberge, which is famous for its beach huts, iconic pier and art deco casino, ...

Mieke Thienpont of Ghent stands outside the Belgian city's post office, built to impress visitors to its 1913 World Fair. The medieval city was invaded a ... “As the Canadians fight in the Hundred Days, they liberate something like 225 French and Belgian villages and cities,” Cook says. “They were greeted as ...

Amid growing concerns over its legitimacy as an independent party,the mayor of Mons and former Belgian Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo has joined a ... In 2012, the party gathered 3,317 votes in Molenbeek and Anderlecht, two municipalities in Brussels, and continues to push forward its political mandate.

In a second phase the Antwerp city government wants to start working more on tackling money flows from the drug environment, because according to De Wever, drug gangs are still gaining influence in his city. "Organized crime is in the Netherlands, but they are looking for accomplices here in Antwerp." ...

An analysis of a city's sewer water can reveal a lot of information about its inhabitants – including its drug use. A new report from the EU's ... Cocaine use appears to be highest in southern and western European cities, particularly the Netherlands, Belgium, the UK and Spain. Amsterdam is the ecstasy ...

A Belgian court on Thursday sentenced an Islamic State extremist linked to the British militant nicknamed "Jihadi John" to 30 years in jail in absentia over filmed executions in Syria. Arben Imishti, from the northern port city of Antwerp, left for Syria in 2014 and was identified by Belgian intelligence services in ...

Belgium has decided to expel one diplomatic staff member from the Russian mission in the wake of the nerve agent attack in Britain. The prime minister's office said the ... Despite the measure, Belgium said it remained committed to an "open and frank dialogue" with Moscow. The United States, NATO, ...

FlixBus will thus become the first private company that offers intercity bus rides on a regular basis in Belgium. Given its schedule, it will provide some competition to the NMBS/SNCB, but the low frequency will not make it a serious competitor to the national train system. Between most cities, the company will ...

One of Europe's greatest medieval, Renaissance and baroque cities is celebrating its heritage this year with a series of events and exhibitions focusing on its Old Master painters (visitflanders.com). But it isn't just a city of the past – Belgium's fashion capital is a great place to shop. Connections from the UK ...

(Reuters) – Chelsea goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois has withdrawn from the Belgium squad for Tuesday's friendly against Saudi Arabia due to a hamstring ... League last-16 tie but missed the club's FA Cup win over Leicester City last week, with manager Antonio Conte saying Courtois had a muscle injury.

Key findings in 2017 revealed a picture of distinct geographical and temporal patterns of drug use across European cities. The results indicated that cocaine use is highest in western and southern European cities, in particular in cities in Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain and the United Kingdom. Wastewater ...

Hundreds of activists from Ghent, Antwerp and other Belgian cities have taken part in a silent march against “the genocide of white farmers” in South Africa after a string of murders apparently targeting Boer and Afrikaner minorities. The participants say that the Belgian government should address the ...

2. Call to Order and Roll Call of Officers: The meeting was called to order at 7:00 pm by Village President, Vickie Boehnlein. Officers present were: Village President, Vickie Boehnlein, Trustees, Pete Anzia, Clem Gottsacker, Gail Kowalkowski, and Rose Sauers. Also in attendance were Village Attorney, ...

One of Fujitsu's focus areas for the Blockchain Innovation Center is the development and implementation of Smart City Services that focuses on the cities of the future. The project is already underway with full participation from Brussels and other Belgian cities. Multiple European cities have also expressed ...

Yves de Beauregard, head of Fujitsu Benelux (Belgium Netherlands Luxembourg), noted growing interest to Blockchain technology among customers ... its private Blockchain to Belgian company Digipolis, an organization for inter-municipal ICT services for Belgian cities Ghent and Antwerp, as part of “The ...

For Paul Magnette and his delegation from the city of Charleroi, Belgium, their trip to the United States was more than just an opportunity to learn how Rust Belt cities such as Pittsburgh and Detroit turned their economic fortunes around. Their visit also gave them a chance to reconnect with their sister city in ...

The Queen primarily focusses on the SDGs of quality education, poverty and gender equality. Queen Mathilde was joined by the Belgian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Didier Reynders as she met with the Canadian Deputy Development Minister Jacovella, development actors and people from the civil society.

Retired royal couple Queen Paola and King Albert of Belgium, visited the coastal city of Ostend, known for its long beach and promenade and its historical museums, on Wednesday. The retired King and Queen came to the city for an art exhibition in the mu.ZEE art museum entitled 'Het Vlot', meaning 'The ...

Bars and cafes in the country's most picturesque cities complain that tens of thousands of their stylish glasses are being lost to souvenir hunters every year. ... In Bruges, Philip Maes, the landlord at the Bruges Beerwall cafe, overlooking the city's central Groenerei canal, has invested in security alarms which ...

Beer-making monks in Belgium slam supermarket for selling their rare brew ... A worker carries Westvleteren Trappist beer bottles at the Westvleteren brewery in Belgium. ... In the Belgian village of Westvleteren, Trappists at the Abbey of Saint Sixtus make beer that's considered the best in the world.

Playhouse Square is the nation's largest performing arts complex outside of New York City, and the thrill of going to see a touring Broadway musical in one of its elegant theaters really never gets old. There's something old-timey about it, you know: a night on the town. But it's not just Broadway musicals ...

One of the world's largest diamonds has been sold for $40 million, mining company Gem Diamonds Limited said Tuesday. The company said the 910 carat diamond, which is the fifth-largest gem-quality diamond ever found and bigger than a golf ball, was sold on tender in the Belgian city of Antwerp to an ...

It's a question that doubtless led to fisticuffs and a few black eyes in smoky Legion halls in the aftermath of the First World War: Who was the first to liberate the city of Mons, Belgium? Was it the Royal Canadian Regiment — or the Royal Highlanders (42nd Battalion) of Canada? The city's so-called "golden ...

AMSTERDAM — If you look at a map of Europe and imagine the Netherlands as a man's smiling face gazing out toward the North Sea, the city of ... as the Meuse-Rhine Euregion — which includes parts of the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany; four official languages; five provinces; 10 cities; and 3.9 ...

In 2016, Germany requested Belgium to shut down its two reactors because of defects found in their pressure vessels, but the kingdom refused. In September 2017, citizens of Aachen, a western German city located 70 kilometers (43 miles) away from the Belgian Tihange, started getting free iodine tablets.

The group's members are shadowing Shreveport firefighters and learning techniques to take home to their country and, of course, share a few tips of their own with Shreveport. They say it's also a great opportunity for international camaraderie and brotherhood. "We are welcome here and you feel it.

For Mr Woods, it's a story that must live on. He had also suggested that the international relationship with Geluwe be recognised in the Rocky Hill Museum extension. But the council rejected this, saying it focused on one person's connection with Goulburn and Belgium when others were “just as significant.”.

BRUSSELS — For the first time, a Belgian criminal court has convicted a man of “sexism in the public space,” for verbally abusing a female police officer who ... On June 6, 2016, a police officer on a routine patrol saw the defendant, who was then 23, cross a street against a traffic light in Zaventem, a town ...

Yorkshireman Jack Watson was a company commander with the Paras' 13th (Lancashire) battalion, and among the paratroopers that landed in Normandy and fought on D-Day in June 1944. He and his men were later tasked with liberating the Belgian village of Bure, taken by the Germans during their ...

Police raided seven homes on Sunday in the Brussels district of Molenbeek as well as the Flemish towns of Geraardsbergen and Mechelen, the office of the federal prosecutor ... Belgium: Belgium has detained eight people during raids linked to an anti-terrorism investigation, prosecutors said on Monday.

CHARLEROI – As many as 500 glassblowers from Belgium settled in Charleroi more than a century ago when the town was attempting to compete with ... the municipality of Charleroi – quite fun that the (borough) was named after ours,” Thomas Dermine, head of economic development in the Belgian city, ...

Among them was Briton Charlotte Dixon-Sutcliffe whose partner, David Dixon, was killed in the city's Maelbeek metro attack in 2016. They had been living in ... as home and security." Terror has touched so many of Europe's cities. In Belgium, those affected say they face an ongoing struggle to get support.

His arrival in the suburban town was first reported by the Belgian daily L'Echo, which said he had moved into a six-bedroom, €4,400 a month (£3,900 a month) villa. In a surprisingly candid statement, the mayor of Waterloo, Florence Reuter, said police and neighbours had informed local authorities of his ...