Belgium became the first eurozone country formally to fall into recession in the second half of last year, data showed on Wednesday, paving the way for what is expected to be a tough contraction for the bloc as a whole in 2012. More »

Agency cuts the sovereign credit ratings of Italy, Spain, Belgium, Slovenia and Cyprus and indicated the possibility of further cuts

The escalation comes amid a court battle during which the former Belgian minister has sought to overturn a law that scaled back banking secrecy

The coalition government was given until Monday to trim its budget or face fines of hundreds of millions of euros

It was a Liberal Prime Minister, Guy Verhofstadt (now the leader of the ALDE Group in the European Parliament) who ensured that legislation to permit medically assisted dying was brought forward in Belgium a decade ago.  Publication of the report by the independent commission on assisted dying, chaired by Lord Falconer, should be a reminder to

Belgium has refused to open its labour market to workers from Romania and Bulgaria on the grounds that many nationals of those countries already working there cheat the social benefits system, EurActiv has learned. More »

The new Belgian government will help move forward European integration in a logic of "well understood" federalism, since it will not agree to transfer powers to agencies without democratic control, Pascal Delwit, professor of Political Science at the Free University of Brussels, told EurActiv in an exclusive interview. More »

Belgium believes that Europe has gone too far by delegating power to agencies and technocrats that lack political legitimacy, Pascal Delwit, political science professor at the Free University of Brussels (ULB), told EurActiv in an exclusive interview. The issue is likely to come up at the EU summit scheduled to start tomorrow (8 December). More »

Romanian and Bulgarian workers should be allowed in Belgium as of 1 January next year, after Flanders, the last Belgian region opposing the move, lifted its veto. More »

The rating agency's move shows that the eurozone crisis is no longer confined to the currency bloc's "peripheral" countries