Explore the history of Brussels’ parks
Thanks to its careless approach to urban planning, the “brusselisation” of a city is synonym of haphazard urban development and
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Author: Martin Vieira Dieste
The job-seeking hassle in Belgium
What to expect from a job application? Not much it seems. If you are a job-seeker you will be familiar
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Cycling safely in Brussels: leave your headphones at home and catch an earworm
Each year more and more cyclists take the roads in Brussels. There has been a yearly increase of 13% in
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An opportunity to invest in a greener Brussels and the social economy: Urbike cooperative shares for sale
Urbike is a Brussels-based cooperative that promotes the transition to greener urban deliveries by switching small truck deliveries to cargo
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Last-minute Christmas shopping: some ethical gift ideas
Over the 20th century, the rise of the disposable income coupled with marketing campaigns from stores and industries turned Christmas
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Belgium among the 152 countries that ratified the UN Migration Pact
Migration has been largely governed by rules established in the first half of the century, which did not anticipate that
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How to formalise employment in the food services industry: lessons from Brussels
Some years back, Belgium wanted to bring the Horeca (food services industry) into full legality by encouraging a greater formalisation
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From Brexit to Brussels: A Belgian way of wooing companies to move to Europe’s capital
With an ever-so uncertain outcome from Brexit, companies are increasingly jumpy about the consequences of a poorly executed deal. A
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This Sunday it is time to Claim the Climate
On Sunday 2nd of December at noon thousands of people will converge from across Belgium in Brussels to urge politicians
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In Brussels there live two rats per person
Where humans gather, animals thrive. Since the birth of agriculture and even some time before, humans have spread domesticated species
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