Former Belgian Prime Minister Jean-Luc Dehaene has been an MEP since 2004. He gives us his take on the French presidential campaign. In his view, Europe has been used as a scapegoat in the campaign.
Belgian Tom Boonen, 31, became only the second rider ever to win a fourth Paris-Roubaix classic on Sunday as he crossed the finish line 1 minute and 39 seconds ahead of Frenchman Sebastien Turgot, with Italian Alessandro Ballan in third place.
Police in Brussels arrested 483 peace activists Sunday after they tried to storm the headquarters of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO). The activists were protesting against the alliance's military interventions and nuclear arming.
Belgian cyclist Tom Boonen rode to victory in the Tour of Flanders on Sunday, Belgium's premier one-day classic. Filippo Pozzato of Italy came second, with 2007 race winner Alessandro Ballan in third place.
Once upon a time, a young Belgian writer sent her first novel to a major French Publisher. The book came out in 1991 : a huge success thanks also to the author's spectacular personality. Olivier Barrot tells us more.
Belgium "weeps for its children". The country is holding a National Day of Mourning for the victims of Tuesday's bus crash in Switzerland. And on Syria, we look at how the British papers are following up on The Guardian's publication of leaked Assad e-mails. That's the focus for the this press review, Friday 16th March 2012.
Belgium observed a minute of silence during a national day of mourning on Friday for the 28 victims, including 22 children, killed in a Tuesday night bus crash as they returned from a skiing trip in the Swiss Alps.
Relatives of the 28 people killed in a horrific bus crash in a Swiss tunnel arrived at the morgue on Thursday to identify the bodies. Tests will be carried out on the body of the driver to determine whether ill health may have caused the crash.
Belgian Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo arrived in Switzerland Wednesday along with the families of the 28 victims, including 22 children, killed when a bus crashed into a tunnel late Tuesday as they returned from a skiing trip to the Alps.
The man who has claimed responsibility for a blaze at a Brussels mosque that left an imam dead said on Tuesday that he set the fire seeking to "scare" Shiites, who he blames for the violence and unrest in Syria.
