With 36,000 signatures already having been collected, it is now a certainty that a referendum on affordable housing will be held in the East Flemish city of Ghent. The signatures have already been verified and it is now up to the city authorities to come up with a question that can be put before the good people Ghent. Affordable housing activists collected enough signatures and Ghent City Council is now obliged to hold a referendum on the issue that is clearly important to many in Ghent. The referendum that will be consultative rather than binding will be held in October. [...]

At the trial of those accused of having carried out the 2016 terrorist attacks at Zaventem airport and on the Brussels metro, the prosecution has requested that one of the defendants be acquitted due to lack of evidence. Another defendant has had some of the charges brought against him dropped. [...]

According to figures released by the banking federation Febelfin, 39.8 million euro were stolen in Belgium through phishing last year. This is a sharp increase of 60% on the amount defrauded in this way during 2021. Online fraudsters are reported to have taken advantage of the energy crisis in order steal cash from their unsuspecting victims. [...]

With 36,000 signatures already having been collected, it is now a certainty that a referendum on affordable housing will be held in the East Flemish city of Ghent. The signatures have already been verified and it is now up to the city authorities to come up with a question that can be put before the good people Ghent. Affordable housing activists collected enough signatures and Ghent City Council is now obliged to hold a referendum on the issue that is clearly important to many in Ghent. The referendum that will be consultative rather than binding will be held in October. [...]

At the trial of those accused of having carried out the 2016 terrorist attacks at Zaventem airport and on the Brussels metro, the prosecution has requested that one of the defendants be acquitted due to lack of evidence. Another defendant has had some of the charges brought against him dropped. [...]

According to figures released by the banking federation Febelfin, 39.8 million euro were stolen in Belgium through phishing last year. This is a sharp increase of 60% on the amount defrauded in this way during 2021. Online fraudsters are reported to have taken advantage of the energy crisis in order steal cash from their unsuspecting victims. [...]