– © Peter Hilz – What has long been feared is gradually coming to fruition: a peak of bankruptcies occurred in the past month of March. Antwerp has the worst score of all Flemish provinces: an increase of 128.7% compared to March last year. According to Eric Van den Broele of Graydon Belgium, this is … Read more
“Bokrijk must return 17 buildings to the city of Antwerp” Gazette of Antwerp organized an April Fools’ joke himself, together with Antwerp’s alderman for Tourism Koen Kennis. According to the aldermen, Open Air Museum Bokrijk in Genk must urgently return a series of historic buildings to the city of Antwerp. The seventeen houses once stood … Read more
– A new tidal dock is to be built between the Deurganck dock and the polder village of Doel. Now that the action groups have ceased their resistance, the main obstacle to the port expansion has been removed. — © Jan Van der Perre – The Wase activist groups have stopped their proceedings before the … Read more
– The BV panel is amused to hear so much cat whine. — © VTM – “Do they sing really or badly?” is the catchphrase of ‘I Can See Your Voice’. But the only thing we wondered during the new Saturday evening program of VTM was ‘are they really making this up that bad?’ In … Read more
– © AMR ALFIKY, rr – For almost two years, city guide Patrick van Rosendaal had to survive in New York without tourists, because the borders were closed due to the corona pandemic. He was close to having to return broke with his family, but since November he has been seeing the first tourists again. … Read more
– © Shutterstock – Due to the increased price of raw materials, new construction will become more expensive and some buyers will feel that even after signing the sales agreement. The fact that interest rates are also rising and the housing market is more than saturated does not make it easy to buy a new … Read more
– © Frank Bahnmuller – No, he doesn’t know who ‘The mole’ is yet. That is necessary, says Michiel Devlieger (57), who is now head of fiction at Woestijnvis. Only in this way can he help with the assembly without prejudice. Because one of the original creators has been mainly concerned with what goes on … Read more
– Two weeks ago there was a demonstration against the war in Brighton Beach. — © AFP – New York – Nowhere outside of Ukraine and Russia is the war more sensitive than in Brighton Beach, a suburb of New York. In the 1990s, the southernmost tip of Brooklyn was discredited by the Russian mafia, … Read more
– “One day we will have to pay that back,” says economist Gert Peersman (UGent). – With much fanfare, the federal government parties are highlighting their latest energy agreement. VAT down, checks for the oil boilers and so on. Only economists fear that the conclusion will be disastrously disappointing. You can hardly call the interventions … Read more
– © Dirk Vertommen / VTM – Pommelien Thijs hinted very clearly on Instagram last weekend to Miss Poes, one of the finalists of The Masked Singer. The singer is the number one prime suspect with the viewer, and her post seems to confirm the suspicion of many. Although it could just as well be … Read more