Belgian Cup: Bruges hooligans commit a rampage in the Molenbeek and Jette districts
On May 4, 2025, during the Belgian Cup final between Club Brugge and RSC Anderlecht, Bruges hooligans committed acts of violence in Molenbeek-Saint-Jean and Jette.
Ramadan and Public Schools in Primary and Secondary Education – Belgian Law
Nadia, 14 years old, attends a public school in the Brussels Region. She is in good health and doesn’t encounter any particular difficulties at school. During a physical education class, her teacher addresses the class and states that all Muslim students should not fast during her class. Does a teacher have the right to forbid a student from fasting during the month of Ramadan?
Absence on Religious Holidays – Belgian Law
Camélia, a Muslim, is a mathematics teacher in a secondary school located in the Brussels Region. She wants to wear a headscarf but wonders about the applicable rules in her professional setting: are distinctive signs allowed in the exercise of her duties? Is the principle of neutrality applicable?
Fasting at Work – Belgian Law
Camélia, a Muslim, is a mathematics teacher in a secondary school located in the Brussels Region. She wants to wear a headscarf but wonders about the applicable rules in her professional setting: are distinctive signs allowed in the exercise of her duties? Is the principle of neutrality applicable?
Neutrality in Public Primary and Secondary Education: Regulation of Wearing Distinctive Signs by Teachers
Camélia, a Muslim, is a mathematics teacher in a secondary school located in the Brussels Region. She wants to wear a headscarf but wonders about the applicable rules in her professional setting: are distinctive signs allowed in the exercise of her duties? Is the principle of neutrality applicable?
Neutrality in Higher Education and the Wearing of Distinctive Signs by Students
Nadia enrolled in a Higher Education institution in the Brussels region, part of the French-speaking community higher education network. She wears a headscarf and everything goes well for her at the beginning of the year within the institution. One morning, while waiting in a hallway, a member of the teaching staff approaches her and asks […]
Brussels: Arrest of a 14-Year-Old Suspected of Planning to Attack a Mosque
A 14-year-old, suspected of planning an attack on a mosque in Brussels, was arrested last Thursday
Brussels University College: Banning Students from Wearing Headscarves is Discriminatory, Belgian Constitutional Court Reminds
A judicial series spanning several years came to an end on November 21, with the anticipated decision of the Constitutional Court.
Brussels: A University Open Letter with Over 300 Signatures to Denounce the Invisibilization of Islamophobia by University Rectors
In recent social media posts, the rectors of two Brussels universities (ULB, Université libre de Bruxelles and VUB, Vrije Universiteit Brussel) have condemned the use of the term ‘anti-Zionism’ which, according to them, is actually used to talk about antisemitism.
Flanders: in municipal elections, the far-right makes its biggest breakthrough since the Second World War
This trend was already apparent in the parliamentary elections last June, and was confirmed this weekend in the municipal elections, where the voting rate for the far right has not been so high since the Second World War. The far-right separatist party Vlaams Belang won the municipality of Ninove, a medium-sized town (30 km from […]
