“We have alternatives” march links employment and social protection to anti-austerity demands

After months in the Beguinage church, around 230 undocumented people began a hunger strike. They said promised regularisation criteria had not materialised and used their own health to force attention...

A Brussels climate-change demonstration mobilised an estimated 13,000 people according to police and around 15,000 according to media and researchers. It formed part of the Belgian climate...

The European Trade Union Confederation organised a Brussels Euro-demonstration as part of a coordinated day of action across Europe. Participants opposed austerity policies and called for investment...

A student-initiated, politically neutral demonstration in Brussels demanded a government after months of coalition deadlock. Police estimated about 34,000 participants; organisers gave a higher...

Workers and organisations from Belgium’s non-profit sector demonstrated in Brussels over pressures on services and working conditions. A comparative protest study records roughly 13,800 participants...

The 24-hour general strike protested pension reforms introduced with limited social dialogue by the Di Rupo government. Unions argued that reforms would hit younger, older and lower-income people...

A national demonstration opened a month of rolling union actions against the centre-right government’s planned pension-age increase, wage restraint and public-service cuts. Police estimated at least...

The country’s two largest union confederations jointly organised a 24-hour general strike after a month of escalating actions. Workers opposed pension-age increases, wage freezes and cuts to public...

After a month-long informal camp near Belgium’s immigration office, the citizen support platform ended its operations in Maximilien Park on 1 October 2015. Refugees, volunteers, neighbourhood groups...

Thousands marched in Brussels against the proposed EU-US TTIP deal and the EU-Canada CETA agreement. The coalition linked trade rules to labour protections, public services, health, farming and...