– Brugge City is excited and busy for final detail preparations of the royal visit on Friday of King Philippe and Queen Mathilde.

– More and more young Belgians are now on a 2-day school & 3-day work schemes to fill 60,000 workers needed in different sectors vacated merely by retired employees.

– The European Court of Justice sentenced the Kingdom of Belgium to a fine of 10 million euros due to failed water purification treatment in Wallonia and Brussels regions. It is the second time that Belgium will be fined by the European Court for lack of waste water treatment. The European Commission has noted several shortcomings and overdue works when it dragged Belgium in the autumn of 2011 before the Court .