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All news stories from Brussels.
As city planners digitise and redevelop historic streetscapes across the capital, community members say stock photos and replicated imagery are stripping neighbourhoods of their identity.
From sweltering temperatures that pushed city services to their limits to fresh turbulence in the Molenbeek regeneration project, here is what defined Brussels in the first days of July 2026.
From a brutal July heatwave to sharpened street-level security concerns, Brussels faces the same pressures hitting cities from Paris to Warsaw — but with its own particular complications.
From Molenbeek emergency cooling centres to Ixelles rent disputes, city leaders and urban planners are speaking up — and not always agreeing.
As France counts more than 2,000 excess deaths from last month's heatwave peak, Brussels is testing whether its investments in green infrastructure and emergency cooling centres actually hold up when temperatures spike.