Maïthé Chini

2 weeks ago | brusselstimes.com | Maïthé Chini

MR's David Leisterh arrives for a meeting organised by MR with the parties willing to start talks on the proposal to form a new government for the Brussels Capital Region, on Friday 06 June 2025, in Brussels. Credit: Belga/Eric LalmandWhile short-lived glimmers of hope alternated with disappointments for a year, a new Brussels Government is no closer to being formed than the day after the elections.

2 weeks ago | brusselstimes.com | Maïthé Chini

Brussels skyline. Credit: Belga / James Arthur GekiereExactly one year after the regional elections on 9 June 2024, the next Brussels Government has still not been formed. How is this possible? And how does the Capital Region get out of this deadlock? Barely four days after the elections, Belgium's German-speaking Community found a new government agreement. Within a month, the Walloon Region and the French-speaking Community followed.

2 weeks ago | brusselstimes.com | Maïthé Chini

A Belgian hospital is performing an increasing number of kidney transplants with living donors. In 2024, doctors at UZ Leuven performed 21 of these kidney transplants – a remarkable increase compared to previous years. Belgium is a world leader in post-mortem organ donation, but transplants involving a living donor are still relatively rare. Only 10% of kidney transplants in Belgium involve a kidney from a living donor, compared to 50% in the Netherlands.

3 weeks ago | brusselstimes.com | Maïthé Chini

A woman holds a Shein shopping bag. Credit: Yuichi Yamazaki/AFP/BelgaBelgian consumer protection organisation Testachats, together with 24 other organisations across Europe, has filed a complaint against the Chinese platform SHEIN for using misleading practices and fuelling overconsumption. A total of 25 consumer organisations across Europe are filing a complaint with the European Commission and the network of consumer protection authorities in Europe against SHEIN.

3 weeks ago | brusselstimes.com | Maïthé Chini

The Francophone liberal party, MR, will be meeting with all "democratic" parties that are willing to start talks on the party's proposal for a Brussels policy statement on Friday from 15:00, announced Brussels leader David Leisterh. At the end of May, MR presented an 80-page policy statement to "save Brussels" and sent it to all parties, except radical left PTB-PVDA, Flemish far-right Vlaams Belang and controversial regionalist newcomer Team Fouad Ahidar.