Brussels and Flanders hold quite a lot of records, but there is one they would rather do without: traffic jams. Because of their lack of spatial planning, their small size and tonnes of commuters and foreigners just passing through, the regions are at the top of the European charts when it comes to losing precious time in traffic.
In the sumptuous surroundings of The Glasshouses, an event hall in the arty Chelsea neighbourhood of Manhattan, aldermen Philip Heylen and Koen Kennis of the city of Antwerp and Peter De Wilde of Toerisme Vlaanderen joined the museum’s ambassador, the Belgian- American fashion icon Diane von Furstenberg, to mark the start of a promotion aimed specifically at the American market.