3,200

bicycles reported stolen in Brussels in 2011, an average of nine a day and, according to police, only one-quarter of all bicycle thefts

33.9%

of new businesses were started by young people between 18 and 30, compared to 36.6% in 2002, according to a survey by the Neutral Syndicate for the Self-Employed (NSZ)

118th

place in the world rankings for the Flemish Supercomputer Centre at Ghent University, with calculating power equivalent to more than 150,000 billion calculations a second

€750,000

asking price for the villa belonging to Dexia chairman Jean-Luc Dehaene in Vilvoorde. The villa is advertised as close to the new European School, with four bedrooms and a heated swimming pool