761 tonnes

of road salt spread by the Flemish roads and traffic agency on the first night of last week’s cold snap, bringing the total this winter to 8,829 tonnes

40%

of the tickets for this year’s Tomorrowland festival in Boom will be reserved for Belgian applicants, organisers said. Tickets go on sale on 24 March, two weeks before open sales to fans in other countries

200,000 tonnes

of grain capacity to be built by Eurosilo in the port of Ghent, bringing total capacity there to 850,000 tonnes. The new terminal will be built on the Kluizendok

€50,000

to each of two neighbourhood schemes in the Brussels communes of Schaarbeek and Anderlecht from the Flemish community commission in Brussels, ensuring their continued work with the poor of those areas