Tervuren’s €74mn spending plan for 2026–31 is set to raise the town’s debt from nearly €23mn in 2025 to €40.7mn by 2030, though Mayor Thomas Geyns said the increase remains under control. Town councilors approved the plan at an almost 5 hour monthly meeting on Dec. 18. “Taxes are not rising,” Geyns said. A one-off […]
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Mayor, councillor row suspends meeting
A council meeting in Tervuren descended into chaos when Mayor Thomas Geyns and opposition councillor Serge Liesenborghs erupted into a shouted exchange, forcing the council chair Mario Van Rossum to suspend proceedings. The confrontation began with a dispute over new Diftar waste-collection charges and whether households could end up paying double, triple or even quadruple […]
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Tervuren: natural as book’s ending
After decades away from Belgium, Tervuren quickly became more than a new home for Belgian-Indian writer Shake Malhotra. She found a sense of balance, belonging and the calm she had been searching for. And Tervuren provides the vivid setting for the first short story in her new book. The forest paths, the slower rhythm and […]
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Tervuren is great inspiration for writer Jon Echanove
“My novels tend to confront characters with unfamiliar cultures and adapt to other languages and codes. From that point of view, Tervuren is a great resource,” says Spanish author Jon Echanove in this interview with Tervuren+. In this interview, we turn to Echanove’s writings, life in Tervuren, and latest novel, El Aprendiz, published by Penguin’s […]