Don’t dust off the skates this year. A brief cold snap won’t revive the frozen-lake free-for-all of 2022, despite the occasional teenage dash onto the ice spotted last week. Bad news for winter romantics: Tervuren’s lakes are unlikely to freeze solid enough for skating in 2026. Even with temperatures dipping to –5°C, Europe’s 30-day forecast […]
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€74mn Plan Doubles Tervuren Debt to €41mn
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 […]