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The City of Brussels has a big plan for cigarette butts that are thrown on the street. In addition to raising awareness and installing urban ashtrays, the plan includes an increase in fines and a partnership for recycling collected cigarette butts.

The Red Lions, the men's national field hockey team, have won the Belgian National Sports Merit Award 2019. The award, created and awarded by the City of Brussels, is a prize for Belgian athletes or sports teams.

The City of Brussels has adopted a Charter for Citizen Participation. This charter is a document that will gradually grow and in which the City commits itself to listening, dialogue and transparency.

Since 5 November 2019, the Seniors Service welcomes you in a new 'Espace S' (Seniors Point) in Neder-Over-Heembeek (Kruisberg 30).

Since 1 November 2019, drivers parking their car in the City of Brussels without paying receive their fees at home, instead of behind their windscreen wiper. In this way, fees go directly to the owner of the car and can no longer be blown away or lost.

Works are continuing in the Jonction Sustainable District Contract with several projects: an urban park, a sports hall and the Tissage project. The projects should be completed in 2020 and 2021.