Nightclubs in Brussels will open "with or without permission" on February 18

Brussels will see its nightlife spaces re-open on February 18, despite COVID restrictions still being in place throughout Belgium.

The move is part of a protest against the Consultation Committee's lack of action over the reopening of the nightlife sector — which has been shuttered since Autumn 2021.

“We cooperated: first for two weeks, then for a few months and finally we closed for two years, but enough is enough,” Lorenzo Serra of the Brussels By Night Federation, which represents nightclubs in the city told Bruzz.

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Serra added that the nightlife sector has been “without perspective and with insufficient financial support since the brief reopening in the fall of 2021.”

“The government-imposed barometer appears to be nothing more than an outdated tool to permanently impose a closure,” said Serra who also explained that “entrepreneurs in our industry can’t take any more. Many are about to sell everything,”.

There will be a Consultation Committee meeting taking place on February 11 which will see them discuss a date to reopen clubs which sees the nightclub organisers of Brussels willing to postpone by a few days.

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