Cancelled last year, the corny but wonderful Bal National which takes place on National Day eve, is back this year but with a difference and it’s being called the Almost Normal Edition. Possibly the most fun event in Brussels, it’s extremely popular and the city is deploying a balancing act to make it available to as many people as possible while maintaining pandemic rules.The reservations are filling up quickly but there is another way to attend. The cafés that ring the square have doubled the size of their terraces and an additional 1,350 people without reservations will be allowed into the square at a time and they will sit at the café terraces.www.balnational.be

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- Use your #BrusselsVoice: EU citizens asked for opinion on issues facing capital

- Our top picks of events and activities in and around Brussels

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