- TODAY: 16 March 2026 - Public session of the City Council
Brussels Public Meetings Summary - 2026-03-16
🚨 URGENT: Meetings TODAY (March 16, 2026)
⭐ Bruxelles-Ville (1000)
- TODAY: 16 March 2026 - Public session of the City Council
- Time: Time TBC (usually evenings)
- Status: MEETING TODAY!
⭐ Etterbeek (1040)
- TODAY: Lundi 16 mars 2026 à 20h00
- Location: Salle du conseil de l'hôtel communal
- Status: MEETING TODAY AT 8 PM!
- Agenda PDF available: 20260316_OJ_PUBLIC_0.pdf
📅 Upcoming Meetings This Week & Next
Ixelles (1050)
- 19 mars 2026 (Wednesday) - Next council meeting in 3 days
- Agenda and documents available (PDFs: 171 Ko + 3141 Ko)
- Usually Thursdays at 19h00, Council chamber
📅 Upcoming Meetings - Rest of March
Anderlecht (1070)
- 26 mars 2026 - Next meeting in 10 days
- YouTube Live Stream: https://youtube.com/live/RJk2Pm5tSaE
- Full transparency with live streaming
Forest (1190)
- 24 mars 2026 - Next meeting in 8 days
- Time: Tuesdays at 19h30
- YouTube Live: commune de forest gemeente
📅 April Meetings Confirmed
Multiple Communes with April Meetings:
- Bruxelles-Ville: 20 April 2026
- Etterbeek: 20 avril 2026 à 20h00
- Anderlecht: 23 avril 2026 (YouTube live)
- Ixelles: 23 avril 2026
- Forest: 21 avril 2026 à 19h30 (YouTube live)
📊 Data Quality by Commune
✅ Excellent Information Retrieved:
- Bruxelles-Ville (1000) - Full schedule with dates through June
- Etterbeek (1040) - Complete meeting info + TODAY'S agenda PDF
- Ixelles (1050) - Schedule + downloadable documents
- Anderlecht (1070) - Comprehensive with YouTube live streams
- Evere (1140) - Council composition and citizen participation info
- Forest (1190) - Full 2026 schedule + YouTube live streaming
⚠️ Limited Information:
- Parlement de Bruxelles - Structure visible but dynamic content issues
- Schaerbeek (1030) - Technical issues with JavaScript/JSON parsing
- Saint-Gilles (1060) - Focus on participation rather than meeting schedules
🔍 Still Need to Complete
Remaining Communes (10 still to complete):
- Molenbeek (1080) - ⚠️ Placeholder created
- Koekelberg (1081) - ⚠️ Placeholder created
- Ganshoren (1083) - ⚠️ Placeholder created
- Jette (1090)
- Woluwe-Saint-Pierre (1150)
- Auderghem (1160)
- Watermael-Boitsfort (1170)
- Uccle (1180)
- Woluwe-Saint-Lambert (1200)
- Saint-Josse (1210)
📋 Key Findings
Common Patterns:
- Most councils meet monthly (except July-August)
- Evening meetings typical (19h00-20h00)
- Monday/Thursday popular meeting days
- Many communes offer live streaming or recording
- Citizen interpellation rights widely available
- PDF agendas typically available 7+ days before meetings
Technical Issues Encountered:
- JavaScript-heavy sites with dynamic content loading
- Some communes have robots.txt restrictions
- JSON parsing errors on newer municipal websites
- Cookie consent popups affecting scraping
Best Practices Observed:
- Anderlecht: YouTube live streaming archive back to 2021
- Etterbeek: PDF agendas with clear file naming conventions
- Ixelles: Structured calendar with document downloads
- Bruxelles-Ville: Clear multi-month schedule publication
📞 Contact Information Collected
For Meeting Information:
- Bruxelles-Ville: Meetings and Governance department
- Etterbeek: Secrétariat communal - 02 627 21 11
- Saint-Gilles: Service Organisation des assemblées - assemblees.1060@stgilles.brussels
- Anderlecht: publi.irisnet.be document portal
- Evere: 02/247.62.22
🎯 Action Items
- Immediate: Alert about TODAY'S meetings (Bruxelles-Ville & Etterbeek)
- This Week: Monitor Wednesday meeting in Ixelles (March 19)
- Complete Remaining: Continue scraping 10+ remaining communes
- Follow-up: Check technical issues with Schaerbeek and other problematic sites
Generated: Monday, March 16, 2026 - Based on lightpanda scraping of Brussels commune websites