International

Our Devils are popular in unsuspected countries

24 June 2021

A recent survey by the search engine Google revealed that people are searching for our Red Devils and its players in unexpected countries.

Europa Nostra Award for the Brussels Gare Maritime

01 June 2021

The renovation and redevelopment project of the Brussels Gare Maritime has been awarded the Europa Nostra European Heritage Award.

The Royal Museum for Central Africa, a flagship for biodiversity

30 April 2021

By joining the Global Coalition for Biodiversity, the Royal Museum for Central Africa is taking a shared approach to the preservation of nature on a global scale.

Forbes ranks Lous and the Yakuza among the best

15 April 2021

Forbes magazine has ranked Belgian-Congolese singer Lous and the Yakuza as one of the most promising talents on the European scene in its 2021 selection.

Our coast guard has a sniffer plane, a Belgian first

14 April 2021

Since 2016, Belgium, a pioneer in the field, has been monitoring the North Sea with a red and white twin-engine coast guard vessel equipped with a nitrogen sensor to ensure that ships do not violate e

A small country with big ambitions!

Covering some 30,000 km², Belgium is not a big country but through its history and its geographic location it has always held an important place in the world, aware that without bridges to others, it would be unrealistic to want to build a fairer and more prosperous world.

For Belgium, effective action on crucial issues such as peace and security, human rights and the promotion of the rule of law, can only be carried out in a multilateral context. Belgium is therefore a founding Member State of many of the great international institutions such as the United Nations (UN), the European Union (EU), the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), and the Council of Europe.

Belgium makes a significant contribution to the work of these institutions, while Brussels is home to the headquarters of several of them and many Belgian politicians have assumed important responsibilities while heading up such organisations.

Based on the open and pragmatic Belgian character, Belgian foreign policy covers universal values, focused on democracy, dialogue and regional integration between countries that may have been in conflict. So as human rights improve and poverty declines and a country opens up to a democratic process, if the economy picks up, development cooperation and economic action can be complementary!

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