International

Belgian banking apps amongst world's four best in 2023

12 October 2023

Want to handle your banking affairs electronically in a user-friendly way? Out of 148 financial institutions in 19 countries, you are sitting pretty with two Belgian banks.

AfricaMuseum project wins the NTD Innovation Prize

05 October 2023

The ATRAP (Action Towards Reducing Aquatic snail-borne Parasitic diseases) project has won the international NTD Innovation Prize for its pioneering work on bilharzia, a tropical infectious disease, i

The three Belgian chocolate kings 2024 according to Gault&Millau

21 September 2023

True to tradition, restaurant guide Gault&Millau has awarded its top chocolatiers from Flanders, Wallonia and Brussels.

Venice Film Festival 2023: Belgian Cathalina Geeraerts wins award for Best Acting Performance

14 September 2023

The young Belgian actress won the award for Best Acting Performance for her role in "Holly", the latest film by Belgian director Fien Troch.

Bruges, third most visited city in Europe

31 August 2023

Bruges invariably does well in international rankings. The same goes for the one published by Holiday Home, which compares holiday homes in various countries.

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.

Minister Hadja Lahbib

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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