International

Several Belgian films lauded in Estonian festival

23 November 2023

Belgian films have fallen in favour at the prestigious Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, with three movies taking home prizes, proving Belgians’ adeptness at the seventh art.

Belgian students win the Solar Challenge

30 October 2023

In Australia, KU Leuven students have once again won the Solar Challenge, the unofficial world championship for solar cars.

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.

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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