International

Belgian household waste quantity smaller than European average

22 February 2022

416 kg. This is how much household waste the average Belgian inhabitant produced in 2020, well below the EU average of 505 kg. This puts our country in a great sixth place.

The world is wide open for holders of a Belgian driving licence

03 February 2022

Belgian holiday-makers and future expats will be happy to hear that a Belgian driver's licence is the best way to travel around the world.

Belgian wins international street art competition

31 January 2022

Belgian Nigel Leirens has won first prize in an international street art competition for his work entitled "The Girl with the Windmills", which adorns a building in Lokeren, East Flanders.

Do you know the latest Belgian story?

27 January 2022

Natacha, Tintin, the Marsupilami, Spike and Suzy, Billy & Buddy, Cari Fleur, Blake and Mortimer, the Kiekeboes, Lucky Luke, the Smurfs, Spirou & Fantasio, Jeremy, Largo Winch, and Neron.

A successful achievement for a young Belgian pilot aged 19

21 January 2022

Zara Rutherford, a 19 year old Belgian-British woman, has just broken the record for the youngest woman to have flown solo around the world in an ultralight aircraft.

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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