International

Belgium has been elected to the UNESCO World Heritage Committee

09 December 2021

Belgium joins the prestigious UNESCO Committee for the next four years on the occasion of the 23rd General Assembly of States Parties to the World Heritage Convention.

Limburg company breaks world dominoes record with laptops

18 November 2021

World records. Even the craziest ones exist, such as dominoes with discarded laptops. The environmental and recycling SME Out of Use from Beringen in Limburg is the new world record holder.

Belgium increases its donation of COVID-19 vaccines to poor countries

04 November 2021

Meryame Kitir, the Belgian Minister of Development Cooperation, has announced that Belgium will deliver 3.8 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine to poor countries in the coming weeks.

Two Belgian SMEs stand out at European level.

13 October 2021

FoodDrinkEurope presents a European Award to European SMEs in the food sector that have reduced their environmental impact or encourage people to lead healthier lives.

Does your daily cup of coffee come from Antwerp?

13 October 2021

In the huge Molenbergnatie warehouses in the port of Antwerp, the world's largest stock of raw coffee is stored in hessian bags: 400,000 tonnes, or 43 billion cups, the equivalent of six cups for

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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