International

Ghent University ranked Belgium's best university again

03 September 2018

Ghent University has once again been voted the highest ranking Belgian university in the Academic Ranking of World Universities.

Mexico honoured on the Grand Place in Brussels

16 August 2018

For 2018, Brussels has chosen to honour the Mexican region of Guanajuato with a colourful carpet of begonias.

A Belgian heads up intellectual property protection

19 July 2018

Friday 13 July 2018 was a lucky day for the Belgian Christian Archambeau. Indeed, on this day he was elected head of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO).

VUB to partner with French and British universities

21 June 2018

The Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) has signed an agreement with the French Université Paris Seine and the British University of Warwick.

Raf Simons wins CFDA Award for the second year running

13 June 2018

The Belgian fashion designer Raf Simons has won a CFDA Award again this year. He claimed his prize for best women's fashion designer.

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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