International

Eight cheers for Belgian beers

31 August 2023

The World Beer Awards in London yielded a great return for Belgium’s most famous product: no less than eight beers were awarded!

Three Belgian medals at World Championships of Performing Arts in LA

17 August 2023

Two dexterous Walloons, Maxime Mandrake from La Louvière and Maxime Croisé from Waterloo, conjure two gold and one silver medals in magic at the World Performing Arts Championships in Los Angeles.

Two Belgian universities in top 100 ranking

17 August 2023

The universities of Ghent and Leuven are among the 100 best in the world according to the so-called Shanghai Ranking.

Are we Belgians the richest in the world?

17 August 2023

According to the Global Wealth Report, one of the most important reports on wealth, Belgium's median wealth, at exactly €228,594, is the highest in the whole world for the first time ever.

Baldur’s Gate 3: Belgian video game takes world by storm

10 August 2023

Baldur’s Gate 3, a video game by the Belgian Larian Studios, is the most talked-about role-playing game of the summer.

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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International

Most intelligent dog breed in the world is Belgian

Eight cheers for Belgian beers

Three Belgian medals at World Championships of Performing Arts in LA

Two Belgian universities in top 100 ranking

Are we Belgians the richest in the world?

Baldur’s Gate 3: Belgian video game takes world by storm