International

The New York Times ranks Ypres among its 52 Places to Go in 2018

01 February 2018

The New York Times, the famous American newspaper with three million subscribers, traditionally starts the year by drawing up a list of unmissable Places to Go.

The Belgian passport rated among the most powerful in the world

31 January 2018

Henley & Partners, which offers consultancy services in global residence and citizenship planning, publishes an annual scoreboard called the "Henley Passport Index".

Belgian butler school goes international

22 January 2018

The School for Butlers & Hospitality in Oostkamp will be going international as from 2018. A new school will open in Luxembourg in January and another in Tuscany in September.

Bokrijk to become a Unesco expert

22 December 2017

UNESCO has declared Bokrijk an expert in folk culture.

Belgian curator at the Metropolitan Museum in New York

07 December 2017

Karen Van Godtsenhoven is to start work at the Metropolitan Museum in New York. She will become the new curator of the fashion department.

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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