International

Belgium puts water, the building blocks of life, centre stage at World Expo Osaka 2025

27 July 2023

Architect Cyril Rousseaux from La Louvière in Wallonia founded the consortium that will build the Belgian pavilion at the World Expo in Osaka 2025.

National Day: Belgians march in London too

20 July 2023

The Belgian parade is held annually at the Cenotaph in London on the Saturday before 21 July, Belgium's National Day.

Belgian researcher wins Blue Planet Prize 2023

13 July 2023

Debarati Guha-Sapir, a researcher at UCLouvain, has received this prestigious international prize, which recognises individuals or organisations that have helped to solve global environmental problems

KU Leuven rises in world ranking

06 July 2023

Belgian university KU Leuven has jumped up 15 places in the Quacquarelli Symonds World University Rankings and is now in 61st place.

Finger-licking good hospital food

29 June 2023

A stay in the hospital is no fun, but good food can put a plaster on the wound. And even more so when culinary top guide Gault&Millau awards a quality label to it.

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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