International

Opera Vlaanderen crowned Best Opera Company of the Year 2019

10 May 2019

Fourth time lucky: Opera Vlaanderen has won the main prize of Best Opera Company of the Year 2019 at the prestigious International Opera Awards.

First Flanders Heritage Venues announced

09 April 2019

On 26 February, the first six locations to join the network of ‘Flanders Heritage Venues’ were announced.

A Belgian awarded European Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2019

02 April 2019

The photographer Martin Steenhaut has won the prestigious award European Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2019.

Ingrid Daubechies, winner of the L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Award

26 March 2019

On 14 March 2019, mathematician and physicist Ingrid Daubechies received the L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Award.

New York Times extols the merits of Ghent

12 March 2019

The UNESCO World Heritage City of Bruges is well known both at home and abroad.

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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