International

Belgium excels with highly qualified IT professionals

21 January 2016

A new study of the EU Statistical Office Eurostat shows that Belgium - after Spain - has the highest percentage of IT specialists with higher education levels.

Belgium, co-founder of the Humanitarian Impact Bond

21 January 2016

The International committee Red Cross (ICRC) and Belgium establish the first Humanitarian Impact Bond (HIB).

Queen Mathilde, defender of Sustainable Development Goals

19 January 2016

Queen Mathilde is now part of a group of fifteen eminent personalities who have been selected by the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

Antwerp world capital for start-ups

13 December 2015

Antwerp has won the prestigious Global Startup Nations Award for its start-up policy.

Brussels is the new Berlin

11 December 2015

Leading American newspaper, the New York Times has recently cited Brussels as one of the most exciting creative locations of the moment.

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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