Description: The Kingdom of Belgium is located in western Europe, bordering the North Sea, France, Germany, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.

Climate:  Temperate, with mild winters and cool, sometimes wet, summers.

Capital:  Brussels

Population:  10,392,226 (2007 estimate)

Ethnic Diversity: 58% Fleming / 31% Waloon / 11% Mixed or Other.

Languages: Dutch (official) 60% / French (official) 40% / German (official) 1% / Legally Bi-lingual Dutch and French.

Economy: Mainly services and industry.  With few natural resources, Belgium imports substantial quantities of raw materials and exports large quantities of manufactured goods.  This makes its economy unusually dependent on the state of the world markets.  A member of the Euro zone, Belgium mainly trades with other EU countries.

Action Global Communications Belgium was established in Brussels in 2006, primarily to host "Information Centres" that are maintained in the framework of EU Regional Information and Communication projects.  The office, staffed with communications experts, journalists and project managers, handles requests from EC Delegations, supports journalists and helps EU funded civil society campaign managers seeking to disseminate information on their work in the 16 European neighbourhood countries.

•  The European Commission

Rue d’Egmont 15, 1000 Brussels

Phone / Fax: +32 2 513.71.25, +32 2 230.25.13

E-mail: info@enpi-info.eu