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Climate
Main article: Climate in Europe
Population
Main article: Population of Belgium
Cities
Citizenship and residence permit
2019: Number of permits with a residence permit per 1000 inhabitants of Belgium
Passport strength
Parliament
2022
The share of seats of the far-right VB party (Vlaams Belang) - 12%
Proportion of women in Parliament
Government
Foreign policy
2023: Belgium spends €200 million of frozen Russian assets at its discretion
Belgium spent €200 million of frozen Russian assets at its discretion, Prime Minister Alexander de Croo said in May 2023.
2022: Blocking Russian assets worth 58 billion euros after the outbreak of conflict in Ukraine
After the outbreak of the conflict in Ukraine in 2022, Belgium froze Russian assets more than all countries European Union - by €58 billion, writes The Brussels. The restrictions affected 1,789 Russian companies and citizens, and the total amount of blocked transactions related Russia to reached €191 billion euros.
Health care
Science and Research
2020: More than 100,000 animals are used for scientific purposes
Almost 8 million animals are used for scientific purposes in Europe and half of them are laboratory mice and rats.
Economy
Main article: Economy of Belgium
Tourism
2019: More than 45% of the population went on tourist trips. France is the most popular country
2018: Tourism revenue
Agriculture
2019: Average use of pesticides in agriculture
Potato production per capita
1. Belarus - 631.3 kg per 1 person
2. Ukraine - 487.4 kg
3. Netherlands - 384.8 kg
4. Denmark - 343.3 kg
5. Belgium - 299.2 kg
6. Latvia - 251.3 kg
7. Kyrgyzstan - 230 kg
8. Poland - 229.8 kg
9. Russia - 216.8 kg
10. Kazakhstan - 208.5 kg
Armed Forces
2023: Defence spending - 1.3% of GDP
US nuclear missiles
2023:15 hydrogen bombs B-61
2022
Fighter aircrafts
Culture
Music
Religion
2022:11% of the population attends divine services at least once a month
2021:11% of the population say religion is important in their lives
MEDIA
2022:75% of the population watch TV every day
Crime
Moroccan Mafia (Mocro Maffia)
Main article: Moroccan Mafia (Mocro Maffia)
2021: Number of intentional murders
and the United
Prisons
2019: Minimum age for children to be jailed
Sport
2022: The most popular sport is football
History
2019: Recruitment of Belgian politician by China to guide discussions in Europe
The undercover officer had been paying and directing the far-right Belgian politician for more than three years.
Daniel Wu, a member of China's Ministry of State Security spy agency, pushed Frank Kreielman, a former Belgian senator, to influence discussions in Europe on issues ranging from China's "suppression of democracy in Hong Kong" to "persecution of Uighurs in Xinjiang."
The relationship between the Chinese officer and his Belgian agent is documented in text messages from 2019 to the end of 2022, which were obtained from a Western security source in a joint investigation by the Financial Times, Der Spiegel and Le Monde.
1931: The Belgian crew reached the stratosphere with a record altitude of 15.7 thousand meters
1928
1918: End of World War I. 117,000 casualties and famine in Belgium
Main article: World War I
1908: Colony formation Belgian Congo
Belgian Congo (French: Congo belge, Netherlands. Belgisch-Kongo) is a colony of Belgium that existed in the territory of the modern Democratic Republic of the Congo after King Leopold II of Belgium sold the Independent State of the Congo to the Belgian state on November 15, 1908, and before the declaration of independence of the Congo on June 30, 1960.
In 1908, the Belgian Chamber of Deputies adopted the will of King Leopold II to officially seize the territory of the Congo. The Great Powers recognized annexation unquestioningly.
A year later, the king of Belgium, remembered by the local peoples as a tyrant, slave owner and exploiter, died.
Belgium tried to erase the name of Leopold III from people's memory. But not all Congolese forgot the labor camps, severed brushes, beatings and murders of the late 19 century, when Belgium decided to bite off a piece of African pie.
1904
1885: Congo - personal possession of the bloody king of Belgium Leopold II
Now few people remember the Belgian king Leopold II. Meanwhile, this man deserves to take one of the leading places in the pantheon of the bloodiest rulers of the twentieth century. Having registered in his personal property the Congo Free State created on his initiative, he organized a grandiose factory from the controlled territory to pump its wealth into his own pocket.
According to modern historians, over the twenty years of the existence of this state, Leopold earned up to one and a half billion euros in modern money. The number of lives that the Congolese have put in for this is estimated between one million and fifteen million.
Locals who failed to carry out the plan to collect rubber were either simply killed or maimed. It was a common practice to take children hostage, then cutting off their hands and feet for poor work. These were not individual excesses, but a system: the taskmaster was required to either execute the plan, or present the required number of severed limbs as justification for its failure to fulfill. Otherwise, the taskmaster himself was killed.
Perversions of all kinds were only encouraged, since it was believed that the more the controlled population fears you, the better it works: therefore, it was not uncommon for children to be forced to kill their parents, or vice versa.
This izuver state was created under the plausible pretext of combating the slave trade, modernizing and educating local residents. At least this position was presented in the Belgian press. Only near the end of the king's life, this striking discrepancy of high goals with low-lying methods allowed the "opposition" public to organize a large-scale criticism of Leopold and his methods of management. As a result, he only had to sell Belgium the right to own the state.
In February 2019, the UN called on Belgium to apologize for crimes against the Democratic Republic of the Congo during colonialism.
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