BE
Belgium
Royaume de Belgique (French)/Koninkrijk Belgie (Dutch)/Koenigreich Belgien (German)
Kingdom of Belgium
Official addresses
The association has no official government address for this country yet. It will be added when one can be taken from a publisher that permits it.
- Form of government
- federal parliamentary democracy under a constitutional monarchy
- Capital
- Brussels
- Head of state
- King PHILIPPE (since 21 July 2013)
- Head of government
- Prime Minister Bart DE WEVER (since 3 February 2025)
- Cabinet
- Council of Ministers formally appointed by the monarch
- Highest court
- Constitutional Court or Grondwettelijk Hof (in Dutch) and Cour Constitutionelle (in French) (consists of 12 judges - 6 Dutch-speaking and 6 French-speaking); Supreme Court of Justice or Hof van Cassatie (in Dutch) and Cour de Cassation (in French) (court organized into 3 chambers: civil and commercial; criminal; social, fiscal, and armed forces; each chamber includes a Dutch division and a French division, each with a chairperson and 5-6 judges)
- Independence
- 4 October 1830 (a provisional government declared independence from the Netherlands); 21 July 1831 (King LEOPOLD I ascended to the throne)
- National day
- Belgian National Day (ascension to the throne of King LEOPOLD I), 21 July (1831)
This directory was compiled on 12 October 2026.
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