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The United States and Belgium maintain a friendly bilateral relationship. Continuing to celebrate cooperative U.S. and Belgian relations, 2007 marked the 175th anniversary of the nations' relationship. According to the 2021 U.S. Global Leadership Report, 41% of Belgians approve of U.S. leadership, with 36% disapproving and 23% uncertain.
Belgian Americans fought in the American Revolutionary War, both world wars and the Korean and Vietnam wars. During World War I Belgian Americans gave generously to the aid of children who were victims of the war, resulting in an official delegation from Belgium to the United States honoring their efforts in 1917.
The economy of Belgium is a highly developed, high-income, mixed economy. [19] Belgium's economy has capitalised on the country's central geographic location, and has a well-developed transport network, and diversified industrial and commercial base. Belgium was the first European country to join the Industrial Revolution in the early 19th century.
Belgian nationality was historically governed by a law dating from 14 December 1932. This law was modified by further laws passed in 1951, 1961, 1964, 1965 and 1967. In 1963, Belgium signed the Strasbourg Convention on Multiple Nationality, which aimed to reduce cases of multiple nationalities following naturalisation.
United States Ministers Resident to Belgium. John Jacob Seibels 1854–1856. Elisha Y. Fair 1858–1861. Henry Shelton Sanford 1861–1869. Joseph Russell Jones 1869–1875. Ayres Phillips Merrill 1876–1877. William C. Goodloe 1878–1880. James O. Putnam 1880–1882.
The Embassy of the United States, Brussels ( French: Ambassade des États-Unis en Belgique; Dutch: Ambassade van de Verenigde Staten in België) is the embassy of the United States to Belgium. It is in the City of Brussels. The embassy initially opened in 1919. The embassy was closed in 1940 after the German invasion of Belgium, and it reopened ...
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