From the Editor
Europe’s heart beats in Brussels

Even if this heart is that of a 50-year-old, it never seems to skip a beat.
True, the European Union isn’t moving as fast as its most ardent advocates had hoped. It should never be forgotten, however, that it is indeed responsible for Europe living in peace for over half a century; something entirely unprecedented before its creation.

At the same time, it is illusory to imagine Nation States, after long centuries in the making, overnight renouncing the prerogatives they hold most dear. Yet, they must. They have done it on occasion, with the euro for example. But it takes much more to rise to the challenges of a global world where size is an asset, be it the interconnectedness of fi nancial markets, climate problems, the war on poverty, international regulation of trade…

Brussels is the capital of this very Europe whose future, from this point forward, is clearly global. By extension, its own future has become global. Every day, the world over, wire services, radio, TV and newspapers report that “Brussels has decided” this, that or the other. And when “Brussels decides”, half a billion people are affected. If not all of humankind.

And Belgians are not unaware of the advantages connected to the fact that Europe has chosen their capital city to house the Union institutions, the Council of Ministers, the Commission, the Parliament and, more recently, the Summits of Heads of State and Government. Belgium is a small country, but, to quote the Ambassador of the United States in Brussels in February 2007, “it’s a tiny country with muscle”.

For that reason, and because it furthermore hosts the European and NATO institutions and agencies, an untold number of NGOs and neighborhoods brimming with international fi rms, Belgium can be that voice seldom heard in the world: the voice of small nations and of small markets that are also fl ourishing.

Our point is: discover the real estate market of a country and a city which, albeit small in size, defi nitely play in the big league.
I hope you enjoy your voyage through Belgium via this 2007 Yearbook
Jean Blavier
Editor-in-Chief
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