Belgium and the Belgian State

Small country in the heart of the North-West of Europe, Belgium covers an area of 30,518 sq. km, with a population of about 10,200,000 inhabitants. Brussels, the capital, is an international city, the seat of the NATO and, above all, this one of the European Commission and of the main European institutions. The Belgian Federal State When it was created in 1831, Belgium was a unified constitutional monarchy, with a simple hierarchical structure on three levels: the national State, with 9 provi.