La Belgique : une économie sous influence étrangère ?

This article tries to give a review of the degree of the country’s economic openness by combining recent evolution data on Belgian foreign trade with information on foreign investments, and by defining buyouts and holding of shares in some Belgian companies by foreign groups. The three fields show specific evolutions. Although Belgium - despite its small territory - is still well-ranked in the world’s top export countries, and has still a favorable trade balance, it has lost a bit of its attractiveness in terms of foreign investment’s reception, particularly regarding employment, because inves... Mehr ...