Alexandre Brecx
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I have to confess: I’m 31 and I can barely do 10 push-ups 😅
Uganda's president, 75, has made an exercise video.
Yoweri Museveni says he wants to encourage people to exercise at home during the coronavirus pandemic.
#BBCAfricaLive
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Traffic jam in
#Brussels
is getting completely out of control, and I love it ! 😎🚲
#Bike
#BrusselsbyBike
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#LeavingUganda
10/10 | As I’m on my way to Entebbe airport, I look around and my thoughts are with all the citizens of
#Uganda
.
I wish you peace, health, prosperity and a bright future. May you achieve your dreams…
🇧🇪 It’s been an honour to serve
#Belgium
here! So long! 🙂
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23h59, that's (officially) all folks ! 🥲
Mixed feeling of pride, relief, fulfilment, exhaustion, gratitude and already a bit of nostalgia.
It has been the craziest experience of my life, one I'll never forget.
Ciao
#EU2024BE
and merci 👋
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End of the lockdown in
#Uganda
.
River Nile.
Pure beauty.
Hope the world will be allowed to come back soon to
#VisitUganda
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#LeavingUganda
2/10 | Winston Churchill once famously quoted
#Uganda
“the Pearl of Africa”. This is no cliché.
Yes, this country truly is gifted by its incredible
#nature
,
#flora
and
#fauna
. Let’s have a closer look, in pictures... ⤵️ 📷
#PearlofAfrica
#wildlife
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Closing the Embassy on this final working day of 2020. Wishing all Ugandans a bright, peaceful, healthy and prosperous 2021.
#HappyNewYear
#Uganda
#Kampala
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When the sun burns your eyes after 12 hours of coreper meeting and 9 months of rain.
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Be equal.
Be open.
Be diverse.
Spread love ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 with the Belgian presidency
#EU2024BE
🇧🇪🇪🇺 !
#IDAHOBIT2024
(And as usual, sparing a special thought for my friends in Uganda & elsewhere who cannot be who they are)
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#EU2024BE
countdown: in exactly 200 days, Belgium will take over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union.
Relax.
😱😱😱
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🇧🇪🇪🇺 Very happy to announce that I officially joined the Permanent Representation of
#Belgium
to the
#EuropeanUnion
, where I will work as spokesperson with my colleague Niels.
Looking forward to many exchanges under this mosaic of colours and diversity !
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👀 Behind the scenes of the European Summit, when the 🇧🇪 Prime Minister takes a break to debrief the Belgian media
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🇪🇺🇧🇪 Only 6 months to go before the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the European Union! The Permanent Representation is getting ready, with a smile...
#EU2024BE
[ Finally a new profile picture 😅 ]
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📍 Spotted: Belgian Prime Minister
@alexanderdecroo
debriefing the journalists at the end of the first day of the European Council
#EUCO
🇧🇪🇪🇺
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🏳️🌈🇧🇪🇪🇺 Proud to add the rainbow flag at the entrance of the Permanent Representation of
#Belgium
today, ready to celebrate
#IDAHOT
#IDAHOT2022
.
Because
#loveislove
and we are all
#freeandequal
!
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In the streets, at home, in the office… Love is love ! 🏳️🌈
🇺🇬 This year with a special thought for the Ugandan LGBTIQ+s, threatened for being who they are.
#IDAHOBIT2023
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🇪🇺 Here we are,
#EU2024BE
.
Official kickoff of the Belgian Presidency of the
@EUCouncil
with 🇧🇪 Prime Minister
@alexanderdecroo
& Foreign Minister
@hadjalahbib
, starting on January 1st, 2024.
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🇪🇺🎂 Last week, we celebrated 10 years (😱) of graduation at the
@collegeofeurope
with my fellows from the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Promotion & with Rector
@FedericaMog
.
4 jobs, 3 kids, 2 expatriations later - but still one and only 'Esprit de Bruges' ! 🍾 Cheers to many more !
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🕛 Midnight. European Council over. Almost "early".
Crazy week: 4 Councils, 5 Corepers and 2 Summits in 4 days.
Now bedtime, before the kids wake up 😅
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Happy new year, happy 2024 ! 🥳
🇧🇪🇪🇺 The Belgian Presidency of the
@EUCouncil
is now officially on. Here we go for 6 months of intense work in the service of Europe and its citizens. Six months to protect, strengthen and prepare.
Au travail, aan de slag ! 💪
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🇪🇺🇺🇦 Spending this Sunday with Belgian State Secretary
@SammyMahdi
for an emergency meeting of
#EU
asylum ministers, to coordinate humanitarian support to
#Ukraine
& refugees hosting.
#StandWithUkraine
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🚴♂️ 👮♂️ Wonderful initiative from
@KidicalMassBru
supported by the
#Brussels
’ Biking Police Team to bring our kids in the safest and healthiest possible way to school !
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🇪🇺🇧🇪 Lovely evening
@BelgiumEU
for this first edition of our
#EU
Correspondents’ Cocktail, with my brother in arms
@timmermansniels
!
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After a fantastic summer break, it had to happen: back to work, for my fourth (and last) year as spokesperson of the 🇧🇪 PermRep.
A year that will be full of novelties with a new Commission, a new Parliament, new Belgian governments, new Ambassadors... But same spirit 🤩 !
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🇪🇺 Happy
#EuropeDay2021
- for the last time from
#Kampala
🥲!
🇧🇪🇪🇺 In a few days, I will leave
#Uganda
and have the great honour and pride to join the team of the Permanent Representation of
#Belgium
to the
#EuropeanUnion
... A very exciting challenge ahead 🤩
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Happy National Day to my fellow citizens, and to anyone embracing the Belgian spirit & openness 🇧🇪🇧🇪🇧🇪🇪🇺
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“Hang on, it’s almost over” 💪🏽 is probably the sentence most heard lately by the teams of the Belgian presidency
#EU2024BE
🇧🇪🇪🇺
Reality is: 55 days to go, and 31 councils to go ! 😅🥵
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🇧🇪🇺🇬 A friend of
#Uganda
!
@alexanderdecroo
is the new Prime Minister of
#Belgium
. Until yesterday, he was a.o. Minister for Development Cooperation. In 2017, he visited
#Uganda
and
#SouthSudan
.
📸 Here, the Belgian Prime Minister on
#Gulu
airstrip.
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👋🇺🇬 I will be leaving
#Uganda
in 10 days... A final opportunity to share (in a personal capacity) some thoughts, memories and experiences from this fascinating country and on some topics close to my heart. Stay tuned !
#LeavingUganda
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#Uganda
is spared from mass
#tourism
and relies on quality, conviviality and
#ecotourism
. We found fantastic places to sleep and eat everywhere we went.
🇧🇪🇺🇬 With
#BrusselsAirlines
, many lodge owners & tour operators,
#Belgium
is an important actor in this vital economic sector
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Now that the official announcement has been mode, now that the logo has been made public, it's time to dig deeper on what really matters: the programme of the Belgian Presidency of the
@EUCouncil
.
🧐 Read it here. Questions? Shoot!
#EU2024BE
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Portrait par
@lalibrebe
🙂
Les hommes et femmes de la présidence belge: le duo de porte-paroles Alexandre Brecx et Niels Timmermans
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To kickstart the Belgian presidency
@EU2024BE
, the press team organises a press trip to Belgium that started with a giant political speed-dating:
➖ 70 EU press correspondents
➖ 20 Belgian ministers
➖ 3 rounds of interview
(& months of preps 😉)
Nice challenge 😅, nice result!
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I just swore fidelity to the King - now officially a Belgian diplomat with
@BelgiumMFA
, serving in
#Uganda
till 2022! Thanks
@BelgiumInUganda
😊
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🇧🇪🇪🇺 Theodora Gentzis,
#Belgium
’s Director General for European Affairs
@BelgiumDGE
, is in the top-3 of "influencers who are most effectively setting the agenda in politics, public policy and advocacy in Brussels", as displayed today by
@POLITICOEurope
! 👏🏽👏🏽
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☕️ Happy
#InternationalCoffeeDay
!
Two rules for the perfect coffee moment:
🇺🇬 Coffee beans from
#Uganda
🍫 Accompanied by Belgian chocolate… What else? 😉
❓And you, how do you like your
#coffee
?
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Ready for 3 hours online, for the first meeting with
#Belgium
as chair of the
#Education
Development Partners in
#Uganda
!
#SDG4
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One of the perks of
#homeworking
in
#Brussels
: walking breaks along the much underrated Woluwe river, covered in frost 🤍
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A timely unashamed Belgian diplomat’s joke 🐣 🙈
A former 🇧🇪 Prime minister, Paul-Henri Spaak was the first President of the European Parliament (Common Assembly) and the second Secretary General of
#NATO
, which celebrates tomorrow its 75th birthday.
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Welcome to our three new staff members at the Embassy of
#Belgium
in
#Uganda
!! We look forward to using their smurfing diplomatic skills to support our daily work 😉
🇧🇪 🇺🇬
#SharingMoreThanColours
#BeInUG
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🇧🇪 Belgium. Embracing openness.
Prime Minister
@alexanderdecroo
launches the new International branding campaign of
#Belgium
.
💬 “this is a declaration of our commitment to innovation, partnership and creativity”
#EmbracingOpenness
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Today welcoming the 🇪🇺
@EUDiploAcademy
at the 🇧🇪 Permanent Representation today with the Director of the programme and Rector of the
@collegeofeurope
@FedericaMog
Amb.
@PCartuyvels
introduces the group to the specificities of the Belgian federal state and the work of
#COREPERI
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🇪🇺🇺🇦 Historic moment, as the President of the European Council
@CharlesMichel
and the 27 European leaders welcome the President of
#Ukraine
@ZelenskyyUa
in
#Brussels
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🇪🇺🇱🇺 Direction
#Luxembourg
for this week’s Foreign Affairs Council
#FAC
& General Affairs Council
#GAC
, in good (and timely) company with
@CarolineGruyter
📖
(with stunning Belgian landscapes 💚)
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#LeavingUganda
1/10 |
#Kampala
was my first diplomatic posting. Since day 1, I felt wholeheartedly welcomed at the Embassy. I was privileged to join such a dream team and grow into such a professional environment.
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🌜 Moonlight sonata in
#Brussels
.
Bright night ahead of the special 🇪🇺 European Council of tomorrow!
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👨🎓🇪🇺 Back to my Alma Mater
@collegeofeurope
for the opening ceremony of the academic year, under the patronage of Eliane Vogel-Polsky.
Beautiful speech from Rector
@FedericaMog
on equal opportunities, fighting for changes, and call to remember the Founding Mothers of
#Europe
too
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🇺🇬
#UgandanLife
Another beautiful weekend out of
#Kampala
, in
#MurchisonFalls
National Park.
#Uganda
#PearlofAfrica
#MFNP
#VisitUganda
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In
#diplomacy
, summer time also means goodbye times 🥲👋🏽
Tonight we thanked Wouter, Fanny, Aurélie, Julien, Marie, Jean-Michel, Benedikt, Elea & Marieke for their work, and wished them the best in their future assignments, in
#Brussels
and across the world 🌍!
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🇪🇺🇧🇪 Starting the week at the
#EU
Foreign Affairs Council, with 🇧🇪 Minister
@hadjalahbib
:
🌍 Africa’s Great Lakes Region
🇺🇦 Russian aggression against
#Ukraine
🇦🇫
#Afghanistan
🇲🇩
#Moldova
🌡️⚡️
#climate
&
#energy
diplomacy
🇮🇷
#Iran
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Scratched my bike and almost got hit by a car this morning because of this ⬇️
It’s high time to get a decent “lane” connecting Place Jean Rey and Rue Belliard, this is really dangerous for such a crowded place.
@MobirisFr
@zpz_polbru
@EU_CoR
@EU_EESC
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📰 ☕️ A nice way to start the day with
@POLITICOEurope
’s
@JamilAnderlini
and
@MrSamWilkin
discussing the latest media trends in the
#brusselsbubble
.
Very timely exchange, a few months before the 🇧🇪 Belgian Presidency of the
@EUCouncil
& the
#EU
elections in 2024.
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💚 This beautiful
#nature
and
#wildlife
are however suffering more and more the consequences of
#climatechange
,
#environment
degradation, demographic/human pressure, encroachment. It’s our duty as global citizens & governments to protect it & ensure its sustainable
#conservation
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What better Friday evening scenario could you imagine 😅? Sliding into the 11th hour of trilogue negotiations on the reform of the EU economic and fiscal governance rules
#EGR
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Huge thanks to the dozens of people from
#maintain
@dimitristrobbe
, Bruxelles Propreté, the city & the region I saw this morning working quietly and relentlessly to clean the mess and give a bright new skin to
#Brussels
! Heroes !
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📊📈 Ready for the
#ECOFIN
and
#Eurogroup
in
#Luxembourg
! Thanks to my assistant for the strong macro-economic analysis and the brilliant charts and figures. Economic Governance Review is much clearer now!
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Yesterday was my last meeting as chair of the working group on
#Democracy
and
#HumanRights
in
#Uganda
, a truly rewarding experience for me & the Embassy of
#Belgium
.
Thanks to all the 🇺🇬 partners and brilliant colleagues from 🇺🇳 🇩🇪 🇦🇺 🇨🇦 🇰🇷 🇩🇰 🇺🇸 🇫🇷 🇮🇪 🇮🇸 🇯🇵 🇳🇱 🇬🇧 🇸🇪 🇪🇺 🇳🇴 🇦🇹 !
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💼 Back to work
@BelgiumEU
🇪🇺🇧🇪 !
(OK it’s been 2 weeks already but I was trying to hide a bit longer 🫣)
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🎒 New year, new bag ! Is there a better (hipsterer) way to start the 🇸🇪 Presidency of the
@EUCouncil
?
@sweden2023eu
#EU2023SE
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🇪🇺 From
#Strasbourg
to
#Brussels
, the Permanent Representation of
#Belgium
to the
#EU
follows live the State of the European Union
#SOTEU
, the annual speech given by the President of the European Commission to the European Parliament.
👀
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#BehindTheScenes
| Team
#Belgium
at work during the General Affairs Council this morning
@EUCouncil
🇧🇪🇪🇺
📸 Deputy Prime Minister
@Sophie_Wilmes
surrounded by Permanent Representative Ambassador
@Willem_vdVoorde
and her political advisor
@ChdeNijs
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🎧 « Les accords qui ont changé le monde » : le fascinant récit des négociations qui ont vu l’aboutissement du plan de relance européen, racontées de l’intérieur par 🇱🇺
@Xavier_Bettel
& 🇫🇷
@CBeaune
- avec 🇪🇺
@CharlesMichel
sur
@franceculture
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Happy
#AfricaDay
to all Africans - with a special extra thought to all our partners in
#Uganda
🇺🇬 and in
#SouthSudan
🇸🇸 !
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2 days in 1 is the new normal during a presidency. After 9 hours in
#coreper
during the day (without seeing the daylight), the mystifying ceremony of the
#trilogue
starts at nightfall, until…
Sleeping? Ask my buddy
@timmermansniels
about it 😅
#EU2024BE
: 116 days to go
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Another bright day for the Belgian presidency, that started this morning with a visit of King Philippe and Queen Mathilde of the Belgians to the College of EU Commissioners, recognising the critical role of the
@EU_Commission
.
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Nice evening with our colleagues spokespersons from the various 🇪🇺 institutions and Permanent Representations, to introduce the upcoming Belgian Presidency of the
@EUCouncil
and present our wonderful Press&Comms team.
Are you ready for
#EU2024BE
? 🤩
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#LeavingUganda
6/10 | Working for the Embassy of
#Belgium
in
#Uganda
, it’s also being part of a wider
#TeamBelgium
and
#TeamEurope
spirit
🇧🇪 “Unity makes strength”, says the Belgian motto
🇪🇺 “United in Diversity”, says the European one
And it’s certainly valid in
#Kampala
! ⤵️
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#LeavingUganda
8/10 | In 2019, the Embassy of
#Belgium
in
#Uganda
held the presidency of the
#Democracy
and
#HumanRights
Work Group.
With my colleague
@FredLavis
, we had the privilege to co-chair this group and to meet many Human Rights professionals, activists and defenders ⤵️
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Glad to finally meet Benjamin Robinet, author of an academic book about
#Belgium
’s Permanent Representation to the
#EuropeanUnion
, and a fellow alumnus from both UCLouvain and the College of Europe !
📖 A very welcome reading to start my mission as spokesperson
@BelgiumEU
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🇪🇺📰 Official opening of the European Newsroom
#enr
in
#Brussels
, a joint collaboration between 18 European News Agency, located in the offices of
@BelgaNewsAgency
to “keep the facts high”. What could be more important today?
Wish them full success ! 💪🏽
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5⃣ days of Belgian presidency to go !
And what a day… After the General Affairs Council this morning, historic moment here in Luxembourg as we have officially started the EU accession talks with Ukraine 🇺🇦 and Moldova 🇲🇩
#EU2024BE
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Start of the joint voting session with the
@EUCouncil
and the
@Europarl_EN
to select the seat of the future Anti-Money Laundering Authority (
#AMLA
).
Ambassador
@Willem_vdVoorde
and MEP
@itinagli
co-chair the meeting.
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Such a pleasure to meet my friend
@Hassan_shire
and his team from
@DefendDefenders
in sunny
#Brussels
today!
Good memories from my time in
#Kampala
🇺🇬 and always very insightful exchanges 🙂
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Back to the Council of the
#EU
🇪🇺, this morning for the meeting of the 27 Ministers in charge of
#development
cooperation.
Minister
@MeryameKitir
represents
#Belgium
🇧🇪
💛 Special topic to my heart after working on these topics the past 3 years in
#Uganda
&
#SouthSudan
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#BehindTheScenes
of the🇧🇪 press briefing ahead of the 🇪🇺 European Summit
#EUCO
. It’s good to have the 4th power physically back 😊
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🇧🇪🇪🇺 Lovely ‘Belgians in the Bubble’ evening tonight at the PermRep with some Belgian EU civil servants, welcomed by Amb.
@Willem_vdVoorde
and the Belgian member of the EU Court of Auditors Annemie Turtelboom
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🇺🇬🇪🇺 All set to launch the first ever
#Uganda
-
#EU
Business Forum!
#Belgium
is proud to be part of this timely forum to discuss sustainable partnerships between Uganda and the European Union (& its 27 member states!):
💶 Investments
♻️ Green Deals
💡 Innovation
#UgandaEUBF2020
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4⃣ days of Belgian presidency to go !
Today, 35th and final COREPER II meeting chaired by 🇧🇪 Ambassador
@Willem_vdVoorde
.
Hundreds of hours exchanging, negotiating, and advancing the 🇪🇺 project and legislations under this inspiring multicoloured ceiling.
#EU2024BE
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End of the
#lockdown
in
#Uganda
.
River Nile.
Pure beauty.
Hope the world will be allowed to come back soon to
#VisitUganda
(Couldn’t resist another one...)
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❄️ Good morning from
#Brussels
! Today 🇪🇺 Foreign Affairs Council
#FAC
with 🇧🇪 Minister
@hadjalahbib
to discuss the situation in
#Ukraine
🇺🇦,
#Iran
🇮🇷,
#Palestine
🇵🇸, in the Sahel and West Africa.
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