East Belgium - economic space with a future
Even today, the three cities - Eupen, Malmedy and Sankt Vith – form East Belgium's economic poles. Smaller, but no less interesting centers - mostly based on certain local particularities - have also developed.But East Belgium cannot be seen as one interconnected or amalgamated industrial area. With the natural barrier of the “High Venn“, a high moor landscape, East Belgium is in effect divided into two areas (Eupen and Malmedy-St. Vith), which landscapes, economies, and cultures are extremely different from one another.
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In these three areas, you will find work centers focusing on extremely different tasks and which identify East Belgium as having a variety of industries.
In addition, East Belgium's affiliation with the German language community of Belgium, with the Euregio Maas-Rhein, and with the major region of Saar-Lor-Lux, is another significant component of its variety, the cultural as well as the economic variety.
It is this variety, which opens East Belgium's door to the future, to a global economic market - dynamic, multicultural, efficient, and productive!
East Belgium (with its German language community) is a member of two “Euregions“!
> Euregio Maas-Rhein, encompassing East Belgium to the north
> Major region Saar-Lor-Wallonia-DLC to the south
> East Belgium
> The German-speaking Community
> Cities & Communities
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