Setting up in a new country, on a far away continent can be quite intimidating, apart even from having to worry about whether or not you will be able to find the skills your company is looking for on the spot.

Brussels can offer you a highly educated, highly motivated and productive workforce, with excellent linguistic skills too.

Belgium is the point where Anglo-Saxon, Latin and Germanic cultures meet. It is centrally located, with excellent connections via road, air and sea.Flying times to most major European centres are typically less than 2 hours. High-speed trains connect Brussels to Amsterdam, London, Cologne and Paris. This makes business travel easy.
Belgium is, furthermore, at the heart of European decision making, hosting the headquarters for both theEuropean Union and NATO.
Here is another reason to consider Brussels as your EMEA headquarters: the majority of all the spending power in the entire European continent is found within a radius of 1000 km (about 620 miles) around Brussels. Many companies from far beyond the boundaries of the EU have come to Brussels to establish their European headquarters
Coca-Cola, UPS, Toyota, Daimler Chrysler, Sony IT, Cisco, IBM, Lucent, Hewlett Packard, Ericsson, Exxon Chemical, Ascom, and SWIFT are among the 2,200 companies currently enjoying the advantages the Brussels Capital Region has to
offer.