Belgium–Luxembourg relations Belgium–Luxembourg relations Belgium–Luxembourg relations are the bilateral relations between the Kingdom of Belgium and Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. Both countries have a history of close cooperation, notably within the Belgium–Luxembourg Economic Union, Benelux and within the European Union. Belgium has an embassy in Luxembourg and Luxembourg has an embassy in Brussels. The Belgian ambassador to Luxembourg is Thomas Antoine. The Luxembourg ambassador to Belgium is Jean-Jacques Welfring. Belgium and Luxembourg share a land border. On the Belgian side of the border, nearly all of it is with the province of Luxembourg; a small part in the north is with the
Carnival in the Netherlands The Rhenish carnaval in the Netherlands is a derivative of the Cologne carnaval. The Burgundian carnaval originated from the traditional eating feasts during which people would ridicule one another during the carnaval in the Southern Netherlands (nowadays Belgium, Luxembourg and the Dutch Provinces North Brabant and Limburg), especially in the Duchy of Brabant. Carnaval is not only a feast of eating and drinking, but also serves as social role reversal feast which allows people to behave outside the usual acceptable social norm. People will dress up as a character, much as seen during the eve of the Christian feast of