Relationship dossier
Belgium
Ireland
Relationship assessment
Belgium and Ireland maintain cooperative ties, including bilateral economic agreements.
Belgium toward Ireland
+20Belgium has entered bilateral arrangements with Ireland addressing taxation and investment, providing formal frameworks for economic relations.
Ireland toward Belgium
+20Ireland has entered bilateral arrangements with Belgium addressing taxation and investment, providing formal frameworks for economic relations.
Overall relationship
+20The relationship has a cooperative economic foundation through bilateral tax and investment arrangements, alongside participation in shared EU institutions. The known bilateral arrangements support a positive assessment, while their practical scope and the wider pattern of direct cooperation remain unclear.
How to read these scores
Scores are rough judgments, not objective measurements or current verification. Directional scores describe government policy and conduct, not public opinion. The overall score is an independent estimate, never an average.
- −100
- Extreme sustained hostility
- −50
- Substantially adversarial
- 0
- Mixed or neutral, supported by knowledge
- +50
- Substantially cooperative
- +100
- Exceptionally close sustained partnership
“Not assessed” means there is no recorded score. Pair existence makes no claim about diplomatic recognition or established relations.
Relationship context
Overview
Belgium and Ireland have a cooperative bilateral relationship, including agreements that provide frameworks for tax and investment matters. Their EU membership also places them in a shared institutional setting, though the breadth of direct bilateral cooperation is less clear.
Key developments
Belgium and Ireland concluded a bilateral convention on taxation.
Belgium and Ireland established a bilateral investment framework.
Major uncertainties
- The scope and practical implementation of bilateral tax and investment arrangements are unclear.
- Details of recent direct government cooperation are limited.