On the picture Jordan’s Queen Rania talks to Belgium’s Prime Minister.
By Baron Henri Estramant.
After visiting Downing Street and Britain’s Premier David Cameron on Friday, 8 January 2016, to discuss the Syrian refugee crisis, Queen Rania of Jordan continued her whirlwind tour of Europe touching down in Brussels on Tuesday, 12 January 2016.
The Jordanian royal (45), first met with the country’s Prime Minister Charles Michel before heading to the Royal Palace for an audience with Queen Mathilde of the Belgians. In the afternoon, Rania made her way to EU meetings at the European Commission headquarters.
There she met with Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission, Federica Mogherini, High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the EC as well as Commissioner Johannes Hahn, Member of the EC in charge of European Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations.
After Brussels, Queen Rania al-Abdullah travelled to Oslo wherein she was received by the Royal Couple as well as the Crown Princely Couple of Norway and the Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg.
Background for all visits and meetings in the three countries is the upcoming Syria Donor’s Conference, which shall take place on 4 February in London, and is being financially and logistically organised by the UK, Norway, Germany and Kuwait.
Queen Rania hopes to receive strong economic aid for Jordan which has welcomed about a million refugees from Syria, Iraq, Palestine and even Afghanistan notwithstanding the limited resources of the Hashemite Kingdom which are being forced to the limit.
