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What Belgium is talking about

Measured attention, not opinion polls: what people search for (Google Trends), what they read (Wikipedia page views) and what the news covers and how (GDELT, every 15 minutes). For what people think, see the opinion surveys.

Today

Searching

Google Trends BE · 15 Nov 2026
  1. ufc new 2k+
  2. classement équipe d'algérie de football – équipe du togo de football new 2k+
  3. portugal national football team vs denmark national football team standings new 2k+
  4. star academy 500+
  5. manifestation 500+
  6. nora monsecour new 200+
  7. françois pirette new 200+
  8. william boeva 200+
  9. hockey sur glace new 100+
  10. the body netflix new 100+
  11. honger new 100+
  12. bart de wever jour de congé 100+
  13. miss france 2027 new 100+
  14. portugal fc 100+

In the news

GDELT · outlets in Belgium · last 2 days
  • Leader 88
  • General health 66
  • Msm 63
  • Education 61
  • General government 58
  • Manmade disaster implied 57
  • Medical 56
  • Affect 46
  • Armedconflict 45
  • Arrest 44
  • Trial 41
  • Protest 41

People

Romelu Lukaku · Issa Tchiroma · Pairi Daiza · Maxim Timchenko · Franois Desquesnes · Nicolas Raskin · Chantal Biya · Donald Trump · Atlantic Ocean · Calcio Mercato · Laurent Nunez · Alexandre Teklak

Organisations

United States · White House · Republican Party · Union European · Cc Department · Reuters · Spacex · Administration Central · A Court · National Treasure · A Office · It Center

"new" = first day in the trending list; "N days" = trending on N of the last 14 days. Traffic is Google's rounded search-volume band. GDELT themes are machine-tagged from articles published by outlets in the country (in any language); people and organisations are extracted automatically and can be noisy.

Rising

New in the lists today.

  • Isolde Van den Eynde
  • Hanne Maudens
  • Nathan Ngoy
  • Colette Kress
  • Andrei Lugovski
  • Jensen Huang
  • Attentats du 13 novembre 2015 en France
  • The Five-Star Weekend (TV series)

Evergreen

In the lists on most recent days (searches: 5+ of 14, pages: 10+ of 30).

  • Bruine Mehdi 10d

Topics in the news · Belgium

Share of news by topic

% of articles from outlets in this country, per day (GDELT GKG)

Topics are keyword groups over GDELT's GKG themes; an article can be in several. Collection started in Oct 2026, so the history fills up from there.

Source: The GDELT Project updated 1 min ago

This week vs the world

% of articles, last 7 days
TopicHereAll countriesMore
Crime20.7%22.9%
War & conflict15.8%20.3%less here
Jobs10.6%12.8%Jobs & cost of living →
Energy10.3%11.0%Energy →
Elections9.4%9.5%Politics →
Protest9.2%7.7%Politics →
Migration3.5%3.6%Population & migration →
Climate2.6%1.8%more hereEnergy →
Cost of living2.0%2.4%Economy →
AI1.9%2.5%less here
Housing1.8%2.0%Economy →
Health0.7%1.1%less herePopulation & migration →
Robotics0.1%0.1%Robotics →
Trade0.1%0.2%less hereEconomy →
Self-driving0.0%0.0%more hereSelf-driving →
Source: The GDELT Project · to 14 Nov 2026

Around the world

Elections: share of the news, last 7 days

By the country of the outlet, not of the story. Tone is GDELT's average document tone (negative = more negative words). Countries with fewer than 50 (tone) or 200 (topic) articles in the week are left grey. Click a covered country to open its trends.

Source: The GDELT Project

Elections across countries

% of each country's news articles per day (GDELT GKG)
Source: The GDELT Project updated 1 min ago

Everywhere vs local

Read everywhere

Wikipedia articles in the top lists of 3+ countries on the latest day.

  1. Jensen Huang11 countries · 627.7k views
  2. Colette Kress9 countries · 199.7k views
  3. Nvidia8 countries · 213.4k views
  4. Alice Huang (executive)7 countries · 126.4k views
  5. Avril Lavigne6 countries · 109.9k views
  6. Russell Brand5 countries · 93.8k views
  7. Lisa Su4 countries · 57.9k views
  8. Deaths in 20263 countries · 97.7k views
  9. Mauricio Pochettino3 countries · 70.2k views
  10. David Walliams3 countries · 56k views
  11. Ebenezer (2026 film)3 countries · 55.5k views
  12. The Body (TV series)3 countries · 43.2k views
  13. Archive of Our Own3 countries · 39.3k views
  14. Grand Theft Auto VI3 countries · 26.8k views
  15. UEFA Nations League3 countries · 24.2k views
  16. Wild Horse Nine3 countries · 16.3k views

Only here

Top pages in Belgium that no other tracked country has in its list.

  1. Flore Pensaert3.5k views
  2. Isolde Van den Eynde2.7k views
  3. Hanne Maudens2.5k views
  4. Nathan Ngoy2.1k views
  5. Andrei Lugovski1.9k views
  6. Hugo Cuypers1.7k views
  7. The Five-Star Weekend (TV series)1.6k views
  8. Peter Thyssen1.5k views
  9. Iris Van Straten1.4k views

Related

Sources: Source: Google Trends (hourly per country, every 3 h per region) · Source: Wikimedia Foundation pageviews API (daily top lists; language editions for the world view) · Source: The GDELT Project (15 min) · Source: Hacker News via the Algolia HN Search API. Not included: Reddit and YouTube (their APIs need keys), X (no open API), China's Google Trends and per-country Wikipedia lists (not published).

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