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Belgium among most exposed to Brexit fallout

A weaker outlook for the external sector on the back of the UK’s Brexit vote will hit Belgium’s open economy harder than most. And with consumers looking poorly placed to take up the slack, the economy will struggle to grow by much more than 1% this year or next.

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