The Egmont Palace is a large mansion at the Wolstraat/Rue aux Laines in Brussels, Belgium. It was built in 1560, and has known numerous changes.
After the first World War the owner, the German Arenberg family, was forced to sell the building to the Belgian state, after which it was renamed Egmont Palace.
Today, it is being used for receptions and meetings by the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
In 1977, the Egmont pact on the Belgian state reform was signed in the Egmont Palace by the government Tindemans II.
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Much of the content of this article comes from the equivalent Dutch-language wikipedia article (retrieved 7 August, 2006).