On 24 September, the Chaplain-President attended a dinner at the Maison du Cygne in Brussels offered by Madame Maïté De Rue and Madame Eline Roofthooft of the Belgian Ministry of Justice, to which the chefs de culte et de conviction in Belgium were invited alongside senior civil servants from across the EU and the UK who work in the area of State relations with religious and philosophical groups. Conversations were rich and varied about how different European countries navigate formal relations with churches, synagogues, mosques, temples and meeting-houses. Jack was able to defend the solutions adopted in Belgian law as offering the nation religious and philosophical groups which related well together and acted for the public good.