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76 posts
Fix My State
Jon Worth's Euroblog 1 Day, 20 Hours, 19 Minutes ago
Traffic light stuck on amber. For 6 days solid*. And no-one has done a thing. A STIB tram passes this light every 10 minutes – it’s at the southern end of Chaussée de Charleroi. At least one police vehicle will...
Belgian EU Presidency will steer six major projects
CTA Brussels Weblog 5 Days, 22 Hours, 22 Minutes ago
The Treaty of Lisbon, the EU 2020 strategy, climate issues, the Stockholm programme, enlargement and revision of the financial perspectives are the six major European projects identified by the future Belgian Council Presidency, which will start on 1...
Storm in a bowl of waaterzoi
England Expects 3 Weeks, 3 Days, 17 Hours, 21 Minutes ago
Cripes they are all getting a little excited over in Brussels about Nigel Farage's comments yesterday. Now we hear that Yves Leterme, the Belgian PM has demanded in a letter to the President of Parliament that this should not happen again.Meanwhile J...
I don’t want to be rude, but…
Kosmopolito 3 Weeks, 3 Days, 17 Hours, 23 Minutes ago
More youtube fame for Mr Farage but the “non -country” strikes back: http://idontwanttoberude.com/...
The Belgians
kattebel's blog 1 Month, 2 Days, 8 Hours, 25 Minutes ago
Contrary to what my previous post may have alluded you to think, I’m not Dutch. My passport is issued by the quaint, less organised, little country to the South. Home to the brave, Ceasar called it. Sadly we have lost that epithet a long time a...
The Belgian government is asking for help. Please listen to its call
eurosocialist 1 Month, 1 Week, 5 Days, 2 Hours, 4 Minutes ago
Found on Twitter thanks to @Maitea6 Fortunately, some good souls, such as @linotherhino, have already started to reply.
The Belgian office for foreigners who live in Belgium
EU for US 1 Month, 2 Weeks, 1 Day, 18 Hours, 58 Minutes ago
For information about your 'Civil State', including everything from specific details about how someone from your country needs to apply for Belgian citizenship to a VISA, call theService Public Fédéral Etrangères Etat - CivilRue des Petits Carmes,...
Sóbiztos a sóhivatalban
Európában 2 Months, 1 Week, 3 Days, 21 Hours, 57 Minutes ago
Sóbiztosa van Flandriának. Szórósóbiztosa. Vagy sószóróbiztosa. (Mit sütsz kis szűcs, szórósóbiztost/sószóróbiztost sütsz kis szűcs?) Zoutcommissarisnak hívják hollandul. A komiszár azért felel, hogy minden behavazott fontos út...
Belga szürreáliák*
Európában 2 Months, 1 Week, 5 Days, 22 Hours, 48 Minutes ago
Trafipax, a bűvös ármány Biztos meséltem már, hogy városunk, Leuven útjai  - nem csak kifürkészhetetlenek, de - tele vannak tűzdelve trafipaxokkal. Nem ezért szeretjük, de ez van. (Illetve én ezért is szeretem, de nem beszélek más...
Dialogue de sourds entre Flamands et Francophones
Coulisses de Bruxelles (Libération) 2 Months, 3 Weeks, 1 Day, 21 Hours, 5 Minutes ago
Le gouvernement belge, emmené par le néerlandophone Yves Leterme, va devoir trancher une bonne fois pour toutes, cette année, le dossier BHV. Il ne s’agit pas du célèbre magasin de la rive droite parisienne, mais de l’abréviation de « Brux...
De l'effet du changement climatique sur la querelle belge
Coulisses de Bruxelles (Libération) 2 Months, 3 Weeks, 6 Days, 3 Hours, 47 Minutes ago
La montée programmée des océans règlera définitivement le conflit communautaire belge en faisant disparaître la Flandre... Cette carte humoristique est une sorte de réponse du berger francophone à la bergère flamande. Elle circule depuis lon...
La Flandre se rêve indépendante
Coulisses de Bruxelles (Libération) 2 Months, 3 Weeks, 6 Days, 16 Hours, 38 Minutes ago
C’est le dernier lapsus flamand et il rend les Francophones belges tout chose. L’Office du tourisme flamand de New-York a édité un carton d’invitation pour un cocktail qui a eu lieu le 7 décembre dernier orné d’une carte revisitée de...
We’re going on a flat hunt!
The Lobby 3 Months, 1 Week, 2 Days, 13 Hours, 31 Minutes ago
While the debate about whale hunting continues to grab headlines around the EU, it is time to turn our attention to another significant hunting subject which frequently fosters frustration in Brussels: ah yes, flat hunting. The Lobby is currently...
Surviving the bubble – by good food
Europa-Transparent 3 Months, 1 Week, 4 Days, 14 Hours, 49 Minutes ago
The Brussels EU-bubble is hardly to digest. That’s why I would like to recommend today a new book: the first gastronomic guide to Brussels’ EU-quarter: “Brussels’ Eurodistrict Restaurants 2010” written by Hughes Belin a...
Belgare
Henrik-Alexandersson.se 3 Months, 1 Week, 5 Days, 6 Hours, 28 Minutes ago
Belgiens pensionsminister tycks ha slarvat bort 738 miljoner euro.Kvinnan som poserar med honom på bilderna sägs vara hans dotter.(Tipstack: K)...
Sinterklaas på besök
Brysselbloggen 3 Months, 1 Week, 6 Days, 15 Hours, 16 Minutes ago
Nu i helgen har Belgien och Nederländerna firat Sinterklaas. Det är barnens stora dag då de får presenter och godis. På kvällen femte december ställer barnen fram en sko vid öppna spisen (eller alla skor de har som min yngste son gjorde), lä...
Tomten kommer. Och hans torpeder.
Henrik-Alexandersson.se 3 Months, 2 Weeks, 1 Day, 3 Hours, 10 Minutes ago
6 december. Det vill säga julafton i Belgien. I vart fall i den flamländska delen.I dag kommer S:t Nikolaus med presenter till barnen. Han är en småpackad kombination av tomten och något slags biskop. Och han har dragit omkring på barerna här...
Où manger correctement dans « l’Eurodisctrict » de Bruxelles ?
Coulisses de Bruxelles (Libération) 3 Months, 2 Weeks, 3 Days, 10 Hours, 51 Minutes ago
C’est l’un des mystères bruxellois : déjeuner ou diner correctement dans le quartier européen de Bruxelles est une gageure. Tables passables et hors de prix, snacks sinistres et sandwichs infects, troquets sans âmes sont trop souvent la règl...
Belgique : la frite a la frite
Le blog du bureau de Bruxelles (France 2) 3 Months, 2 Weeks, 3 Days, 17 Hours, 9 Minutes ago
Belgique : la frite a la frite - Ma-Tvideo France2 Comment vont les frites belges? La question peut paraître étrange et pourtant les Belges se la sont posée... Et la réponse est : bien,...
Writing for the EU: creativity lost?
Writing for (y)EU 3 Months, 3 Weeks, 1 Day, 18 Hours, 32 Minutes ago
Belgian service providers are like an episode of Prison Break. Every time you think things can’t get worse, they continue surprising you. There, I’ve put it on paper: my own opinion (although probably shared by many expats here in Brussel...
Gender equality in Belgium
EU for US 3 Months, 3 Weeks, 1 Day, 19 Hours, 39 Minutes ago
In the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Index 2009, Belgium ranks well in education levels between men and women. But when we get to economic and political decision-making, Belgium drops to the 60s..."The lack of equality in economic life is...
La Belgique, le pays où le français devient une langue étrangère
Coulisses de Bruxelles (Libération) 3 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days, 9 Hours, 54 Minutes ago
Qui saura, dans le vaste monde, qu’il y a encore plus de 40 % de Belges francophones ? Car, désormais, le visage de la Belgique, à l’extérieur, est clairement néerlandophone, presque tous les postes internationaux étant détenus par des Flam...
Flamingant obstiné, le chrétien-démocrate a été voulu par Paris et Berlin - Van Rompuy, l’anesthésiant local (Jean Quatremer - Libération)
Regards citoyens 3 Months, 4 Weeks, 17 Hours, 52 Minutes ago
Herman Van Rompuy (prononcez « vane rompeuille ») a passé sesdernières vacances à parcourir l’Australie en camping-car. Les photos complaisamment diffusées à la rentrée le montraient en train de pique-niquer en short dans un camping...
Match your skills to your job in Brussels
EU for US 3 Months, 4 Weeks, 1 Day, 18 Hours, 49 Minutes ago
Ex-pat employees in Brussels have a lot of skills and expertise. Many speak two to three languages fluently. Most have at least one Masters degree, frequently two or three. Most importantly, all are motivated individuals working more for passion and...
European Union chooses President
Babel in Brussels 4 Months, 6 Hours, 10 Minutes ago
By Eline Gordts November 20 and Belgium is celebrating like it’s already New Year’s Eve. Yesterday evening, the European heads of state reached an agreement on who will become the European Union’s first permanent president. And yes, the man
Belgian train strike
EU for US 4 Months, 3 Days, 9 Hours, 33 Minutes ago
I left for vacation Thursday 2 weeks ago. The National Railway Company of Belgium held a strike that same day. My seven-hour train ride became a 2 hour bus ride followed by an hour-long train to Paris and an overnight sleeper train to the South of Fr...
Internet price petition by Test Achats
EU for US 4 Months, 4 Days, 8 Hours, 35 Minutes ago
Test-Achats, an advocacy group for consumers in Belgium, is mobilising public opinion to improve the cost of Internet in Belgium. Sign their petition. As they say, each voice counts.The petition: http://www.test-achats.be/internet/internet-trop-cher-...
Conseil européen: Herman Van Rompuy respecte-t-il les valeurs européennes?
Coulisses de Bruxelles (Libération) 4 Months, 5 Days, 22 Hours, 49 Minutes ago
La fierté des francophones belges fait plaisir à voir : depuis que leur Premier ministre Herman Van Rompuy est cité parmi les favoris dans la course à la présidence du Conseil européen des chefs d’État et de gouvernement, on a...
Le belge De Crem veut une réflexion approfondie sur les opérations de l'UE en Somalie
Bruxelles2 (Europe de la Défense) 4 Months, 1 Week, 18 Hours, 28 Minutes ago
Le ministre de la Défense belge, Pieter de Crem, a fait part, jeudi, à quelques journalistes (dont j'étais), de ses doutes sur la mission que projette l'UE pour l'entraînement des soldats somaliens et a plaidé pour une réorientation de la strat...
Packages in Belgium
EU for US 5 Months, 1 Day, 12 Hours, 22 Minutes ago
Community is expressed in many ways.In the USA, community could be found in collected groups. The individuals that “collected” these groups made camps, towns, or villages. They depended upon their community colleagues to ensure these camps, towns...
The Return of Leterme and the arrival of Daerden
The Lobby 8 Months, 4 Days, 14 Hours, 10 Minutes ago
Prime Minister van Rompuy had to endure a cascade of criticism from the opposition after they had learned of the Belgian Federal Government’s reshuffle plans on which agreement was reached last night. Sp.a leader Tobback accused van Rompuy of le...
Allons enfants de la … Belgique!
The Lobby 8 Months, 1 Week, 11 Hours, 20 Minutes ago
So you wanted to celebrate Bastille Day but you missed the annual 14 July military parade on the Champs Elysées in Paris and President Sarkozy forgot to invite you to the select garden party at the Elysée Palace – don’t stress out, you have...
Belgium welcomes the little general
The Lobby 8 Months, 2 Weeks, 15 Hours ago
Followers of the Belgian football team can be forgiven for being in the doldrums recently.  After qualifying for every World Cup from 1982 to 2002 – finishing fourth in 1986 – recent years have seen an alarming slump, during which they have f...
Spanish-Belgian squabble puts EU foreign policy in a poor light
Brussels Blog (Financial Times) 8 Months, 3 Weeks, 1 Day, 16 Hours, 46 Minutes ago
The last time that a dispute between Madrid and Brussels seized the international spotlight was in 1568 - and boy, was it big.  That was when the Spanish rulers of the Low Countries sparked the 80-year-long Dutch Revolt by executing Counts Eg...
What do the Belgian politicians want for and from Europe [evelinedewinter]
Think About It - EU Blog Competition 9 Months, 2 Weeks, 22 Hours, 18 Minutes ago
At the end of April I began my quest. My aim was to interview all the persons who were heading the list of the European Elections and that of every Belgian party with a realistic chance at seats in the Parliament. I contacted Groen! (Flemish green pa...
‘A stronger Flanders in a stronger Europe’ [evelinedewinter]
Think About It - EU Blog Competition 9 Months, 2 Weeks, 4 Days, 16 Hours, 23 Minutes ago
When I interviewed N-VA president Bart De Wever for a totally different project I asked him why he chose to run in Antwerp (regional elections) and not to run for a place in Europe. He answered me that if you could speak of one simplistic story that...
The simple quest for a postage stamp (and what it says about Belgium)
Jon Worth's Euroblog 9 Months, 2 Weeks, 6 Days, 3 Hours, 58 Minutes ago
Today is a bank holiday in Belgium. But for me that means little - I have projects to complete, so I need to work. In addition I urgently need to post a letter to the UK, but I’m out of stamps. Can I manage to find a postage stamp for purchase...
“People at number one” [evelinedewinter]
Think About It - EU Blog Competition 9 Months, 3 Weeks, 5 Days, 19 Hours, 23 Minutes ago
“People at number one” is the slogan of sp.a, the Flemish socialist party. Kathleen Van Brempt is their candidate heading the European list. At the moment Van Brempt is the Flemish minister of Mobility, Social Economics and Equal Opportunities. S...
N-VA: No future for Belgium; Flanders should be an independent EU nation state
Belgian Elections for Europeans 9 Months, 3 Weeks, 6 Days, 29 Minutes ago
Architect Frieda Brepoels, No 1 on the N-VA list for the European elections, positions the party as “the only Flemish European party in Flanders”. They do not see a future for ‘Belgium’, and look enviously at small states in E...
Guest blogging for VRT Flandersnews www.redactie.be
Belgian Elections for Europeans 10 Months, 14 Hours, 28 Minutes ago
For the last 3 weeks before Election Day, 7 June, I am one of three invited guest-bloggers on the VRT / Flanders News / European Elections 09 website. The three “Campaign Watchers” are myself, long-time Belgian resident and British author...
Belgian goverment found way out of crisis
The Belgian government has found a way to get the economy moving. It just arrived in my mailbox. It came in the electricity bill from Electrabel. Usually I pay around 40 euro, but this time the bill was 7 euro. I looked closer. As it turns out, I got...
Rail noise v. railway competitiveness: The Belgian perspective
Julien Frisch 10 Months, 2 Weeks, 5 Days, 10 Hours, 41 Minutes ago
Just a little piece of high-level EU politics:"While Belgium recognises that measures should be taken to reduce the adverse effects of railwaynoise at source, it nevertheless insists that such measures must not jeopardise the competitiveness of the r...
A Review of the State of Government and citizenship in Belgium (and a little about the EU)
EU for US 10 Months, 4 Weeks, 1 Day, 20 Hours, 47 Minutes ago
For every citizen (and employee) in Belgium, there are four governments.Individuals can belong to all four, or they can belong to one, two, or three. In Belgium, voting in each government election is not a civic right but a civic obligation. Belgian...
How to go to school in Belgium and how to have your employer pay (nothing) for it
EU for US 11 Months, 1 Week, 10 Hours, 13 Minutes ago
I promised this post some time ago. However, the document pertaining to this piece of employment legislation is 44 pages of French or Dutch, and I am still struggling to read Le Match. But here goes:Here is the overview as best I can deduce:Le congé...
L'Etat de droit selon la Flandre (suite)
Coulisses de Bruxelles (Libération) 11 Months, 2 Weeks, 5 Days, 23 Hours, 49 Minutes ago
Quinze communes flamandes ont annoncé qu’elles n’organiseraient pas les élections européennes afin de protester contre l’absence de scission de l’arrondissement électoral et judiciaire bilingue de Bruxelles-Hal-Vilvorde (BHV). En pratique...
First Polish expat running for the European Parliament
Poland in the EU - Dominika Pszczolkowska (Gazeta Wyborcza) 11 Months, 4 Weeks, 1 Day, 22 Hours, 53 Minutes ago
A Pole will be running for the European Parliament from Belgium. A first in the history of Poland's elections to the EP. The candidate is 26-year old Bartosz Lech and he will be 4th on the Ecolo (Greens) list in French-speaking Belgium. The Greens h...
Belgian organisational skills.
Gary Cartwright 1 Year, 3 Days, 1 Hour, 43 Minutes ago
Last night I joined a couple of friends for a drink at a bar near to the European Parliament. It was a nice evening, so we were sat outside. It had already been a great evening for me insofar as I had discovered that a Hungarian aquaintance had acted...
Don’t use the Belgian post…
Gary Cartwright 1 Year, 5 Days, 18 Hours, 19 Minutes ago
I’m not very enthusiastic about tax. I personally think it morally questionable that I should have my hard earned income taken away from me and used in ways I strongly disapprove of. In my part of London, only 20% of households pay council tax,...
De Staandard compares EU with Latvian poems
Kosmopolito 1 Year, 2 Weeks, 3 Days, 11 Hours, 40 Minutes ago
A short episode from today’s DNA conference in Brussels which was an interesting event mixing new web start-ups and established media companies. At a panel with the ‘traditional’ media the question came up whether established media...
Belgium to Boycott: Never cut or hook before lunch
Brussels Blog (Financial Times) 1 Year, 2 Weeks, 3 Days, 19 Hours, 30 Minutes ago
Back in November I drew attention to the path-breaking research of the genealogists who had discovered that Barack Obama was 1 per cent Belgian. Now it seems Belgium’s contribution to the good of the world goes even further than that. Two acade...
Excessive Pricing on the Judgments Reprints Market?
The Antitrust Hotch Potch 1 Year, 3 Weeks, 5 Days, 23 Hours, 34 Minutes ago
In Belgium, not all judgments are published and those published are often released a long time after their adoption. Obviously, this makes the job of legal scholars very painful. To remedy this issue, the registrars of the Courts offer reprints...
How to enter Belgium, How to apply for a work VISA in Belgium
EU for US 1 Year, 1 Month, 1 Day, 15 Hours, 42 Minutes ago
We have the World Trade Organisation to work for the free trade of products in the free market. But no organisation facilitates hiring non-EU citizens within the EU.That’s why I’m here.First, ENTER Belgium. Legally.If you are currently located ou...
How to get a Belgian work permit in Brussels part two
EU for US 1 Year, 1 Month, 2 Weeks, 6 Days, 12 Hours, 12 Minutes ago
You, like me, may have a perverse need to do things that are difficult. Like work in Belgium-legally. (Illegal work is easier, which is why its more popular.)Here’s how to start, once you are a legal alien already residing in Belgium. (If you are n...
More on the Belgian Defense Minister
Bente Kalsnes’ blog 1 Year, 3 Months, 2 Weeks, 1 Day, 11 Hours, 51 Minutes ago
Bruno Waterfield in the Daily Telegraph (who also has a blog - thanks for the link, Bruno) has  written an article about the incredible story of the drinking Belgian Defense minister Pieter de Crem on a cancelled meeting in New York and the blogging...
Pieter Frans Norbert Jozef Raymond De Crem in a spot of bother
Jon Worth's Euroblog 1 Year, 3 Months, 2 Weeks, 4 Days, 17 Hours, 9 Minutes ago
So the Belgian Minister of Defense wants to go an get pissed in New York at the expense of the state, travelling there for a meeting that was not actually due to happen. As far as I’m concerned that’s not acceptable behaviour. Problem for...
Money, money, money
Bente Kalsnes’ blog 1 Year, 5 Months, 2 Weeks, 2 Days, 12 Hours, 14 Minutes ago
The financial crisis hit Belgium hard this week, and our local bank Fortis had to go down on it’s knees and beg for money from the governments of Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. The bank is now partially nationalised. My father took th...
Vlaams Belang in de shit
EU.blog.nl 1 Year, 5 Months, 2 Weeks, 5 Days, 22 Hours, 22 Minutes ago
Marie-Rose Morel wil de tweede plaats op de lijst van het Vlaams Belang voor de Europese verkiezingen. Na haar uitval aan het adres van ...
Belgique : nouvelles du front
Coulisses de Bruxelles (Libération) 1 Year, 6 Months, 2 Weeks, 3 Days, 56 Minutes ago
La crise belge n’a pas évolué d’un iota durant l’été. Tout le monde s’attend à ce qu’elle rebondisse dans les prochains jours, la Flandre n’ayant pas mis son mouchoir sur ses revendications autonomistes, voire indépendantistes, bien...
Belgian customer ’service’
Jon Worth's Euroblog 1 Year, 7 Months, 1 Week, 5 Days, 21 Hours, 57 Minutes ago
I’ve been going back and forth between the UK and Belgium for the last 10 months, and due to a change in circumstances I’m finally getting all the bureaucracy in order so as to stay in Belgium on a more permanent basis. First of all the f...
Why do some Belgians want to become French?
Certain ideas of Europe (Economist) 1 Year, 7 Months, 3 Weeks, 16 Hours, 31 Minutes ago
Is it just for the money?
Europäisch, föderal, unkaputtbar
Planet in Progress (Die Zeit) 1 Year, 7 Months, 4 Weeks, 2 Hours, 28 Minutes ago
Warum Belgien auch ohne Regierung funktioniert Harry, der englische Killer mit Sinn für das alte Europa, steht hoch auf dem gotischen Glockenturm und schaut versunken hinunter auf den märchenhaften Marktplatz von Brügge. „Bloß schade, dass das...
Political stalemate in Belgium
Babelblogs reviews 1 Year, 8 Months, 16 Hours, 32 Minutes ago
After Belgian king Albert II rejected the prime minister’s offer of resignation on 17 July, Yves Leterme will have to find new ways to guide Belgium through its identity crisis. The latest news from the EU in Brussels...
Le pays des Belges
Stanley Crossick 1 Year, 8 Months, 2 Days, 15 Hours, 3 Minutes ago
EU politics, I find easier to understand than Belgian politics, which is one reason why this is my first post on this subject.  However, the ongoing failure of the inter-communal negotiations, when the country has to cope with serious economic prob...
Liebes Belgien,
Planet in Progress (Die Zeit) 1 Year, 8 Months, 3 Days, 13 Hours, 54 Minutes ago
(ein offener Brief an mein unverstandenes Gastland) seit Tagen lese ich in der Zeitung, dass Du unter einer Staatskrise leidest. Weil Dein Ministerpräsident es nicht schafft, Deine Gliedmaßen (Flandern, die Wallonie und Brüssel) neu zu sortieren.
BROKEN BELGIUM
Mary Honeyball 1 Year, 8 Months, 3 Days, 17 Hours, 1 Minute ago
The long running saga of who governs Belgium is continuing. br /A couple of days ago the Belgian Prime Minister, Yves Leterme, tendered his resignation to the King after failing to reconcile differences between Belgium's French and Flemish speaking c...
Belgium as role-model for the EU
Nosemonkey's EUTopia 1 Year, 8 Months, 4 Days, 19 Hours, 33 Minutes ago
An interesting discussion’s kicked off in the comments to that history of Belgium piece, looking at how the current Belgian crisis could prove a very useful case study and model for future EU reform. It kicks of with this from SD (a Belgian, as...
One joojooflop situation
A Fistful of Euros 1 Year, 8 Months, 5 Days, 13 Hours, 18 Minutes ago
The Prime Minister of Belgium has offered to resign, setting up an unwanted rematch with Serbia to see which European parliamentary republic can go the longest without a national government. Serbia’s recent entry in the contest is a mere 57 day...
Failed state Belgien
Reflexionen 1 Year, 8 Months, 5 Days, 17 Hours, 6 Minutes ago
Die taz hat heute einen treffender Kommentar über Belgien als erfolgreichsten failed state aller Zeiten in ihrem Blatt. Mehr gibt es eigentlich nich hinzuzufügen, denn dieses peinliche Koaltionsgeplänkel zwischen streitenden Flamen und Wallonen na...
Why Belgium?
Nosemonkey's EUTopia 1 Year, 8 Months, 6 Days, 12 Hours, 42 Minutes ago
Another Belgian governmental crisis. But hell, it's only Belgium, right? What's worth getting so het up about? To find out, we need to go back more than 2,000 years...
Belgian Government Collapses
Gulf Stream Blues 1 Year, 8 Months, 6 Days, 16 Hours, 50 Minutes ago
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Time to dissolve Belgium?
Certain ideas of Europe (Economist) 1 Year, 8 Months, 6 Days, 18 Hours, 41 Minutes ago
The argument for a political divorce...
Belgium back to crisis
Julien Frisch 1 Year, 8 Months, 1 Week, 4 Hours, 2 Minutes ago
Several news sources report that Belgian prime minister Leterme has offered his resignation tonight:Belgian media say Prime Minister Yves Leterme has offered his resignation after his government failed to agree on more self-rule for Belgium's Dutch a...
Belgien: Commission Communautaire française nimmt Vertrag an
European Union Law Blog 1 Year, 8 Months, 1 Week, 3 Days, 9 Hours, 47 Minutes ago
Am heutigen Freitag hat in Belgien auch die Commission Communautaire française fast einstimmig den Vertrag von Lissabon angenommen. Diese Entscheidung war die letzterforderliche vor der Unterzeichnung durch den belgischen König, um den national...
La grande illusion des francophones de Belgique
Coulisses de Bruxelles (Libération) 1 Year, 9 Months, 2 Weeks, 3 Days, 4 Hours, 16 Minutes ago
Yves Leterme, le Premier ministre belge, (photo: Thierry Monasse) s’y est engagé : d’ici à la mi-juillet, son gouvernement parviendra à un accord sur la réforme institutionnelle de la Belgique. Elu en juin 2007 sur ce programme, le dirigeant...