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Farage to Belgium: I'm sorry; but he's not apologizing to Van Rompuy Speaking to New Europe ahead of his meeting with European Parliament President, Jerzy Buzek, the unrepentant EFD Leader Nigel Farage, spoke about being disciplined, his contentious remarks, his involvement in the controversial second pension scheme Farage To Belgium: "I'm Sorry"  Speaking to New Europe ahead of his meeting with Parliament President, Jerzy Buzek, the unrepentant EFD Leader spoke about being disciplined, his contentious remarks, his involvement in the controversial second pension scheme and on rumours Deadly train crash outside of Brussels  Over 20 people are dead, and many others seriously injured, after two packed commuter trains collided head-on Monday morning near Halle, a city just nine miles southwest of Brussels in the Dutch-speaking region of Flanders.
One EU-India’s free trade deal is still in the talking stage  Two years after the European Union and India began negotiating a Free Trade Agreement that has enemies in both places, the talks are continuing with the hope of concluding by the end of the year, India looks for stronger trade and political ties with the EU  Anytime you get 300 business executives in one place, you know deals are going to be hatched, and Brussels was abuzz last week with the India Calling 2009 India-Europe Business Partnership Summit, a high-powered event Westerschelde bill to go unpaid A new row was brewing last week between Belgium and the Netherlands over a 300 million Euro bill. According to local news reports, the Belgian government indicated that it would not be paying the Netherlands Crisis 3.0 Once upon a time (over the last two to five years), in a land far far away (also known as the US) a little thing called a mortgage became very easy to obtain, but very New Belgian Prime Minister Herman van Rompuy takes office  Herman Van Rompuy, Flemish Christian democrat, speaker of the Chamber of Deputies is the new Prime Minister. Earlier, the outgoing Prime Minister Yves Leterme came under fire along with his justice minister amid allegations they New Belgian Prime Minister Herman van Rompuy takes offfice Herman Van Rompuy, Flemish Christian democrat, speaker of the Chamber of Deputies is the new Prime Minister. Earlier, the outgoing Prime Minister Yves Leterme came under fire along with his justice minister amid allegations they Fortis sale could be downfall of Belgian PM Belgian Prime Minister Yves Leterme faced growing calls to quit after his office was accused of trying to influence a court ruling on the sale of the country's troubled Fortis bank reported Deutsche Presse Agentur Ban Ki-moon asks for troops for UN mission in Congo  United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has asked Belgium to provide troops for a military mission in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Prime Minister Yves Leterme says he will study the request. Chinese put on the pressure in Fortis case  In full discretion, the Chinese have started an offensive to recover the money lost by the insurer Ping An as a shareholder of Fortis during the takeover of the banking and insurance section by the Fortis sale not legal says top prosecutor  Fortis Bank’s sale to BNP Paribas must be approved at first by Fortis shareholders at the general shareholders’ meeting next month said Brussels public prosecutor Paul Dhaeyer during summary proceedings before the court of commerce Belgians to join in EU force in Congo The federal government is willing to join in on a military operation in the Congolese province of Kivu in order to obtain peace even by force of arms reported De Staandaard on October 31. The Political deadlock rears its head again A new political deadlock took root in Belgian politics last week as the resignation of Prime Minister Yves Leterme had been blocked by Belgium‘s Head of State, King Albert II. This event followed the failure Government falls with Letterme resignation The July 15 reactions to Belgium’s latest government crisis reflected longstanding divisions among the country’s political parties, with some calling for more talks, others demanding fresh elections and others still urging a split of the country along its linguistic Di Rupo’s first intention is a socio-economic accord The umbrella steering group of party leaders chaired by Yves Leterme and Minister of Justice Jo Vandeurzen produced very poor results last evening on July 4 Flanders Today reported. The breakthrough would have had to Leterme announces initiative on Suez interest in Fluxys In the power struggle between Suez and the municipal holding Publigas premier Leterme has sided with the latter. He announced in the Chamber that the government will force Suez to drop its share in the A legion of tractors, trucks and taxis descends on Brussels On June 18, farmers, taxi drivers and truckers rallied in their vehicles at the Cinquantenaire Park in Brussels from to protest what they said was the government’s inaction with regards to helping different sectors of the economy cope with the EDF not a good contender for Distrigas takeover yet Prime Minister Yves Leterme made it clear in his meeting with French President Nicolas Sarkozy that he does not consider Electricite de France (EDF) a suitable contender for the takeover of the Belgian gas distributor Delizee replaces Laloux as State Secretary Following Frederic Laloux’s resignation on April 19, Jean-Marc Delizee, a colleague from the Francophone Socialist Party (PS), was sworn in as State Secretary the next day. The candidacy of Delizee was put forward by the French frontier-workers tax regime upsets employers Yves Leterme (CD&V) will discuss extending the favourable tax regime for French frontier workers until 2012 with French President Sarkozy early in May. Initially, tax benefits for French frontier workers were to be phased out Lawmakers demand royal family allowance be cut  Belgian lawmakers demanded a cut in the living allowance of King Albert’s youngest son, Prince Laurent, April 17, following claims the prince used taxpayer’s money to buy an Italian villa in 2002 for one million DHL says adieu to Brussels Airport Courier service DHL closed its international sorting office at Zaventem early last week to move operations to Leipzig. The company’s decision to move its headquarters was taken in October 2004 when the various governments (federal, Budgetary struggles Government bills lingering from the Verhofstadt Administration total two billion Euro. Green deputy Georges Gilkinet stated Verhofstadt’s budgetary policy was unsound. Verhofstadt may have succeeded in balancing the budget during Leterme’s illness. In reality, income Employment flash: lots of jobs coming On March 19, the Leterme government concluded an agreement vouching to create 200,000 jobs during their mandate just as former prime minister Guy Verhofstadt had promised. Even if the agreement was relatively vague, it did Francophones don’t show up much in new government  According to GERFA, the public function study and reform group, Francophones in Prime Minister Yves Leterme’s government are underrepresented. This was equally the case in former prime minister Guy Verhofstadt’s interim government. All regal ministerial New Federal government  After nearly nine months of political uncertainty, Belgium last week got a new Federal Government in a five party coalition when the new Prime Minister Yves Leterme was sworn in by King Albert. “The king Verhofstadt interim government by Royal decree  Belgian caretaker Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt has been asked to form an interim government six months after his Flemish Liberal party was defeated in the general elections. King Albert II turned to Verhofstadt on December Yet another attempt to form a coalition government  Outgoing Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt embarked on a series of meetings to find a way out of Belgium’s continuing government stalemate and he said the warring political parties that have stymied formation of a government |
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