World news about “Belgium”, including breaking news and archival articles published by euronews.
Martens returns to find new Belgian premier Belgium’s King Albert has moved swiftly to ensure the loss of his prime minister to the European presidency does not… 21/11/2009 - tags: Belgium, Politics
Why Van Rompuy is EU President … the Kingdom of Belgium, the Fleming … very fabric of Belgium to sit down … 19/11/2009 - tags: Belgium, Council of Europe, European Union
Spain, Belgium, Hungary EU Presidency team Spain, Belgium and Hungary are teaming together for their combined 18-months running of the European Union presidency… 29/10/2009 - tags: Belgium, EU Presidency, Hungary
Van Rompuy – Belgian ‘loss’ Europe’s gain?… a bad deal for Belgium because he has … instability in Belgium. A good thing … bad thing for Belgium!" … 09/11/2009 - tags: Belgium, EU Council
Rail strike halts Belgium’s trainsThousands of commuters have been forced to find different ways of getting to and from work after a 24-hour strike by… 05/11/2009 - tag: Belgium
More misery for Belgian rail users… will connect Belgium with … traffic inside Belgium has … 05/11/2009 - tags: Belgium, Transport
Belgium rents Dutch prison cells… inmates from Belgium which is … Belgium will rent … hours. In Belgium, detainees can … Belgium has a prison … 31/10/2009 - tags: Belgium, Netherlands, jail
Jails ‘too dangerous’ say striking Belgian guards… across Belgium are on strike … Belgium has a prison … 30/10/2009 - tag: Belgium
EU farm ministers discuss milk crisisA convoy of tractors headed out of Soumagne in Belgium bound for Brussels as EU agriculture ministers meet to discuss… 05/10/2009 - tags: Belgium, Agriculture
Ireland is the toast as “Yes” campaign celebrates in BrusselsIt was Guinness all round at Kitty O’Shea’s bar in Brussels, where supporters of the “yes” camp gathered to cheer their… 03/10/2009 - tags: Belgium, Treaty of Lisbon, referendum
Belgium’s Solvay sells drugs divisionBelgium pharmaceutical, chemicals and plastics giant Solvay has announced it is to sell its drugs arm to US partner… 28/09/2009 - tags: Belgium, Health, pharmaceutical companies
Anti-veil protest in Brussels… or not. Now Belgium's 40 percent … as passed in Belgium's Flemish … in northern Belgium banned the … 26/09/2009 - tags: Belgium, education, Women
Millenium Film Festival gets underwayThe Millenium Film Festival is underway in Brussels. It is a new festival dedicated to documentaries dealing with the… 23/09/2009 - tags: Belgium, Documentary
Second night of riots in Brussels – 43 arrestedPolice in the Belgian capital Brussels have arrested 43 people following a second night of civil unrest. On… 19/09/2009 - tags: Belgium, Demonstration, Conflict
Belgium brings in new immigration law… status in Belgium came into … their homes in Belgium need to … to access Belgium's healthcare … 16/09/2009 - tags: Belgium, Immigration, Law
Belgium headscarf row growsSchools in the Belgian Dutch-speaking region of Flanders are to ban the wearing of the Muslim headscarf by their girl… 15/09/2009 - tags: Belgium, Religion, education, Women
Headscarf ban in some Belgian schoolsThe wearing of headscarves has been banned in all publicly run schools in the Dutch speaking part of Belgium. The… 12/09/2009 - tags: Belgium, Religion, Society
Push to reregulate milk sectorA German-French proposal to reregulate Europe’s milk sector has won support from 14 other countries at a meeting of the… 07/09/2009 - tags: Belgium, European Union, Agriculture, Demonstration
Last man captured from Belgian jailbreak… as one of Belgium's most … returning to Belgium. … handed back to Belgium. Morocco never … 10/08/2009 - tags: Belgium, Morocco, jail
Police hunt for clues to cause of care home blazeAn investigation is underway into the cause of a fire which killed nine people at a retirement home in the northern… 07/08/2009 - tags: Belgium, fires
Nine pensioners die in elderly residence fireA fire has ripped through an elderly people’s home in Belgium killing nine pensioners. A further three victims… 07/08/2009 - tag: Belgium
Life sentence for suspected militant in MoroccoThe suspected ring-leader of a 35-member extremist group in Morocco has been handed a life sentence by a court in the… 28/07/2009 - tags: Belgium, Morocco, Justice
Belgium draws up new immigration rulesThe Belgian government has announced an agreement over new rules for dealing with illegal immigrants. The issue… 20/07/2009 - tags: Belgium, Immigration, Demonstration
Belgium announces new residency guidelinesBelgium’s government has announced an agreement over new rules on dealing with illegal immigrants. The issue has… 19/07/2009 - tags: Belgium, Immigration, Immigrants
Pants museum opensIs it art or is it just….pants? Whatever your take on the underpants museum in Brussels, Belgium…the artist… 18/07/2009 - tags: Belgium, Exhibition
Belgian farmers block border in milk protest… roads from Belgium into France … Tournai in Belgium and the French … Mons in Belgium and … 13/07/2009 - tags: Belgium, Agriculture, Demonstration
Farmers block Belgian supermarkets over milk priceMore than 300 dairy farmers in Belgium have blockaded supermarket depots, angry at the price they get for their milk… 29/06/2009 - tags: Belgium, Agriculture, Crisis
Belgium gets first deputy wearing Muslim headscarfIn Brussels, Mahinur Ozdemir, 26, has become the first deputy wearing a Muslim headscarf to be sworn into the regional… 24/06/2009 - tags: Belgium, Religion, Society, Elections
Van Miert, former Commissioner, diesFormer European Commissioner Karel Van Miert has died, apparently from falling from a ladder in his garden in Belgium… 23/06/2009 - tags: Belgium, EU Commission, Accident
Low Countries’ police smash drugs ringPolice forces from two European countries have smashed what they are calling a major drugs cartel. Officers from… 16/06/2009 - tags: Belgium, Drugs, Netherlands
Regional vote to change Belgium’s political sceneAs well as electing their representatives to the next European parliament, Belgians were also being called to vote in… 07/06/2009 - tags: Belgium, Elections
Regional vote in Belgium set to change political sceneAs Belgium, too, goes to the polls to elect a new European parliament, it also faces regional elections which analysts… 07/06/2009 - tags: Belgium, EU Parliament, European elections
New Magritte Museum in BrusselsThe new Magritte Museum has opened in the centre of Brussels. It contains the world’s largest collection of his work… 03/06/2009 - tags: Belgium, Art, Museum
Robots influence cockroach behaviourIn the Free University laboratory in Brussels they are doing research to see how “insbots” – insect robots – can… 02/06/2009 - tags: Belgium, Technology
Probe into bullets hand-outAn investigation is underway into a military exercise in The Netherlands when Belgian and French soldiers allegedly… 18/05/2009 - tags: Belgium, Netherlands, Army
EU institutional triangle landBrussels, a city within a city… the heart of Europe. Most of the European institutions are concentrated in the… 08/05/2009 - tags: Belgium, European Union, European elections
French posters supressed in BelgiumTension is mounting in Belgium between French and Dutch speakers ahead of regional and European elections… 05/05/2009 - tag: Belgium
Going Dutch: Belgium considers prison overflow in the Netherlands… Belgium's jails have … Belgium's Justice … a stop-gap, as Belgium plans to build … conditions in Belgium's jails mean … 22/04/2009 - tag: Belgium
Belgian navy joins fight against piracyA Belgian navy ship is on its way to fight piracy off Somalia, as part of international efforts to stop a growing… 19/04/2009 - tags: Belgium, Somalia, Piracy
Belgian ship and 10 crew seized by Somali piratesA Belgian ship with ten crew members has become the latest vessel to be seized by pirates off Somalia. The Pompei was… 18/04/2009 - tags: Belgium, Somalia, Piracy
Illegal immigrant protesters burst in on EU Liberals… in Belgium, with hundreds … to stay in Belgium, legally, for … 16/04/2009 - tags: Belgium, European elections
Belgium refuses to budge over hunger strikers… across Belgium have not eaten … In March, Belgium's five party … 15/04/2009 - tag: Belgium
Belgium’s schools get a security shake-upThe Belgian government is spending millions of euros on measures to keep schools safe from violence. Part of the plan… 14/03/2009 - tag: Belgium
Belgium postal workers strike… stake in the Belgium Post Office to … than half of Belgium's mail was … 02/03/2009 - tag: Belgium
Belgium opens zero emissions polar base… small country, Belgium can show it's … to move from Belgium to the South … 15/02/2009 - tags: Antarctica, Belgium, Science
Vote leaves questions over FortisAngry shareholders of Belgium group Fortis have rejected state-led deals to carve up the ailing financial services firm… 11/02/2009 - tags: Belgium, Netherlands
Knifeman kills three at Belgian crecheAt least two children and one adult were killed after an attacker burst into a creche in Belgium and stabbed them to… 23/01/2009 - tag: Belgium
Fatal stabbing at Belgian crecheA man has been arrested after a knife attack at a creche in Belgium that left two children and one adult dead. It… 23/01/2009 - tag: Belgium
Belgian MPs to vote on new leadershipThe new Belgian Prime Minister will put his political future on the line later today, as parliament is called upon to… 02/01/2009 - tags: Belgium, Prime Minister
Belgium back in business as Prime Minister sworn inThe new Belgian Prime Minister is set to address Parliament for the first time later this morning, with the country’s… 31/12/2008 - tags: Belgium, Prime Minister
Belgium hopes for a new goverment today… government in Belgium says he … Belgium is expected to … 30/12/2008 - tags: Belgium, Financial Crisis
Belgian political veteran aims to break deadlock… him to form Belgium's new … division in Belgium's regions … he helped take Belgium into the euro … 29/12/2008 - tag: Belgium
Belgium’s ‘reluctant’ prime minister… of forming Belgium's next … needs to end Belgium's third … to bridge Belgium's cultural … 29/12/2008 - tag: Belgium
“Reluctant” Van Rompuy tries to form Belgian govt… government in Belgium. … try to end Belgium's third … 29/12/2008 - tags: Belgium, Politics
Van Rompuy begins work on new Belgian coalitionThe speaker of Belgium’s Parliament will begin work today on forming a new government, after stepping in to save the… 29/12/2008 - tag: Belgium
Belgian media name likely new PMThere appears to be progress in the search for a new Prime Minister in Belgium, with local media reporting the name of… 27/12/2008 - tags: Belgium, Prime Minister
Belgium’s Mr Fixit hints at long-term govt goalThe search to find a new government in Belgium appears to have made some progress. The mediator appointed to find… 27/12/2008 - tags: Belgium, Prime Minister
Belgium turns to political statesman over crisisBelgium has turned to a veteran politician to broker a new government, after a scandal over the botched bail out of the… 23/12/2008 - tag: Belgium
King holds talks on Belgian crisisBelgium is without a government, and meetings between politicians and King Albert have shed no light on who will become… 22/12/2008 - tag: Belgium
No going back – Ex-PM Leterme will not return… the rescue of Belgium's Fortis Bank. … Last month Belgium saw a record … 22/12/2008 - tag: Belgium
Belgium waits, as King ponders its political futureBelgium remains in political limbo, as the King continues with efforts to find a new Prime Minister. King Albert… 21/12/2008 - tags: Belgium, Prime Minister, Crisis
New Belgian PM to be named within 24 hours?Belgium’s King Albert is continuing in his efforts to find a new prime minister, and the news from the royal palace is… 21/12/2008 - tags: Belgium, Prime Minister, Crisis
Belgian King continues government deliberationsIn Belgium, the rumour mills are already buzzing about who might be the next Prime Minister, even before the country’s… 21/12/2008 - tags: Belgium, Prime Minister
What now for Belgium?… As the king of Belgium ponders his … be devolved to Belgium's regions - a … 20/12/2008 - tags: Belgium, Crisis
New political crisis in Belgium… resolution to Belgium's latest … time this year Belgium has sunk into … 20/12/2008 - tags: Belgium, Crisis
Belgium: Govt resigns over court interference claimBelgium has been thrown into chaos once again at the highest level. Prime Minister Yves Leterme has tendered the… 20/12/2008 - tags: Belgium, Financial Crisis
The fate of the Belgian government is now in the hands of the country’s monarch, King Albert II… between Belgium's linguistic … Most of Belgium's political … 19/12/2008 - tag: Belgium
Leterme offers to dissolve government… the judiciary. Belgium's Justice … has rocked Belgium's already … 19/12/2008 - tags: Belgium, Politics, Financial Crisis, Prime Minister
Leterme fights for political lifeThe political future of Belgian Prime Minister Yves Leterme is hanging by a thread ahead of a Supreme Court report… 19/12/2008 - tags: Belgium, Prime Minister
Leterme could avoid resignation calls in BelgiumThere are signs that the Belgian Prime Minister Yves Leterme might be able to use a legal loophole to sidestep calls… 19/12/2008 - tags: Belgium, Prime Minister
BNP suspends Fortis dealThe future of Fortis has become even more uncertain as BNP Paribas said it is suspending a key part of its deal to… 18/12/2008 - tags: Banking, Belgium, France, Corporate
Belgium’s top court slams govt over Fortis casePressure is mounting on Belgium’s Prime Minister. The country’s highest court has now accused his administration of… 18/12/2008 - tags: Belgium, Prime Minister
Belgian PM faces calls to quitBelgium faces more political upheaval, with Prime Minister Yves Leterme facing calls to resign over charges that he… 18/12/2008 - tags: Belgium, Prime Minister
Investors relieved at Fortis court rulingInvestors have reacted favourably to Friday’s appeal court ruling suspending asset sales of the Fortis financial group… 13/12/2008 - tags: Banking, Belgium
Deals said to be close in BrusselsEuropean Union members are said to be edging closer to a deal on ways to tackle climate change and stimulate their… 12/12/2008 - tags: Belgium, EU Summit, European Union, Ireland
Was EU summit target of terrorists?The question on the minds of many at the EU summit in Brussels is whether leaders might have been the target of a… 12/12/2008 - tags: Afghanistan, Belgium, EU Summit, Pakistan, Terrorism
Belgium holds al Qaeda suspects over attack plan… excluded that Belgium or Europe … in Brussels, Belgium's Prime … 11/12/2008 - tags: Belgium, Terrorism
Money, climate at crux of EU summitMajor economic stimulus and climate change pacts are in play for the European Union at its leaders’ summit, now… 11/12/2008 - tags: Belgium, EU Summit
Possible Al Qaeda bombers arrested in BelgiumBelgian police say 14 people have been arrested, suspected of planning a terrorist attack, possibly on today’s … 11/12/2008 - tags: Belgium, EU Summit, Terrorism
Buy a car and get one freeAs recession stalks Europe and the wider world, retailers are coming up with all manner of ideas to get consumers to… 02/12/2008 - tags: Belgium, Cars, Economy
Internet baby sale scandalises BelgiumA wave of emotion and disbelief has swept through Belgium after a new-born baby was sold on the internet. His… 25/11/2008 - tags: Belgium, Internet
Fortis shareholders’ case rejectedA Belgian court has rejected a claim that the state dismantling of Fortis violated shareholder’s rights. However it… 18/11/2008 - tags: Banking, Belgium, Justice
