It would be even more awkward if the euro's birth broke Europe's sole currency union, that between Belgium and Luxembourg.
At a meeting of European finance ministers on Tuesday, Austria, Belgium and Luxembourg objected to plans for an end to banking secrecy.
Meanwhile, France, Belgium and Luxembourg have approved a plan to secure the future of the troubled bank Dexia, following fears it could go bankrupt.
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Other nations interested in hosting the 2018 event include England, Russia, Australia, Spain, China, Mexico and a joint bid from the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg.
Mr Verhofstadt is holding a mini-summit in Brussels at the end of the month, bringing together France, Germany, Belgium and Luxembourg to discuss European defence.
Most notably, France refuses to scrap checks on its northern border with Belgium and Luxembourg: it objects to soft drugs' free availability in the Netherlands.
That confidence helped BNP Paribas to pick up bits of Fortis in 2009 at an attractive price, bringing a big retail presence in Belgium and Luxembourg.
She even still drives an old smart fortwo that she bought back in 2000 while living in Brussels, where she was the head of Daimler for Belgium and Luxembourg.
EU. Attempts by diehards to forge a core group of countries that builds a United States of Europe would also founder because, outside Belgium and Luxembourg, there is no longer a serious appetite for a federal Europe.
The RBS consortium is in contrast planning to break ABN into three equal parts, giving RBS LaSalle Bank, the Asian operations and corporate banking, Santander the Brazilian and Italian units, and Fortis the operations in Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.
When German and Italy teamed up with their former enemies France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, the British Prime Minister Clement Attlee is said to have dismissed the new union as a group of six nations, "four of whom we had to rescue from the other two".
Royal guests include the Greek royal family, the Queen of Denmark and representatives from Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Norway.
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The Commission has already taken action against brewers in Belgium, France and Luxembourg for similar offences.
Reijtenbagh's investment activities started in 1985 when he began running the Plaza Group, his family-held investment firm with offices in Belgium, Monaco and Luxembourg.
OECD's members Switzerland, Belgium, Austria and Luxembourg would not sign on to the project because they would have to give up their banking-secrecy rules, which do not allow the exchange of information about foreign tax evasion.
In September the governments of Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg all injected capital to stabilise the bank.
And Belgium, France and - to a tiny extent - Luxembourg are also providing guarantees that lenders of up to 90bn euros to Dexia over the coming ten years would get their money back (they are guaranteeing up to 90bn euros of inter-bank and bond funding for up to a decade).
The seven launch customers are the UK, France, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, Spain and Turkey.
Exclude the countries where voting is compulsory Greece, Luxembourg and Belgium and the figure drops to 47% (see article).
The governments of Luxembourg and Belgium, which both own a slice of Arcelor, also expressed doubts about the approach.
The European Commission, however, turned to the courts to outlaw open-skies deals made by Britain, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Belgium, Luxembourg, Austria and Germany.
Industrial production in the euro area increased by 1.8% in August compared with the previous month, thanks to strong activity in Portugal, Luxembourg and Belgium.
Where else in France has such a good claim to be at the heart of Europe, motorway-minutes from Germany, Luxembourg, Belgium and Switzerland, with a workforce that speaks both French and thanks to past invasions quite a bit of German?
It is reported that in the 1, 000 page ruling, the WTO also criticises Austria, Belgium, France, Germany Italy and Luxembourg for banning several genetically modified organisms (GMOs) already cleared by the European Commission.
French health authorities declared a Europe-wide alert on Friday as Coudray distributes its products in Belgium, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg and Switzerland.
These follow other companies that include major chains of supermarkets in England, Germany, Finland, Denmark, Sweden and Belgium, pasta makers in Italy and Spain, international hamburger producers in Ireland, Luxembourg and Romania, and frozen food giants in France and Portugal.
Anti-SPDC activists cited the parallels between the Yangon conference and hypothetical meetings in Baghdad and Kabul to help persuade Belgium, Britain, Denmark, France, Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway and the U.S. to boycott the meeting.
As well as Switzerland, assisted suicide is also legal in Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Belgium.
The treaty signed by six nations -- Belgium, France, West Germany, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands -- was intended to create lasting economic and political stability for a continent ravaged by war.
On that day in 1951, leaders of six European countries--Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and West Germany--signed the Treaty of Paris to create the European Coal and Steel Community, the forerunner of today's European Union.
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