Its Dutch owners took the move after deciding the business was no longer economically viable.
"The decision to proceed towards a sale comes after the government secured agreement from its Dutch and German partners, " the UK's Department for Business, Innovation and Skills said.
The Flemish parties want to split BHV so that its Dutch-speaking components, Halle and Vilvoorde, become part of neighbouring Flemish voting districts to the north, leaving Brussels which is constitutionally bilingual as a separate district.
On Thursday BPI's board met and instructed its lawyers to press on with selling the Italian bank's nearly 30% stake in Antonveneta to its Dutch rival, having decided to sell up last week.
KPNQwest, which is owned by KPN and by Qwest Communications, filed for protection from its creditors under Dutch law after its entire supervisory board resigned.
Case studies, historic maps, photographs, newspapers, government documents, and original objects are used to explore the evolution and development of the once rural island through the centuries, beginning with its early Dutch days.
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Likewise, for all its flaws, Dutch is a fresh look at this great man.
Antitrust concerns will force UPS to scrap its acquisition of Dutch TNT Express.
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Under Dutch regulatory rules, Barclays must make its official offer to ABN shareholders on or before July 23, though is still unclear whether Dutch regulators also require RBS publish its official bid before that date.
According to the BBC, Spamhaus said the attack was in retaliation for its blacklisting of the Dutch company.
It was incorporated into Indonesia in 1949, four years after the country had declared its independence from the Dutch crown.
Its seizure meant the Dutch importers didn't pay their Surinamese shippers, who then scrambled to buy dollars for their South American-suppliers.
Its maker, a Dutch alchemist called Cornelius van Drebbel, is thought to have used a primitive oxygen-supply system, based on saltpetre, to prevent the crew from asphyxiating.
Royal Dutch Shell resumed its gasoline shipments to Iran, International Oil Daily reported this morning.
This is one of the grandest neighbourhoods in Brooklyn, its wide streets lined with Dutch Colonial and Greek Revival townhouses.
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In 1999 the U.N. admitted its error in expecting 100 Dutch troops to deter the Bosnian Serb army.
The dodo was mocked by Portuguese and Dutch colonialists for its size and apparent lack of fear of armed, hungry hunters.
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In the financial space, banking firm ING is carving out ING US as it unloads overseas operations as stipulated by its 2008 bailout by the Dutch government.
Uncover, a Dutch company showcasing its talents here at The Next Web Conference in Amsterdam this week, has crafted a new method of customizing one's MacBook lid.
If approved, and ExxonMobil can build the barge as planned, it could be in production by the year 2020, about four years after Royal Dutch Shell commissions its FLNG vessel atop the Prelude gas field, also off the west Australian coast.
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It also points to its work for U.S. Foodservice, helping the unit of the disgraced Dutch grocery chain Royal Ahold overcome its accounting and legal headaches.
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The interactive installation Endless Stair takes its inspiration from a drawing by Dutch graphic artist MC Escher.
That, Mr Winner argues, is the way that Dutch football, at its best, works.
Fortis, a Belgo-Dutch bank overstretched by its role in acquiring ABN AMRO, is now part-owned by the Benelux governments.
That is far less likely for an institution such as Fortis, a large Belgo-Dutch bank which saw its shares plunge this week.
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Ping An held close to a 5% stake in Fortis when it was dismantled and some its assets sold off by the Dutch and Belgian governments.
There was more evidence of growing shareholder activism at European companies when investors representing 59% of the shares in Royal Dutch Shell voted against its remuneration report.
This week the Dutch government collapsed, its president and his cabinet resigning after failure to reach agreement with the opposition on austerity measures to tackle its debt and deficit problems.
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