It was only on January 23rd that Belgian students organised protest rallies to urge their country's politicians to get a move on.
The RBS group wants to break up the lender into three parts, so that Belgian-Dutch bank Fortis would get ABN's Dutch operations, Spanish bank Banco Santander Central Hispano SA, acquires ABN's Brazilian and Italian arms, and RBS getting Chicago-based LaSalle.
The RBS group wants to break up the lender into three parts, so that Belgian-Dutch bank Fortis would get ABN's Dutch operations, Spanish bank Banco Santander Central Hispano SA (nyse: STD - news - people ), acquires ABN's Brazilian and Italian arms, and RBS getting Chicago-based LaSalle.
And in some cases, what's being fought over - and what our interest is - is the integrity of places that have no natural integrity and that ultimately, the resolution of these conflicts is going to involve our giving up on the idea that the Belgian king's boundaries are the real boundaries, or that the French foreign office's boundaries are the real boundaries.
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It is, however, not a coincidence that a Belgian seems the most likely candidate.
But he said the resignation showed that the Belgian Catholic Church wanted to "resolutely turn a page on a very painful" topic.
Since the veto has been retained too for EU treaty changes it seems unlikely that the Belgian plan would be accepted in the foreseeable future.
This was the zero tolerance that the Belgian authorities had promised.
Officials were still identifying those killed, but said that 21 were Belgian and seven were Dutch.
He gets around the fact that he loves Belgian Whites by calling them witbiers.
That said, Belgian business life has been shaken up by an injection of competition thanks to the completion of the EU internal market.
However former Belgian prime minister Jean-Luc Dehaene, who now sits as an MEP, said the domestic crisis meant that the acting Belgian government could give it's "full attention" to the presidency.
She also worked with a designer, Kathryn Sykora, to find antique pieces that were both decorative and functional, such as a 1930s industrial mail sorter from Paris that displays knickknacks and organizes fliers and a vintage Belgian railway sign that's been converted into a foyer table.
In attempting to verify these documents -- from FIFA, the various federations and clubs involved -- only the world governing body and the Belgian FA responded directly to CNN's request to confirm their authenticity, while a professional Belgian referee confirmed that the Anderlecht team sheet was the type of paperwork used in Belgian football.
Alleged attempts by officials to influence that ruling caused the Belgian government to fall in December.
Market people are worried that Dexia, a Belgian bank, could be hit hard, bringing Belgian sovereign debt into the picture next.
In June 2009 he was sent back to Greece, despite having told the Belgian authorities that he risked detention in appalling conditions there.
Recent fiscal reforms in Germany and France (as well as Italian and Belgian proposals that are in the pipeline) show that euro-area economies can still go their own way in key areas.
Of course, the irony is that all the new wave Belgian breweries are making American-style imperial IPAs and barrel-aged imperial stouts.
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The South African beef sausage is heavily laced with coriander, a spice that also features in the Belgian-style witbier with a perfumed nose and a palate-cleansing finish.
Ecclestone, who has said there would be no British Grand Prix if Donington was not ready in 2010, said at the Belgian Grand Prix that he had no worries.
It is only now, 400 years after the invention of the decimal system by Simon Stevin, a forgotten Belgian tradesman, that counting time in tens has become an economic imperative.
In return, Tony Blair has extracted a promise from Guy Verhofstadt, his Belgian counterpart, that when the convention reports in 2003 or 2004 it will not come up with a take-it-or-leave-it blueprint, but will instead offer a series of options for national leaders to consider.
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According to Belgian media reports, the Belgian government said that the tour operator organizing the voyage, Aarschot-based Toptours, had an excellent record and that it was unlikely that the bus driver, who had arrived one day earlier in Switzerland, may have fallen asleep only 20 minutes after the group left the holiday resort.
It recorded a Belgian earthquake in 1938 that was also felt in London.
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What I don't anticipate is the arrival of Belgian police who announce that if either my colleague or I photograph or film the body, we will be arrested, our camera equipment impounded and - possibly - the archaeological dig closed down.
"It goes by itself that it is impossible for the Belgian FA to control manually whether every player taking part in a game organized by our federation is also a member of our federation, " said the Belgian FA in a statement.
Belgian authorities continue to insist that the alleged cell was a potential national security threat.
That appeared to calm market tensions: Belgian yields have plummeted to around 4.27%.
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