Belgium - Guy Verhofstadt
Guy VerhofstadtPrime Minister
(pronounced "GEE fer-HOFE-stott")
"This country must function better and rebuild its image in the world."
The K...
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Brussels (dpa) - The longest-running political crisis in Belgium's
post-war history entered a new phase Saturday as the man charged with
forming a government resigned.
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Outgoing Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt said Monday he will seek to end the deadlock in government negotiations between the country's Dutch-speaking and Francophone parties, six months after suffer...
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Brussels (dpa) - Belgium's King Albert II asked ousted premier Guy
Verhofstadt to head an interim government on Monday, after more than
six months of political deadlock in t...
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BRUSSELS, Dec 23 (Reuters) - The jailed al Qaeda suspect at
the centre of a security scare in Belgium has insisted he had no
plans to launch an attack on the country, a newspaper reported
on Sunda...
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BRUSSELS, Dec 21 - King Albert reappointed Guy Verhofstadt
as prime minister on Friday to head an interim government
charged with trying to bridge Belgium's ever-widening
linguistic divide. The fo...
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A Belgian judge on Monday ruled King Albert II's youngest son can be called to testify as a witness in the fraud trial of 12 people accused of pocketing some $2.9 million allegedly siphoned from th...
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Brussels (dpa) - Following spectacular witness testimonies in a
fraud case that has prompted a debate about the future of the
monarchy in Belgium, Prince Laurent, 43, has be...
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Brussels (dpa) - In the latest sequel of a fraud case that has
prompted a debate about the future of the monarchy in Belgium, Prince
Laurent, the youngest son of King Albert...
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Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt took his eight-year legacy of a liberal-socialist coalition government to voters on Sunday, hoping that polls predicting losses prove incorrect.Christian Democrats ha...
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Berlin (dpa) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel was meeting the
leaders of Belgium, Ireland and Sweden on Thursday as part of her
preparations for next month's European Union...
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Belgium - Guy Verhofstadt
Belgian coalition talks collapse after 6-month drama
