The German Fury in Belgium: Experiences of a Netherland Journalist During Four Months With the German Army in Belgium,
France24 (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
A Belgian man thought to have been in a coma for 23 years has told of his "second birth" after doctors realised he was in fact conscious, a German weekly reported Monday. Medical staff at a hospital in Liege, eastern Belgium, believed Rom Houben had been left in a vegetative state by a serious car accident in 1983, but he was simply paralysed and unable to communicate. The former engineering...
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rail Europe Inc., the largest distributor of European rail products in North America, announces new Thalys high-speed routes connecting major European cities. The new Thalys high-speed train routes connect the cities of Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam, Antwerp, Rotterdam, Cologne, Liège and Aachen, expanding European train travel into the New Year with significantly...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Mr Becu's tirade ( Letters , 21 November) shows an impressive lack of self-awareness. Perhaps if he had any knowledge of neighbouring countries, he would know the level of support for Blair in Britain. I arrived in Belgium some five years ago with the vague idea that, indeed, we were not "real" Europeans, as we had little knowledge or interest of what happened in Euroland. Well, guess what,...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
You might have thought that it is only the red-top tabloid press which regards any European with an unfamiliar surname as inherently ridiculous. If so, you would be wrong. Even the more serious BBC political programmes, such as Newsnight, have been cracking juvenile jokes over the identity of the new President of the European Council, Herman van Rompuy. Rumpy-pumpy! Rumplestiltskin! Cue smirks in...
fivethirtyeight (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
When the Lisbon treaty comes into force on December 1st, the European Union will have achieved two of its key goals of the last decade -- improved coherance and a stronger common foreign policy. Among many other things, the Treaty brings major changes to two top posts in the EU, a permanent President of the European Council (rather than 6 month rotating among the heads of states/governments in the...
Walls Come Tumbling Down (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
Following my participation in the ‘Europe & Islam; whose identity crisis'’ debate at the European Parliament in Brussels last Thursday (19th November 2009), I’m pasting below the report from the British Council’s website. To view the original page, please click here: Europe has, according to the Pew Forum, about 38 million Muslims – about five percent [...]
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
KABUL — Bomb attacks and a firefight killed four U.S. service members in the past 24 hours in Afghanistan, NATO forces said Monday. Three of the Americans died in southern Afghanistan on Sunday, the military force said in a statement. Two of them were killed in a bomb attack and the third in a separate firefight. The military said the fourth U.S. service member died in the east Monday in a bomb...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
BRUSSELS -- For 23 torturous years, Rom Houben says he lay trapped in his paralyzed body, aware of what was going on around him but unable to tell anyone or even cry out.
Bulgarian Elections (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago
At the 10th Anniversary Awards ceremony in the European Parliament in Brussels, the VIP guests discussed Debating Europe Nationally. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3
The Australian (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
CHOICES for president and foreign affairs raise questions on how the EU operates. THE appointments of Catherine Ashton representative for foreign affairs and security and that of Herman Van Rompuy as President of the European Council are an insult to European democracy.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
BRUSSELS -- A mother says her son has emerged from what doctors thought was a vegetative state to say he was fully conscious for 23 years but could not respond because he was paralyzed.
Bulgarian Elections (Free subscription) | 19 hours ago
It’s a question set to cause bitter disputes at pub table quizzes, given the variety of plausible answers. EU Leaders have chosen Herman Van Rompuy as the first permanent president of the European Council. So will he be the boss in Brussels? Well, the new foreign affairs position – handed to the UK’s Catherine Ashton – could [...]
Not a sheep (Free subscription) | 20 hours ago
Rumours abound that the quiet, unassuming Herman Van Rompuy, the first permanent president of the European Council, is not the nonentity that the MSM seem to be suggesting he is. Rather he has form as a proponent of EU taxation and it seems that this source of central EU revenue will come via a combination of CO2 taxation an a form of Tobin tax. Thus a trade body reliant on its members for its income...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 20 hours ago
In a surprisingly quick compromise, European Union leaders have named Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy and Catherine Ashton as EU president and foreign policy chief.
Israel Matzav (Free subscription) | yesterday
The European Union has chosen its leadership for the first time under its new constitution. Belgium’s prime minister, Herman Van Rompuy, was chosen as the bloc’s president and Catherine Ashton, the European commissioner for trade, who is British, was chosen as foreign policy chief. Max Boot points out that the choice of these two relative unknowns shows that the European Union is nothing...
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bharatbook | 10/28/2009
Bharatbook.com included a new report on "Baby food in Belgium to 2012" which gives future direction of the baby food market in Belgium with reliable historical data and full five year forecasting. Baby food in Belgium to 2012 This databook is a detailed information resource covering all the key data points on Baby food in Belgium. It includes comprehensive value volume segmentation and market share
patrickguillard | 09/02/2009
On 19 June 2009 a workshop on the rules on Cohesion Policy investments in energy efficiency and renewable energies in the residential sector was organised in Brussels by the European Commission.
steven_whittaker | 08/25/2009
Watch Anderlecht vs Lyon live at LivefootballStreams from The Champions League Qualifying Round – 2nd Leg. It will take one of the biggest turn-arounds in football history for RSCA to qualify with a 5-1 hammering in the 1st leg in France. Anderlecht would need to win by 4 goals at least to knock out Lyonnais at the Constant Vanden Stock Stadium in Brussels. The home side must face this daunting task...
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