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1 The National Bank of Belgium still exists but many functions have been taken over by the ECB. The National Bank of Belgium (NBB; Dutch: Nationale Bank van België, French: Banque nationale de Belgique, German: Belgische Nationalbank) is the Belgian member of the Eurosystem. It was established by a law of 5 May 1850 and has been the monetary ...
Politics of Belgium. The prime minister of Belgium (Dutch: Eerste minister van België; French: Premier ministre de Belgique; ‹See Tfd› German: Premierminister von Belgien) or the premier of Belgium is the head of the federal government in the Kingdom of Belgium. Although leaders of Government (French: Chefs de Cabinet) had been appointed ...
11 May – Front Démocratique des Francophones political party founded. 11 October – Municipal elections. 27 October – Hostage crisis begins in Stanleyville, Republic of the Congo. 24 November – Operation Dragon Rouge ends hostage crisis in Stanleyville.
The Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts (Dutch: Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten, or KVAB) is an independent learned society of science and arts of the Flemish Community in Belgium. [2] It is one of Belgium's numerous academies and traces its origin to 1772 when the Imperial and Royal ...
The Sorrow of Belgium (Dutch: Het verdriet van België) is a 1983 novel by the Belgian author Hugo Claus (1929–2008). The book, widely considered Claus's most important work and "the most important Dutch-language novel of the twentieth century", [1] is a Bildungsroman which explores themes around politics and growing up in Flanders around World War II.
Faceted search augments lexical search with a faceted navigation system, allowing users to narrow results by applying filters based on a faceted classification of the items. [1] It is a parametric search technique. [2] A faceted classification system classifies each information element along multiple explicit dimensions, facets, enabling the ...
Since 1991, Belgium practises absolute primogeniture among the descendants of King Albert II (then Prince of Liège). Descendants of earlier monarchs and princes are only eligible to succeed if male and descended from King Leopold I in male-line (i.e. according to agnatic primogeniture), meaning that descendants of all Belgian princesses not descended from Albert II are barred from the throne.
Alinghi is 2-5 and Orient Express 1-6. The French will need to beat the British on Sunday and hope the Swiss lose to the Italians to pull level on points and force a single-race tiebreaker.