Brussels,officially the Brussels-Capital Region,is a region of Belgium comprising 19 municipalities,including the City of Brussels,which is the capital of Belgium. The Brussels-Capital Region is located in the central portion of the country and is a part of both the French Community of Belgium and the Flemish Community,but is separate from the Flemish Region and the Walloon Region.
Groen,founded as Agalev,is a green Flemish political party in Belgium. Its French-speaking equivalent is Ecolo;the two parties maintain close relations with each other.
Ecolo,officially Écologistes Confédérés pour l'organisation de luttes originales is a French-speaking political party in Belgium based on green politics. The party is active in Wallonia,the Brussels-Capital Region,and the German-speaking Community of Belgium.
The Vrije Universiteit Brussel is a Dutch and English-speaking research university located in Brussels,Belgium. It has four campuses:Brussels Humanities,Science and Engineering Campus,Brussels Health Campus,Brussels Technology Campus and Brussels Photonics Campus.
Flemish political parties operate in the whole Flemish Community,which covers the unilingual Flemish Region and the bilingual Brussels-Capital Region. In the latter,they compete with French-speaking parties that all also operate in Wallonia. There are very few parties that operate on a national level in Belgium. Flanders generally tends to vote for right-wing,conservative parties,whereas in French-speaking Belgium the socialist party is usually the most successful one.
Pascal Smet is a Belgian politician,member of Vooruit.
The Belgian provincial,municipal and district elections of 2006 took place on Sunday 8 October 2006. The electors have elected the municipal councillors of 589 cities and towns as well as the ten provincial councils. The voters in the town of Antwerp have also been able to vote for the city's district councils. In seven Flemish municipalities with a special language statute and in the Walloon municipality of Comines-Warneton the aldermen and the members of the OCMW/CPAS council have also been directly elected.
Lesbian,gay,bisexual,transgender (LGBT) rights in Belgium are seen as some of the most progressive in Europe and the world. In 2021,ILGA-Europe ranked Belgium as second in the European Union for LGBT rights protection,behind Malta.
The Francization of Brussels refers to the evolution,over the past two centuries,of this historically Dutch-speaking city into one where French has become the majority language and lingua franca. The main cause of this transition was the rapid,yet non-compulsory assimilation of the Flemish population,amplified by immigration from France and Wallonia.
Els,Baroness Witte is a Belgian historian. She was professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and honorary rector of the university. Els Witte was the first female rector of a Belgian university. She was a member of the Coudenberg group,a Belgian federalist think tank.
Tinne Van der Straeten is a Belgian politician who has been serving as Minister of Energy in the De Croo Government since October 2020. She is a member of the Groen party. She previously served in the Chamber of Representatives for Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde from 2007 to 2010 and later for Brussels from 2019 until 2020,when she resigned to become energy minister.
Meyrem Almaci is a Belgian politician from Flanders and member of the ecological party Groen. On 10 June 2007,she was elected to the Belgian Chamber of Representatives for the first time. She was re-elected in 2010 and in 2014 when she also became the president of Groen. In 2019 she left the Belgian parliament and was elected in the Flemish Parliament.
Wouter Van Besien is a Belgian politician. From 25 October 2009 until 15 November 2014,he was the chairman of the ecologist party Groen.
Nadia Sminate is a Belgian politician and is affiliated to the N-VA. She was elected as a member of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives in 2010.
The Belgian provincial,municipal and district elections of 2012 took place on 14 October. As with the previous 2006 elections,these are no longer organised by the Belgian federal state but instead by the respective regions:
The Michel I Government was the Federal Government of Belgium formed following the 2014 Belgian government formation and sworn in on 11 October 2014. The administration was a centre-right coalition of the New Flemish Alliance (N-VA),the Christian Democratic and Flemish (CD&V),the Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats and the Reformist Movement (MR). The prime minister was Charles Michel. The government had an agenda of socio-economic reforms,especially through austerity measures,with its priorities being improving Belgium's economic competitiveness and reducing unemployment. It fell in December 2018 over the Global Compact for Migration.
Federal elections were held in Belgium on 26 May 2019,alongside the country's European and regional elections. All 150 members of the Chamber of Representatives were elected from eleven multi-member constituencies.
The Belgian provincial,municipal and district elections of 2018 took place on Sunday 14 October 2018. They are organised by the respective regions:
Vlaams-Brusselse Media,branded as BRUZZ is a public broadcaster which serves the Flemish Community in Brussels. Its counterpart to the French-speaking Community in Brussels is BX1. It is headquartered at Radio House in Ixelles.
The Poelaert Elevators,in popular language Elevators of the Marolles is a public elevator in the Marolles/Marollen district of Brussels,Belgium. It connects the lower and upper town at the Square Breughel l'Ancien/Breughel de Oudeplein with the Place Poelaert/Poelaertplein,in the vicinity of the Palace of Justice. The elevator consists of two independent elevators,hence the plural elevators sometimes used for its name.
