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.
The Federal Government of Belgium exercises executive power in the Kingdom of Belgium. It consists of ministers and secretary of state drawn from the political parties which form the governing coalition. The federal government is led by the prime minister of Belgium,and ministers lead ministries of the government. Ministers together form the Council of Ministers,which is the supreme executive organ of the government.
Lesbian,gay,bisexual,and transgender (LGBT) rights in Belgium are regarded as some of the most progressive in Europe and the world. In 2023,ILGA-Europe ranked Belgium as second in the European Union for LGBT rights protection,behind Malta. In 2024,ILGA-Europe ranked Belgium the third highest after Malta and Iceland.
Halima Chehaima is a Belgian beauty pageant titleholder who won the title of Miss Belgium 2007. She also won the Miss International Tourism contest in 2007 in Portugal and represented Belgium in Miss World 2007 in China.
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.
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.
Tom Jozef Irène Van Grieken is a Belgian politician and author who has served as leader of Vlaams Belang since October 2014.
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,shortened to VBM and operating under the brand BRUZZ is a non-profit media company dedicated to serving the Flemish Community in Brussels. A counterpart to BX1,which caters to the French-speaking Community in Brussels,BRUZZ has its headquarters located at Radio House in Ixelles.
Sammy Mahdi is a Belgian Christian-Democrat politician,a member and the president of CD&V,who in March 2020 became a member of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives.
Barbara Pas is a Belgian politician and a member of the Chamber of Representatives for Vlaams Belang. She is also the floor leader of the party in the Chamber and serves as the spokeswoman for the VB on a federal level. Pas previously served as national chairwoman of the Vlaams Belang Jongeren.
The De Croo Government is the incumbent Federal Government of Belgium,led by Prime Minister Alexander De Croo since 1 October 2020.
Volt Belgium is a political party in Belgium. It is part of the pan-European party Volt Europa.
Louis De Jaeger is a Belgian entrepreneur,garden and landscape designer,author and award-winning filmmaker from Bruges. Together with Dirk Draulans,Steven Vromman and Mies Meulders,he founded the ByeByeGrass-campaign with which he calls upon citizens as well as the government to replace as many lawns as possible by a more sustainable alternative.
Nicole de Moor is a Belgian politician,a member of CD&V. On 28 June 2022,she became Secretary of State for Asylum and Migration in the government of Alexander De Croo.
Federal elections are scheduled to be held in Belgium on 9 June 2024. The 150 members of the Chamber of Representatives will be elected for a five-year term. European and regional elections are scheduled to take place on the same day.
Elke Van den Brandt is a Belgian green politician and a member of Groen. She has been the Minister of Mobility,Public Works,and Road Safety within the Brussels-Capital Region government since July 18,2019.
Jeremie Vaneeckhout is a Belgian politician and co-president of Groen together with Nadia Naji.
