Gaston François Marie, viscount Eyskens was a Christian democratic politician and Prime Minister of Belgium. He was also an economist and member of the Belgian Christian Social Party (CVP-PSC).
The Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats is a Flemish conservative-liberal political party in Belgium.
This article gives an overview of liberalism in Belgium. Liberalism was a dominant force since the Belgian independence from the Netherlands. It is limited to liberal parties with substantial support, mainly proved by having had a representation in parliament. The sign ⇒ denotes another party in that scheme. For inclusion in this scheme it is not necessary that parties labeled themselves as a liberal party.
Jules Edouard Xavier Malou was a Belgian statesman, a leader of the clerical party.
The Catholic Party was a Belgian political party established in 1869 as the Confessional Catholic Party.
Jean (Jan) Marie Joseph, Baron Van Houtte was a Belgian politician who served as Prime Minister of Belgium from 1952 to 1954.
The Liberal Party was a Belgian political party that existed from 1846 until 1961, when it became the Party for Freedom and Progress, Partij voor Vrijheid en Vooruitgang/Parti de la Liberté et du Progrès or PVV-PLP, under the leadership of Omer Vanaudenhove.
The Christian Social Party (PSC-CVP) was a Christian-democratic political party in Belgium that existed from 1945 until 1968, when it split along linguistic lines.
This is the list of Belgian ministers of Justice. The minister of justice is responsible for the Federal Public Service Justice.
The royal question was a major political crisis in Belgium that lasted from 1945 to 1951, coming to a head between March and August 1950. The "question" at stake surrounded whether King Leopold III could return to the country and resume his constitutional role amid allegations that his actions during World War II had been contrary to the provisions of the Belgian Constitution. It was eventually resolved by the abdication of Leopold in favour of his son Baudouin in 1951.
The Belgo-Congolese Round Table Conference was a meeting organized in two parts in 1960 in Brussels between on the one side representatives of the Congolese political class and chiefs and on the other side Belgian political and business leaders. The round table meetings led to the adoption of sixteen resolutions on the future of the Belgian Congo and its institutional reforms. With a broad consensus, the date for independence was set on June 30, 1960.
Amid the German invasion of Belgium, the Belgian government of Prime Minister Charles de Broqueville withdrew to Sainte-Adresse, a seaside resort town near Le Havre, in Seine-Inférieure, France in October 1914 where it remained for much of World War I. Although much of Belgium was occupied, a small portion of territory in the north-west of the country remained under Belgian control throughout the conflict and, rather than follow the government into France, King Albert I established his own headquarters in the Belgian town of Veurne from where he continued to command the Belgian Army on the Yser Front.
The following lists events that happened during 1884 in the Kingdom of Belgium.
Events in the year 1895 in Belgium.
Events in the year 1899 in Belgium.
The following lists events that happened during 1907 in the Kingdom of Belgium.
The following lists events that happened during 1878 in the Kingdom of Belgium.
An orange–blue coalition is a type of governing coalition in Belgian politics that brings together Liberal parties and Christian democratic/humanist political parties. These coalitions are also termed Blue–Roman, corresponding to the colors of the liberal parties, and the Roman of the Roman Catholic Church for the Christian Democrats.
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