Frank Ignace Georgette Vandenbroucke is a Belgian-Flemish academic and politician of Vooruit who has been serving as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Health and Social Affairs in the government of Prime Minister Alexander De Croo since 2020.
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.
Alfons "Fons" Borginon is a Belgian politician and lawyer. He was a member of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives between 1995 and 2007. Borginon was the last chairman of the Volksunie and Flemish Liberals and Democrats (VLD) floor leader from 2006 until the general election of 2007. He was also granted knighthood in the Belgian Order of Leopold. He is married to Kristin Ex and father of Hendrik,Irene and Margreet.
The Flemish Diamond is the Flemish reference to a network of four metropolitan areas in Belgium,three of which are in the central provinces of Flanders,together with the Brussels-Capital Region. It consists of four agglomerations which form the four corners of an abstract diamond shape:Brussels,Ghent,Antwerp and Leuven.
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.
Brugge railway station is the main railway station in Bruges,West Flanders,Belgium. The station opened on 12 August 1838 on railway lines 50A,51 and 66. The current building has been in use since 1939. The station is one of the busiest in Belgium. The train services are operated by the National Railway Company of Belgium (NMBS/SNCB).
Events from the year 2007 in Belgium
Kortrijk railway station is the main railway station in Kortrijk,West Flanders,Belgium. The station was first inaugurated on 22 September 1839. With around 10,000 passengers per day,Kortrijk is the fifteenth-busiest railway station in Belgium,and the second in West Flanders. It is operated by the National Railway Company of Belgium (NMBS/SNCB).
Kortrijk,sometimes known in English as Courtrai or Courtray,is a Belgian city and municipality in the Flemish province of West Flanders.
Alexander De Croo is a Belgian politician and businessman who has served as the prime minister of Belgium since October 2020.
The Di Rupo Government was the federal cabinet of Belgium sworn in on 6 December 2011,after a record-breaking 541 days of negotiations following the June 2010 elections. The government included social democrats (sp.a/PS),Christian democrats (CD&V/cdH) and liberals,respectively of the Dutch and French language groups. The government notably excluded the New Flemish Alliance (N-VA),the Flemish nationalist party which achieved a plurality and became the largest party. Its absence,together with the unwillingness of Open Vld to enter into an eight-party coalition that included the green parties,caused the government coalition to lack a majority in the Dutch language group. It was the first time that the Belgian prime minister had been openly gay,as Di Rupo became the world's first male openly gay head of government. Elio Di Rupo also became the first native French-speaking prime minister since 1979 and the first prime minister from Wallonia since 1974 and first socialist prime minister since 1974.
Koen Geens is a Belgian jurist and politician of the Christian Democratic and Flemish (CD&V) who served as the Minister of Justice and as Deputy Prime Minister in the governments of Prime Ministers Charles Michel and Sophie Wilmès.
The Council of Ministers is the supreme executive organ of the Federal Government of the Kingdom of Belgium. It is a cabinet composed of the Prime Minister,who leads it,and up to fourteen senior ministers. Federal secretaries of state are members of the government,but not part of the Council. The King of the Belgians historically presided over the Council,but this has not happened since 1957. The Council of Ministers formally became a permanent policy structure with the constitutional revision of 1970.
The Belgian provincial,municipal and district elections of 2018 took place on Sunday 14 October 2018. They are organised by the respective regions:
Shortly after protests seeking justice for George Floyd,an African-American who was murdered during a police arrest,began in the United States,some people in Belgium protested to show solidarity with Americans protestors and to demonstrate against issues with police or racism. Vigils and protests of up to thousands of participants took place nationwide.
The De Croo Government is the incumbent Federal Government of Belgium,led by Prime Minister Alexander De Croo since 1 October 2020.
The 2023 Brussels shooting was an Islamist terrorist attack carried out at about 19:15 (CEST) on 16 October when Abdesalem Lassoued,a 45-year-old Tunisian living illegally in Brussels,Belgium,opened fire on Swedish football supporters at the intersection of two boulevards just off the Square Sainctelette,leaving two dead and one injured. The victims were on their way to a football match at the King Baudouin Stadium.
Paul Van Tigchelt is a Belgian politician from Open VLD who has been serving as the Federal Minister of Justice and the North Sea in the government of Prime Minister Alexander De Croo since 22 October 2023.
