Belgium News

On Nov. 25, in the early afternoon, the new Belgian Prime Minister Yves Leterme was sworn in by King Albert II at the king's palace in Laken.

An Opel plant in Belgium faces an uncertain future as General Motors Co. moves to restructure its European operation, a drive expected to cost some 9,000 jobs across the continent, a top executive said Wednesday.

The European Union said on Tuesday that it plans to train hundreds of Somali security forces and possibly expand its anti-piracy mission off Somalia 's coast, in an effort to bring stability to the war-torn Horn of Africa nation.

Imagine this. You are lying in a hospital bed, in a coma, apparently dead to what is happening around you.

Yves Leterme is to be Belgium's new prime minister. The five parties in the ruling coalition agreed the move during talks mediated by former prime minister Wilfried Martens.

Often compared to a fairy tale, Bruges makes for a fantasy-like European getaway.

Lesbian beer aficionados will tell you, one must worship all things Belgian. The little country has a big business with its 125 breweries, over 800 types of beer and approximately 8700 one-offs to choose from.

Belgium Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy was chosen as EU's first full-time president at a special summit Thursday night in Brussels.

A man thought by doctors to be in a vegetative state for 23 years was actually conscious the whole time, it was revealed last night.

Incoming EU president Herman Van Rompuy kept a low profile Friday as the 27-nation bloc's leaders faced flak for picking him and a little-known British peer to lead a revamped Europe on the world stage.

BRUSSELS : Belgian ex-premier Wilfried Martens met party leaders Saturday as he began a royal commission to organise a smooth political transition after current PM Herman Van Rompuy was named as EU president.

European Union leaders picked Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy as the first president of the 27-nation bloc and Britaina s Catherine Ashton as chief diplomat, appointing a team unlikely to overshadow national governments.

Inovio Biomedical Corporation , a leader in DNA vaccine design, development and delivery, announced today that the company's SynCon Chikungunya virus DNA vaccine induced protective neutralizing antibody responses in a preclinical non-human primate model.

Comment about "Belgium's PM Herman Van Rompuy is first President of EU" Phone Name Comment 0 Belgium's PM Herman Van Rompuy is first President of EU AFP Herman Van Rompuy More pensive poet than political pit-bull, Herman Van Rompuy, was named the European Union's first President yesterday.

The newly appointed European Union President Herman Van Rompuy, left, poses with the EU's new foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, center, and Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, at a media conference at the European Council building in Brussels, Thursday, Nov.

Belgian prime minister Herman Van Rompuy kisses Lady Ashton after his appointment as EU president Photograph: Georges Gobet/AFP/Getty Images Herman Van Rompuy, Belgium 's centre-right prime minister, pulled off the coup of a long political career tonightby ascending to the post of president of the European Council, the new summiteering role ...

Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy assists in a ceremony in honour of the Unknown Soldier during Armistice on November 11, 2009 in Brussels, Belgium.

Online qualification for the sixth annual 1,500 + 200 buy-in Belgium Open Poker Championships being held in Casino de Namur in Belgium from Nov.

BRITAIN has terrible weather, horrible food and is full of lazy drunks - according to the BORING BELGIANS.

November 17, 2009 Leuven, Belgium And Lund, Sweden/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ThromboGenics NV and BioInvent International AB today announced positive results from a Phase I trial of their novel anti-cancer monoclonal antibody TB-403 in patients with advanced solid tumours.