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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.

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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.

Derbyshire show jumper Laura Newman will not face extradition to Belgium for questioning in a horse rustling case, a court has decided.

Over the weekend, someone used a fire ladder to climb to the roof of a huge warehouse in Willebroek, a Dutch-speaking municipality in the Belgian province of Antwerp, cut a hole in the roof, and made off with 3,000 to 4,000 brand new Apple iPhones, according to reports in the Belgian press.

The famous Belgium pianist, Charles Loos, will perform at the European Music Festival in Hanoi on November 26 and Ho Chi Minh City on November 28.

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Five years after first meeting at Puah restaurant in Jaffa - when he was a waiter and she a diner - they sit at a quiet table in the same eatery, gazing tenderly at each other.

According to the great paradigms of immunology, asthma , an allergic disease of the respiratory system, should always develop upon exposure to airborne antigens that are constantly being inhaled.

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Featured Article Main Category: Respiratory / Asthma Also Included In: Immune System / Vaccines ; Allergy ; Veterinary Article Date: 10 Nov 2009 - 2:00 PST Researchers in Belgium have discovered that a type of immune cell previously not well understood helped mice from developing an allergic reaction to certain airborne particles that can trigger ...

In a Thursday March 5, 2009 photo, Anheuser-Busch InBev logo is seen at the brewery headquarters in... In a Thursday March 5, 2009 photo, Anheuser-Busch InBev logo is seen at the brewery headquarters in Leuven, Belgium, after announcing the Full Year 2008 financial results.

For the first time since World War I, the leaders of Germany and France held a joint ceremony on Wednesday to commemorate the end of the conflict, saying it is now time to celebrate their countries' reconciliation and friendship.