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	Belgium: A managed democracy
		According to Belgian law, parties – in order to be able to contest the elections – either need the signatures of 5 members of parliament or have to collect 5,000 signatures of people who are entitled to vote.
		In the last elections, the green party, Ecolo, was hit by an electoral revolt against its role in government.
		This is going to have the opposite effect, as it is seen by a large layer of the population as an attempt by the main politicians to protect their interests.
	www.socialistworld.net /eng/2004/04/20belgium.html (674 words)

	Belgian regional elections, 2004 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		On June 13, 2004, regional elections were held in Belgium, to choose representatives in the regional councils of Flanders, Wallonia, Brussels and the German-speaking Community of Belgium.
		In the aftermath of the elections, Elio di Rupo (PS) was selected to form a Walloon regional government.
		In the aftermath of the elections, Charles Picqué (PS) was selected to form a Brussels regional government.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Belgian_regional_elections,_2004 (262 words)

	Chad
		During the year, the security situation in the east grew increasingly tenuous due to a conflict in the Darfur region in Sudan near the country's border, and the Government expressed its concerns over the bandits, Sudanese militias, and growing numbers of rebels that were operating in the east.
		The 2002 legislative election, in which President Deby's MPS party won a majority of National Assembly seats, was largely determined in advance and resulted in inaccurate registered voter lists, due primarily to a faulty electoral census that the Government refused to revise.
		Although most ethnic groups were affiliated with one of two regional and cultural traditions--Arab and Saharan/Sahelian-zone Muslims in the north, center, and east; and Sudanian-zone Christian or animist groups in the south--migrations in response to urbanization and desertification resulted in the integration of these groups in some areas of the country.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2004/41595.htm (0 words)

	EIRO
		In October 2004, the Belgian Prime Minister invited the social partners to participate in a conference on the end of career, highlighting the increasing attention that is being paid to early retirement and related issues.
		During 2004, the Belgian government has been drawing up new legislation aimed at tackling bogusself-employment, whereby workers are registered as self-employed - either from their own choice or at the request of an employer - but in practice have a subordinate employment status.
		In March 2004, the Belgian government announced increases in a number of social security benefits, including the guaranteed income for the elderly, pensions and invalidity allowances related to accidents at work and occupational illness, and parental leave allowances.
	www.eiro.eurofound.ie /2004/country/belgium.html (0 words)

	Belgium
		The federal Government devolved responsibility for the construction and maintenance of mosques to the regional governments in 2003, but, at the end of the period covered by this report, none of the regional governments had passed the necessary implementing legislation.
		Some courts in the Flanders region have stipulated, in the context of child custody proceedings and as a condition of granting visitation rights, that a noncustodial parent who is a member of Jehovah's Witnesses may not expose his or her children to the teachings or lifestyle of that religious group during visits.
		An 11-year-old Moroccan and two Belgians, ages 8 and 16, were arrested and charged with racism-motivated assault and battery by a court for youthful offenders; they were required to apologize to the victim andpay damages.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/irf/2004/35444.htm (0 words)

	Belgian parliament OKs bill granting voting rights to immigrants \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		The bill, which has cleared the Senate, means foreigners can vote in municipal elections starting in 2006, if they have lived in Belgium for at least five years.
		Seeking to reverse dropping popularity ahead of regional elections this spring, the Liberal Democrats are trying to appeal to more conservative voters in the Dutch-speaking northern half of Belgium by taking a harder line on immigrant issues.
		Under EU laws, citizens of the 15 member nations have the right to vote and run for office in their country of residence for local and European Parliament elections.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20040221/news_1n21belgium.html (0 words)

	Annan's Congo burden: Deja vu - The Washington Times: Commentary - August 23, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Belgian colonial legacy consisted of 16 university graduates and 136 with a high-school diploma.
		Belgian wives and nuns were raped, stores looted, homes burned or occupied.
		Belgian forces returned to restore peace only to be told by newly arrived all-African U.N. forces to butt out.
	washingtontimes.com /commentary/20040822-104445-2614r.htm (0 words)

	Islam & Muslims in Europe *)
		Belgian police raided 20 houses in Antwerp, Brussels and Tongres and arrested a number of men suspected of links with Islamic extremist terror groups, the federal prosecutor's office has confirmed.
		Nizar Trabelsi, Amor Sliti, Tarek Maaroufi and six other radical Islamists sentenced in September 2003 by the court in Brussels for preparing the attack on the American base in Kleine-Brogel (in the region of Limbourg, Belgium) and of being involved in the murder of an Afghan opposition leader in 2001, went on appeal.
		The Belgian Parliament's approval of the new voting law, marks the end of a long and often bitter debate that once again saw the country divided along linguistic lines.
	euro-islam.info /pages/news_belgium_apr04.html (0 words)

	IDA - BE: E-elections 2004: Belgium's e-voting operations considered (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		About 44% of Belgian registered voters cast their vote electronically on the June 13 European and regional elections, an experience considered a success by the authorities.
		As in the previous e-enabled election of May 2003, electronic voting took place exclusively at the polling stations through a system made up of a computer unit including a card-reading device, a screen and an optical pen.
		elections held in Belgium in May 2003, when serious delays occurred in voting operations because of the limited number of computer booths available, a series of computer or power failures, the complexity of the e-voting systems and the lack of knowledge of most voters.
	europa.eu.int /idabc/de/document/2634/601 (0 words)

	Chad - Amnesty International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Several hundred Chadian soldiers, deployed in the CAR as part of a regional peace-keeping force, were involved in human rights violations, including summary executions of alleged looters, and looting.
		Belgian and Chadian courts continued judicial investigations into human rights violations including “crimes of torture, murder and enforced disappearance” allegedly committed by former President Habré and others.
		Following the killing of Brahim Selguet at a gathering of opposition supporters awaiting presidential election results in May 2001, and the wounding of several women in a peaceful protest about the elections in June 2001, lawyer Jacqueline Moudeïna, herself seriously wounded, and other victims had lodged the claim with the support of human rights groups.
	web.amnesty.org /report2004/tcd-summary-eng (0 words)

	Center for Strategic Decision Research, Peter Struck, Michele Alliot-Marie, General George Joulwan, SACEUR, General ...
		Enhancing regional stability and defusing and managing regional crises and conflicts constitute a first-class strategic challenge.
		The adoption of the constitution has paved the way for presidential elections and the first free and general elections in September of 2004.
		In April 2004 the Berlin Conference initiated the political process of establishing sovereignty for Afghanistan.
	www.csdr.org /2004book/PeterStruckKeynote.htm (4039 words)

	The International Criminal Court and Congo: Examining the Possibilities - International Justice - Global Policy Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The preference for a guarded approach towards justice is predicated at least in part on the hope that elections will further reinforce the current sense of stability and that the state will then be ready to prosecute those responsible for the worst abuses.
		To put justice on the backburner in the hope that these elections will result in increased stability may be too great a sacrifice relative to the likelihood of the payoff.
		This dilemma between peace and justice, although of course not specific to the Congolese conflict, is one last illustration of the gap that so often exists between the opinions of the Congolese population in evaluating the country’s realities and those of foreign observers.
	www.globalpolicy.org /intljustice/icc/2004/1004examine.htm (0 words)

	Belgium: right-wing Vlaams Blok benefits from hostility to government
		Regional and European elections on June 13 have dealt a serious blow to Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt.
		At the regional election, VB took nearly a quarter of the votes in Flanders.
		As soon as the election results were posted, CD-V leader Yves Leterme stated adamantly that he would not be entering into any coalition with VB and that he would maintain the cordon sanitaire.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2004/jun2004/belg-j30_prn.shtml (1200 words)

	IDABC - BE: Belgian Government publishes source code of e-voting soft (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Belgian Ministry of the Interior has made the source code of the Digivote and Jites e-voting software publicly available after the June 13 European and regional elections.
		In order to promote the transparency of the Belgian e-voting processes, the Federal Government has once again made the source code of the Digivote and Jites e-voting software available to the general public, but only after the end of the electoral operations of 13 June 2004.
		For instance, a report released by the Free University of Brussels a few days before the 13 June elections denounced the fact that the whole e-voting process in Belgium is not transparent because it is controlled by two companies.
	europa.eu.int /idabc/en/document/3141/360 (0 words)

	People's Daily Online -- Incumbent Belgian PM concedes defeat in general elections
		Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt conceded defeat in Sunday's parliamentary elections after preliminary results showed his Flemish Liberals (Open VLD) was lagging behind the Flemish Christian Democrats (CD&V).
		Traditionally, the party winning the most votes in Flanders, where 60 percent of Belgians live, is the biggest party in parliament and has the first try at forging a coalition.
		The Belgian Parliament consists of a Senate and a House of Representatives.
	english.people.com.cn /200706/11/eng20070611_382925.html (578 words)

	DHL Crisis Could Scare Off Investors - Belgian PM
		Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt said on Monday his country's appeal to foreign investment hung in the balance after weeks of political haggling over global courier DHL's plans to expand at Brussels Airport.
		The deadlock highlights the difficulty of negotiating in a linguistically divided country with relatively autonomous regional governments which often share powers.
		The issue is further complicated by different political parties belonging to either the opposition or government in one region, and vice versa on the federal level.
	news.airwise.com /stories/2004/09/1096280044.html (0 words)

	U.S.: New Technology Touted As Way Ahead For Elections, But Critics Worry - RADIO FREE EUROPE / RADIO LIBERTY
		The Dutch have voted electronic-voting machines for years, and about half of Belgian voters cast their ballot electronically in the June regional and European elections.
		Activists in the United States have cited numerous examples of strange results or errors in elections in various states that used electronic voting machines.
		I personally am not able to say if that kind of election is going to be fair or not.
	www.rferl.org /featuresarticle/2004/09/3db0496f-8f7f-4b35-967b-37ef06c1a55b.html (1110 words)

	Belgian Cabinet To Meet Regions In DHL Crisis
		The Flemish regional government favors DHL's plans to more than double its capacity because of the jobs it would create, but its Brussels counterpart fears more night flights would aggravate the city's noise pollution.
		The deadlock highlights the difficulty of negotiating in a linguistically divided country with relatively autonomous regional governments.
		The dispute threatens to paralyse the government, raising the prospect of early elections.
	news.airwise.com /stories/2004/09/1096062885.html (0 words)

	SANTORO v. ITALY - 36681/97 [2004] ECHR 309 (1 July 2004)
		Regional laws are adopted by the regional councils (Article 121 § 2 of the Constitution).
		47. The applicant complained that he was disenfranchised for a longer period than was lawful and that, as a result, he was prevented from voting in the elections of the regional council of 23 April 1995 and in the parliamentary elections of 21 April 1996.
		In any case, as far as the latter elections are concerned, the Court recalls its finding that the prolongation of the special police supervision after 2 May 1995 was neither in accordance with law nor necessary (see paragraph 46 above).
	www.worldlii.org /eu/cases/ECHR/2004/309.html (0 words)

	UN Chronicle \| Racism and Xenophobia in Europe: Stemming the Rising Tide
		In June 2004, 732 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) were elected by 350 million voters in what was one of the world’s largest-ever elections.
		Yet its practice is threatened by the seductive appeal of the new right-wing parties’ innumerate policies on lower taxes and higher public services, while their narrow nationalism strikes a chord with areas of the general public, drip-fed on a tabloid diet of xenophobia.
		For example, the Belgian Vlaams Blok, France’s Front National (FN), the Italian Alleanza Nazionale, and the British National Party (BNP) had all performed well at recent local and regional elections, bettering political predictions and in some cases their own expectations.
	www.un.org /Pubs/chronicle/2004/issue4/0404p32.html (0 words)

	Democratic Republic Of Congo, Landmine Monitor Report 2004
		In 2004 it was reported that a draft law had been approved by the Council of Ministers, but had yet to be adopted by Parliament.
		Military officials said that regional military commanders appointed in the unified national Army were instructed to report on stockpiles and mine-affected areas before December 2003.
		On 19 February 2004, one casualty was reported during demining activities by the local association of ex-combatants, Zanga-Zanga.
	www.icbl.org /lm/2004/dem_congo (0 words)

	Calls for ban on headscarves trigger row in Belgium -DAWN - International; 14 January, 2004
		The squabble has split many leading members of the Belgian government, marking the beginning of what looks set to be a difficult New Year for the ruling coalition led by Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt.
		Critics say the furore over the headscarf is linked to upcoming regional and European parliament elections this summer, with leading politicians deliberately using dangerous anti-immigrant and anti-Islamic rhetoric to win votes.
		The planned French law, which is due to be debated in parliament shortly, has already stirred controversy in France and split leaders of the country's five million Muslims.
	www.dawn.com /2004/01/14/int11.htm (0 words)

	Rwanda - Amnesty International
		The presidential election was held on 25 August and parliamentary elections between 29 September and 2 October.
		The tribunals were plagued by inaction by magistrates and community members, the unwillingness of communities to provide information and public dissatisfaction that human rights abuses by members of the former armed opposition group, the RPF, were excluded from their consideration.
		Despite the Belgian parliament’s repeal of its legislation conferring universal jurisdiction on Belgian courts, a number of genocide cases that had already begun were pending before the courts.
	web.amnesty.org /report2004/rwa-summary-eng (0 words)

	Elections possible in 2005, UN official says (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		NAIROBI, 14 Jan 2004 (IRIN) - Despite delays in the legislature, general elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) could still be held in 2005 in line with last year's all-inclusive peace agreement that ended nearly five years of war in the central African country, a high-ranking UN official said on Monday.
		"Most of the laws governing the conduct of elections remain to be enacted," William Swing, head of the UN Mission in the DRC (MONUC), said.
		He said that the question of refugees and internally displaced people, the presence of foreign armed groups in the DRC and the demobilisation of local armed groups were obstacles that must be overcome if proper elections were to be held.
	www.irinnews.org /print.asp?ReportID=38912 (0 words)

	Putin doubts date of the elections, Allawi confirms it will be made in phases
		Allawi, however, had stressed in an interview made with a Belgian daily the possibility of making the elections along 15 or 20 days, calling on all the Iraqis with all their sects to take part in it.
		In a remarkable development, the two Sunni Iraqi democratic and national Islamic parties expressed their readiness to participate in the elections after they were among other 17 parties who had called for the postponement of the elections.
		Election Canada commission which supervises the federal elections in Canada said the meeting will be held in Ottawa.
	www.arabicnews.com /ansub/Daily/Day/041208/2004120811.html (0 words)

	Cries of manipulation fill Spain's media
		Early in the administration of the Popular Party, Martínez Soler was abruptly fired as a television correspondent for the RTVE state network.
		He suspects that he had infuriated Aznar with an aggressive interview during his election campaign that included a flip reference to the party's right wing as "Jurassic Park." The network said that his job had been eliminated because of budget cutbacks.
		The foreign journalists association in Madrid has lodged a complaint with the government about the phone calls to journalists that laid blame for the attacks on ETA when the situation was in flux.
	www.iht.com /articles/2004/03/23/a11_17.php (0 words)

	Burundi Post
		Efforts by industrialized countries to train troops from Africa in peacekeeping are welcome but cannot substitute for those nations deploying their own forces to the co...
		A summit of the Great Lakes Regional Initiative on Burundi endorsed on Friday the extension of the country's transitional period, and the holding of elections later than 1 November.
		BBC News Elections in Burundi, scheduled under a peace accord to take place by 1 November after years of civil war, hav...
	archive.wn.com /2004/10/18/1400/burundi (0 words)

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