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	Belgium (04/07)
		Flemish Parliament and government for regional and community affairs; Walloon Regional Parliament and government for Walloon regional affairs; Francophone Community Parliament and government for Francophone community affairs; Brussels Regional Parliament and government for Brussels regional affairs; and German-language Community Parliament and government for community affairs.
		In 1970, Flemish and Francophone cultural councils were established with authority in matters of language and culture for the two-language groups.
		Consequently, elections are a contest among Flemish parties in Dutch-speaking Flanders and Francophone parties in Wallonia.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/2874.htm (5717 words)

	Socialist Party - Different - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The SP.A is part of the current federal coalition of Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt containing four liberal and socialist parties from the north and the south of the country.
		Although they won more seats in comparison to the Flemish elections of 1999, their percentage of the vote compared to the successful 2003 federal elections was considerably down.
		The party was shortly led by Caroline Gennez, after former president Steve Stevaert left to become governor of Limburg.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Socialist_Party_-_Different (300 words)

	Socialist Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Socialist Party is the name of several different political parties around the world that are explicitly called Socialist though some are Social Democratic and some are not.
		See also Socialist International and list of social democratic parties.
		Switzerland - Social Democratic Party of Switzerland (also known as the Swiss Socialist Party)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Socialist_Party (180 words)

	GeographyIQ - World Atlas - Europe - Belgium - Government and Political Conditions
		Of the 21 Senators representing the communities, 10 are elected by the Flemish Parliament, 10 by the French Community Parliament, and 1 by the German-language Parliament.
		Consequently, elections are a contest among Flemish parties in Dutch-speaking Flanders and Francophone parties in Wallonia.
		A postwar phenomenon in Belgium was the emergence of linguistic-based parties, which were formed to defend the cultural, political, and economic interests of one of the linguistic groups or regions of Belgian society.
	www.geographyiq.com /countries/be/Belgium_government_summary.htm (2799 words)

	sp.a (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Socialistische Partij anders or Sociaal Progressief Alternatief (SP.a) is the Flemish socialist party in Belgium.
		Running on a joint list with the social liberal Spirit party, there share of the vote went up from 9%(of the total Belgian vote) to almost 15% and a shock second place in the number of votes.
		Takes part of the current Guy Verhofstadt's coalition containing four liberal and socialist parties from the north and the south of the country.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /SP.a.html (157 words)

	Belgium Government Information
		The largest parties in the Chamber are the Flemish Liberal Party (VLD), 23 seats; the Flemish Christian Democratic party (CDandV), 22 seats; the Francophone Socialist Party (PS), 19 seats; the Francophone Liberal Party (MR), 18 seats; the right-wing Vlaams Blok Party, 15 seats; and the Flemish Socialist Party (SP.A), 14 seats.
		Parties are allowed to place as many candidates on their "ticket" as there are seats available.
		Flemish Parliament with the Flemish Government for regional, educational, and cultural affairs; Walloon Regional Council (legislator) and government for Walloon Regional Affairs; Francophone Community Council and government for Francophone cultural and educational affairs; Brussels Regional Council and government for Brussels regional affairs; and German language Community Council and government for cultural and educational affairs.
	www.traveldocs.com /be/govern.htm (3073 words)

	Socialist Party - Simple English Wikipedia
		Socialist Party is the name of several different socialist political parties around the world.
		Puerto Rico - Socialist Party of Puerto Rico
		In some cases, those parties are more social-democrat than socialist.
	simple.wikipedia.org /wiki/Socialist_Party (222 words)

	GENERAL ELECTIONS IN BELGIUM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Belgium is ruled by a government coalition that associates the Reform Movement (MR), the Flemish Liberals and Democrats (VLD), the Walloon Socialist Party (PS), the Flemish Socialist Party (SP.A) and the finally the ecologists of Ecolo (Walloons) and Agalev (Flemish).
		The political parties that were born of these rifts comprised true entities within Belgian society; many organisations (schools, insurance companies etc) revolved around each party taking care of the party members as well as their families almost from birth to the day they died.
		On 31st March the political parties, except for the extremist movement managed to agree on the appointment of Patrick Janssens (Socialist Party) as mayor of Anvers; the Flemish Liberals and Democrats accepted this appointment in exchange for the creation of an "integrity bureau" that is responsible for managing the town correctly.
	www.robert-schuman.org /anglais/oee/belgique (1709 words)

	Socialist Party - Different biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The party is led by former pub owner Steve Stevaert.
		Although they won more seats in comparison to the Flemish elections of 2000, their percentage of the vote compared to the succesfull 2003 federal elections was considerably down.
		The reputation of party leader Steve Stevaert took a beating too.
	www.biography.ms /SP.a.html (204 words)

	National Review: Meanwhile, in Europe's Arkansas - appointment of Willy Claes as North Atlantic Treaty Organization ...
		In July 1991 the former president of the Walloon Socialist Party was murdered in broad daylight by an unidentified gunman, thought to be a hired killer from southern Italy.
		In addition, a former employee of the Flemish Socialist Party who had worked at the Brussels headquarters of the European Socialist Parties in the late 1980s revealed that Claes was a good friend of Mauro Giallombardo.
		Some of the Nordic Socialists, including Karel Van Miert, the present European commissioner, who at the time was president of the Flemish Socialist Party, had wanted to get rid of Giallombardo, but Claes had supported the Italian.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1282/is_n5_v47/ai_16764440 (1445 words)

	flandersnews.be - Socialists opt for opposition
		Mon 11/06/07 - The Flemish socialist party SP.A does not intend to provide ministers in the next Federal Government and is opting for a stint in opposition leading SP.A politicians said after a meeting of the party leadership in Brussels on Monday.
		Commenting on his party's decision to choose for a stint in opposition Mr Vande Lanotte says that a weakened SP.A would be unable to weigh enough on decisions in the federal Government.
		The Flemish socialist leader and his party's Prime Ministerial contender announced his decision to resign during a meeting of the party leadership on Monday.
	www.vrtnieuws.net /cm/flandersnews.be/News/2.728/070611_SPA (324 words)

	globalEDGE (TM) \| country insights - Government of Belgium (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Parties are allowed to place as many candidates on their "list" as there are seats available.
		They are the Flemish Liberals and Democrats (VLD) (Prime Minister Verhofstadt's party) in Flanders and the Reform Movement (MR) in Wallonia.
		Following significant gains in the 1999 general elections, the two Green parties joined a federal coalition cabinet for the first time in their history in Prime Minister Verhofstadt's first six-party coalition government.
	globaledge.msu.edu /IBRD/CountryGovt.asp?CountryID=39&RegionID=2 (2669 words)

	Index Ci-Cl
		She joined the ruling True Path Party (DYP) in 1990, was elected to Parliament in 1991 (one of eight women in the 450-seat legislative assembly), and was named economics minister in Süleyman Demirel's coalition government.
		She was elected leader of the Labour Party in December 1993 and served as leader of the opposition until the general election in November 1999, when Labour was again elected to government and she became prime minister.
		A party convention was held in January 1983 to determine support for his leadership, and he won only 66% of the delegates' votes.
	www.rulers.org /indexc3.html (8285 words)

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		Elections were held for all the seats in the House of Representatives on the normal expiry of the members' term of office.
		The four liberal and socialist parties all won votes and seats in the Senate.
		On 9 July 2003, the Liberal Party and the Socialist Party agreed to renew their coalition in government with Mr.
	www.ipu.org /parline-e/reports/2030_E.htm (515 words)

	Belgium1999 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Flemish Christian Democrat minister Luc Willems was appointed as rapporteur but failed to raise much interest in the question in the heart of his party.
		Moureaux (socialist and agnostic), chairman of the Belgian parliamentary commission against harmful and dangerous cults, has always suspected his detractors of being "friends of cults" and answered with offended feelings it was not.
		Even now the political parties and their candidates are busy defining their positions, not only in relation to a new revision of the Constitution, which may well have an effect on the Belgian Community split, but also on other aspects of society.
	www.hrwf.net /html/belgium1999.html (9464 words)

	Belgium Cooking/Eating, Travel Products and Dutch, Flemish, French, German Languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Flemish, spoken in the north, and French, spoken in the south, are the two official languages.
		Flemish is native to about 5½ million people and French to about 3½ million, with about one million Belgians are bilingual.
		Industry is concentrated mainly in the populous Flemish area in the north, although the government is encouraging reinvestment in the southern region of Walloon.
	www.worldlanguage.com /Countries/Belgium.htm (1288 words)

	Flemish Questions:Royal House
		On the other hand, Queen Paola refused for a long time to learn Dutch, which she qualified as a language for peasants, though the majority of her "subjects" has it as its mother tongue.
		Luk Rijckaert is the coordinator of the "Front for Unionistic Federalism" and the president of the "Belgian Progressive Socialists".
		On the same day, the leadership of the Flemish Socialist Party endorsed a statement from Norbert De Batselier, in which the latter made a plea for a more thorough reform of the state and for confederalism.
	home.online.no /~vlaenen/flemish_questions/quste18.html (487 words)

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		The Liberal Party and the Socialist Party registered gains in both parts of the linguistically divided country.
		The Socialists have made the biggest gains, both in terms of seats and votes.
		Together, the Liberals and Socialists have a total of 97 of the 150 seats.
	www.ipu.org /parline-e/reports/2029_E.htm (504 words)

	2001 Annual Review for Belgium
		A two-year national intersectoral agreement is normally concluded at the end of even years, while odd years (ie the first years of these two-year cycles) are marked by the widespread negotiation of mainly sectoral collective agreements and their subsequent registration.
		The unions involved were protesting against the Flemish education minister's plan to raise the early retirement age for teachers from 55 to 58, with the stated aim of addressing teacher shortages (BE0110304F); and
		The relevant parties in the healthcare system, which include the social partners, started seeking an agreement on the healthcare budget for 2002 in early September (without a result by the end of the year).
	www.eiro.eurofound.ie /2002/01/feature/be0201196f.html (2746 words)

	Belgium
		1971 The constitution was amended to safeguard cultural rights of Flemish- (Flanders in north) and French-speaking communities (Walloons in southeast).
		2000 Local elections were marked by the rise of the far-right party Vlaams Blok, which campaigned against immigration.
		2003 The Vlaamse Liberalen en Democraten (VLD; Flemish Liberals and Democrats), part of the governing coalition led by VLD prime minister Guy Verhofstadt, won the largest vote share in the Chamber of Representatives.
	www.x-stream.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/countryfacts/belgium.html (702 words)

	Stephen Pollard • Welcome to Europe, Mr President (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Unfortunately Europeans pander to socialist rhetoric, even though the original doctrine from which it is based on is little more than an unscientific theory, which lead to failed states, starvation and misery for the masses.
		Stated by: Flemish Lion on February 22, 2005 07:49 AM The left's stupid slogans always make me laugh, they are just so juvenile and pathetic.
		Stated by: Flemish Lion on February 23, 2005 08:08 AM Yes and AndyUSA you show just what kind of a pathetic sore-losers you lot truly are in the end.
	www.stephenpollard.net /002019.html (1552 words)

	EU: Political Parties
		Austrian Social Democratic Party (Aus-7); Socialist Party (Flemish.
		French Communist Party (Com-4); Independent (Com-2); Workers Fight (Com-3); Revolutionary Communist League (Com-2); Greens (Grn-9); Socialist Party (Soc-18); Citizens Movement (Soc-2); Radical Party of the Left (Soc-2); Rally for the Republic (Consv-12); Union for French Democracy (Consv-9); Rally for France and the Independence of Europe (ES-12.
		Socialist Party (Com-1); Green Left (Grn-4); Labour Party (Soc-6); People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (Lib-6); Democrats 66 (Lib-2); Christian Democratic Appeal (Consv-9); Political Reformed Party (ES-1.
	www.gis.net /~pldr/EUPP.html (495 words)

	Expatriate Online Belgium - Belgian News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Kathleen Van Brempt of the Flemish socialist party SP.A only made a suggestion.
		First, she will have to talk to her French-speaking and Brussels colleagues and federal minister Renaat Landuyt, who has the final say.
		Our Belgian news section is presented in co-operation with flandersnews.be, the English Online News Service of the Flemish Public Broadcaster VRT.
	www.expatriate-online.com /news/newsstory.cfm?story_no=1943 (219 words)

	New Low in Belgian Politics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		At the official site of the Belgian Flemish Socialist Party, the creative young socialists have designed “urinoir-stickers” to be placed in urinals—featuring a caricature of President Bush.
		Alternatively, confuse the Flemish with the Dutch, and the Walloons with the French.
		That you should go to a socialist website and claim that they speak for belgians and or Euros in general is wrong and misrepresentation.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1346191/posts (991 words)

	Belgian citizen files complaint against anti-Bush sticker
		Carnier's complaint is aimed at the Flemish Socialist Party ("SP.A"), at the Young Socialists ("Animo"), and at Valentina Gatti, a member of Animo.
		The Young Socialists may be scoundrels, but we should defend their freedom of expression, so that our own (in my case, anti-socialist) freedom of expression is not hindered.
		Quid Nimis: Pee Sticker Update : Kurt Carnier, a Belgian, was so affronted by the "pis stickers" that the socialists pasted in urinals in advance of President Bush's visit that he has filed suit against the Flemish Socialist Party and the Young Socialists ("Animo").
	lvb.net /item/881 (4493 words)

	International Task Force Update, Volume 20, Number 3
		The cabinet’s decision to leave the law as is was met with strong criticism from three of the four political parties in parliament, all of whom said that the cabinet ignored parliament’s wishes.
		The Radical Party has indicated that it will file a parliamentary motion to force the government to reconsider the issue.
		Residents of a Zurich apartment complex are gathering signatures to evict Dignitas, the assisted-suicide provider group that uses a fourth-floor flat as the place to end people’s lives.
	www.internationaltaskforce.org /iua37.htm (4411 words)

	Links of Interest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Socialist Party of Inland Empire and Orange County
		Partido Socialista del Valle (Socialist Party of the Rio Grande Valley)
		Last Updated March 4, 2005 by the Socialist Party of North Carolina
	www.ncsocialist.org /links.html (31 words)

	Brussels region council suspends cooperation agreement with Israel
		The decision was made following a motion sponsored by the Francophone Socialist Party and approved by the Ecologists (French-speaking and Flemish), the Flemish Socialist Party, and the Social-Christians (opposition).
		The Socialist Party also called the regional government of Brussels, one of Belgium's three autonomous regions, to inform the parliament prior to the resumption of cooperation with Israel.
		Last December, the Flemish autonomous government had suspended its relations with Israel to protest its violence.
	www.arabicnews.com /ansub/Daily/Day/020401/2002040149.html (206 words)

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