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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Belgium (via CobWeb/3.1 planet03.csc.ncsu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Belgium hosts the headquarters of NATO and a major part of the European Union's institutions and administrations, including the European Commission, the Council of the European Union and the extraordinary and committee sessions of the European Parliament, as well as parts of its administration.
Belgium is one of the few countries that has compulsory voting, thus having one of the highest rates of voter turnout in the world.
Belgium became a first-tier member of the Euro, the single European currency, in January 1999 and the Belgian franc was completely replaced by euro coins and banknotes in early 2002.
www.nationmaster.com.cob-web.org:8888 /encyclopedia/Belgium   (332 words)

  
 Belgium Encyclopedia Article @ Kiriakis.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Belgium is also one of the six founding members of the 1951 established European Coal and Steel Community, and the 1957 established European Economic Community and European Atomic Energy Community.
Belgium is a constitutional popular monarchy and parliamentary democracy that evolved after World War II from a unitary state to a federation.
Belgium, with an area of 30 528 square kilometres (11,787 sq. mi), has three main geographical regions: the coastal plain in the north-west, the central plateau, and the Ardennes uplands in the south-east.
www.kiriakis.com /encyclopedia/Belgium   (4429 words)

  
 Socialist Party (francophone Belgium) Encyclopedia Article @ MissPI.com (Miss PI)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Parti Socialiste or PS of Belgium is a French-speaking social democratic political party.
It is the dominant party in Wallonia, supported by the urban working class, and is led by Elio Di Rupo.
This party is nearly always part of the governing coalition, and dominates most local authorities because of the extremely fragmented nature of political institutions, especially from the French-speaking side.
www.misspi.com /encyclopedia/Socialist_Party_(francophone_Belgium)   (451 words)

  
 Politics of Belgium
The major parties in the Lower House are the Flemish Liberal Party (VLD), 23 seats; the Flemish Social Christian Party (CVP), 22 seats; the Francophone Socialist Party (PS), 19 seats; the Francophone Liberal Party (PRL), 18 seats; the right-wing Vlaams Blok party, 15 seats; and the Flemish Socialist Party (SP), 14 seats.
A postwar phenomenon in Belgium was the emergence of one-issue parties whose only reason for existence was the defense of the cultural, political, and economic interests of one of the linguistic groups or regions of Belgian society.
With regard to Belgium's perennial institutional issues, the new cabinet has decided to discuss them within the framework of a government-sponsored "constitutional conference." The francophone parties demand additional financial means for francophone schools, while the Flemish parties are in favor of greater "fiscal autonomy" for the Flemish regional government.
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 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.
The present government is a coalition of the Flemish Liberal Party (VLD), the Francophone Liberal Party (MR), the Flemish Socialist Party (SP.A), the Francophone Socialist Party (PS), the Flemish Green Party (AGALEV), and the Francophone Green Party (ECOLO).
A postwar phenomenon in Belgium was the emergence of linguistic parties whose only reason for existence was the defense of the cultural, political, and economic interests of one of the linguistic groups or regions of Belgian society.
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 GeographyIQ - World Atlas - Europe - Belgium - Government and Political Conditions
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.
Belgium is a highly unionized country, and organized labor has been a powerful influence in politics, although less so in recent elections.
www.geographyiq.com /countries/be/Belgium_government_summary.htm   (2803 words)

  
 Belgium: Instability reigns in Belgium
After two years of elections, which made it nearly impossible for government parties to go onto a frontal attack on workers’ conditions and rights, the bourgeoisie wants to catch up with their counterparts in neighbouring countries such as Germany and the Netherlands.
Since the christian democrats, the bourgeois’s traditional "popular" party (with bourgeois, petit bourgeois, peasant and workers’ wings, including the biggest Flemish trade union) of the bourgeoisie were thrown out of the government in 1999, the Flemish social democrats have been the architects of bourgeois neo-liberal politics.
Belgium actually has a map of "unnecessary public works", huge bridges leading to cow fields, that kind of stuff.
www.socialistworld.net /eng/2004/11/06Belgium.html   (3694 words)

  
 Belgium
In 1996, the country was shaken by the revelations surrounding the "Dutroux affair"-the kidnapping and murder of children by paedophiles-and the ensuing negligence and complicity by officials in the police and judiciary.
The party is the ideological heir to the pre-war right-wing movement that collaborated with Nazi Germany.
Belgique-Europe-België is a bilingual monarchist party that emerged in 1989.
www.axt.org.uk /antisem/archive/archive1/belgium/belgium.htm   (5081 words)

  
 Belgium Encyclopedia Article @ Confines.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Belgium has produced famous romantic, expressionist and surrealist painters; these include Egide Wappers, James Ensor, Constant Permeke and René Magritte.
Belgium has two current female tennis champions: Kim Clijsters and Justine Henin-Hardenne.
Belgium • Denmark • Liechtenstein (⁂) • Luxembourg • Monaco (⁂) • Kingdom of the Netherlands • Norway • Spain • Sweden •
www.confines.net /encyclopedia/Belgium   (4586 words)

  
 International Socialist Voice (25/05/03): Belgium: Elections Show Growing Polarisation
The instability, with voters switching parties, shows how the old balances are disrupted and also are an expression of the first elements of a political crisis in which no bourgeois party has a guaranteed stable basis in society.
All the major parties in Belgium do not cover the whole country, they are based in either Flanders or the Walloon; the LSP/MAS is one united party with different names in the regions.
The two liberal parties, VLD and MR, gained votes as they were able to realise much of their programme like implementing tax cuts partly paid for by the selling off state assets.
www.socialistparty.net /pub/pages/intr25-05-03/6.htm   (1939 words)

  
 2004 Country Report on Human Rights Practices in Belgium
Belgium is a parliamentary democracy with a constitutional monarch who plays a mainly symbolic role.
During the year, six people were convicted of conspiracy to murder the former Socialist Party Minister Andre Cools, who was assassinated in 1991.
Socialist Party Minister Alain Van der Biest was implicated in the conspiracy and committed suicide in 2002.
www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2004/41672.htm   (5813 words)

  
 Belgium
The Walloon government, francophone political parties and the Walloon parliament joined forces to oppose the bill, which proposes annual state hand-outs of US$640 to surviving 'victims of repression' and small-scale collaborators and their immediate families for the rest of their lives.
The party is the ideological heir to the pre-war right-wing movement that collaborated with Nazi Germany, and it has succeeded in combining Flemish separatist nationalism with opposition to immigration.
In 1996 the Charleroi branch of Assaut, a gang of bikers and skinheads, was reformed.
www.axt.org.uk /antisem/archive/archive2/belgium/belgium.htm   (5203 words)

  
 CNN.com - World - Election Watch
Belgium is a federal state consisting of two communities and three regions.
Belgium's bicameral parliament is composed of the Senate and the Chamber of Representatives.
Members of the Chamber of Representatives are directly elected by a party list proportional representation system from twenty multi-member constituencies for four-year terms.
www.cnn.com /WORLD/election.watch/europe/belgium.html   (515 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.
All of these parties claim to uphold socialism, though they might belong to different branches of the socialist movement and might therefore have different interpretations of what socialism means.
Most of these parties advocate either social democracy or democratic socialism.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Socialist_Party   (212 words)

  
 Socialist Party (via CobWeb/3.1 planet03.csc.ncsu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
'''Socialist Party''' is the name of several different socialist political parties around the world.
In some cases, those parties are more social-democrat than socialist.
See also: Democratic Socialist Party, Social Democratic Party, Socialist Labour Party, Socialist Workers Party, National Socialist Party, Communist Party, List of political parties.
socialist-party.kiwiki.homeip.net.cob-web.org:8888   (185 words)

  
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 Ecolo - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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Ecolo (standing for "Ecologistes Confédérés pour l'organisation de luttes originales") is a French-speaking Belgian green political party (Wallonia and Brussels).
It was part of the outgoing coalition, but resigned before the election and was decimated by a resurgent Parti Socialiste.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Ecolo   (176 words)

  
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 Political Resources on the Net - Belgium I (Parties)
Political parties Belgian parties represented at the federal, regional or community level
Maison de la Francité The francophone elected representatives from all political democratic parties, wishing to discuss the issue of the information society and to promote the use of the French language on the Internet
Partei der deutschsprachigen Belgier (PDB) (Party of the German speaking Belgians)
www.politicalresources.net /belgium.htm   (230 words)

  
 Party Page Titles @ Mingled.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
EVEN BEFORE the availability of detailed civic poll results from different parts of the State, every political party in the State is strangely vying to claim...
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Mingled.org is designed and maintained by Kurt Karr and is hosted by pair Networks.
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