During the so called " Hotel agreement ", signed on July 17, 2001, Belgian prime minister Guy Verhofstadt met with Swissair boss Mario Corti, who agreed to inject € 258 million into SABENA.

His political connections helped Dexia's bad bank to secure funding guarantees of up to € 90 billion provided primarily by the Belgian government.

An anonymous complaint was received by the Belgian Banking, Finance and Insurance Commission alleging De Gucht's wife sold € 500, 000 worth of Fortis shares.

In December 1998, Dassault was sentenced to two years ' probation in the Belgian Agusta scandal, and was fined 60, 000 Belgian francs ( about € 1, 500 ).

Pierre Galand pointed out that the Cape Town session of the tribunal had a budget of € 190, 000 ; € 100, 000 was donated by Editions Indigene, the publisher of the book “ Time for an outrage .” In addition, more than € 15, 000 was raised at a September 24, 2011 fundraising event by the Belgian support committee of the Russell Tribunal.

In 2001, Belgian police concluded that a loan of over € 1. 5 million had been made by Arsenal to the company Goal, which helped secure Beveren's financial position.

Berlaymont 2000 would pay € 74. 3 million to the Belgian state ( also acting as a guarantor ) and provide € 160 million for the work, and in exchange it would gain a long lease on the building.

In total, 11 buildings costing € 14. 8 million a year to the Belgian state: in return the Commission kept paying the Berlaymont rent while it was vacated.

The December 1998 handover date was delayed five times and the bill to the Belgian state for the poor planning and disagreements amounted, by some estimates, to € 824 million.

Groningen signed the Serbian attacking midfielder Dusan Tadic from Vojvodina for a reported € 1, 1 million, Belgian defender Jonas Ivens from KV Mechelen for € 600, 000 and Dutch midfielder Maikel Kieftenbeld from Go Ahead Eagles for an undisclosed fee.

In January 2006, Post Danmark and CVC Capital Partners signed an agreement with the Belgian Government on the acquisition of 50 % minus one share in the Belgian Post for € 300 million.

As a consequence of the conditions posed by the European Commission with regards to allowing the merger, on 29 May 2008 Suez sold its Belgian gas supplier Distrigas to the Italian company Eni for € 2. 7 billion.

The initial press releases reported that Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg would invest respectively € 4. 7 billion, € 4 billion and € 2. 5 billion in the Belgian, Dutch and Luxembourg Fortis Banks.

In more detail, the Belgian government bought the remaining 51 % of Fortis Bank SA / NV from Fortis Group for an additional € 4. 7 billion, split off a portfolio of € 10. 4 billion in structured products, in which it sold a 66 % share back to the Fortis Group ( at € 6. 9 billion ) and then sold a 75 % share of Fortis Bank SA / NV to BNP Paribas, at an evaluation of € 11 billion for the total company, to be paid by shares, making the Belgian government the biggest shareholder in BNP Paribas ( at 12 %).

The Belgian government decided to act, and on July 10 dispatched paratroops to the Congo.

Montgomery's training paid off when the Germans began their invasion of the Low Countries on 10 May 1940 and the 3rd Division advanced to the River Dijle and then withdrew to Dunkirk with great professionalism, entering the Dunkirk perimeter in a famous night-time march which placed his forces on the left flank which had been left exposed by the Belgian surrender.

Belgian troops intervened in Elisabethville and Luluabourg ( 10 July ), Matadi ( 11 July ), Leopoldville ( 13 July ) and elsewhere.

On 10 May 1940, Ribbentrop summoned the Dutch, Belgian and Luxembourg ambassadors to present them with notes justifying the German invasion of their countries, several hours after the Germans had invaded those nations.

En route to the semi-final, which they lost to Real Madrid, the team recorded a 10 – 0 victory over Belgian champions Anderlecht, which remains the club's biggest victory on record.

* February 10 – Roger Casement publishes his account of Belgian atrocities in the Congo.

* January 10 – First appearance of Hergé's Belgian comic book hero Tintin as Tintin in the Land of the Soviets ( Les Aventures de Tintin, reporter ..., au pays des Soviets ), begins serialization in children's newspaper supplement Le Petit Vingtième.

* May 10 – Udo Mechels, Belgian singer

* February 10 – A conference about the proposed independence of the Belgian Congo begins in Brussels, Belgium.

* February 10 – Georges Pire, Belgian monk, Nobel laureate ( d. 1969 )

* August 10 – Belgian mercenary Jean Schramme's troops take the Congolese border town of Bukavu.

* December 10 – César Franck, Belgian composer and organist ( d. 1890 )

After the downing of the Rwandan and Burundian presidential plane 10 Belgian peackeepers were kidnapped, mutilated and murdered by the Hutu-dominated government army.

The battles took place from 19 September 1944 to 10 February 1945, over barely, east of the Belgian – German border.

Since the first official census by the Belgian authorities in 1924 put the population at about 10 million, that implies a rough estimate of 10 million dead.

In Belgium, a small group of German glider-borne troops landed on top of the Belgian fortress of Eben Emael on the morning of May 10, 1940 and disabled the majority of its artillery.

To celebrate the 75th anniversary of the stadium ( and the 100th anniversary of Derby's team ) the Belgian state released a commemorative coin: the 10 euro 75 years of Heysel Stadium commemorative coin.

23. 1 % were of German, 10. 3 % Irish, 8. 4 % American, 7. 2 % English, 6. 6 % Swedish and 5. 5 % Belgian ancestry according to Census 2000.

It is notable that nine of the 10 Belgian jury members awarded their votes to Ireland.

The law took effect in 1993 and was expanded the following year after 10 Belgian soldiers were killed in Rwanda.

Hélène Dutrieu was born on 10 July 1877 in Tournai, Belgium, the daughter of a Belgian Army officer.

The newspaper received a letter on 28 June 2006 indicating where the bodies of two Belgian girls, who went missing on 10 June 2006, were located.

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During this early period of the French rule, the Belgian economy was completely paralyzed: it was forbidden to export from the port of Antwerp, heavy taxes had to be paid in gold and silver coin, while goods bought by the French were paid for with worthless assignats.

Euro gold and silver commemorative coins ( Belgium )# 2006 coinage | 175th Anniversary of the Belgian Dynasty Coin

Ivan Joseph Martin Osiier of Denmark took the silver medal, and another Belgian who was not in the team event, Philippe le Hardy de Beaulieu, won the bronze medal.

Mauresmo won a silver medal in singles at the Olympic Games in Athens, where she was defeated by Belgian Justine Henin in the final.

* Henri Cohen ( water polo ) (- 1930 ), a Belgian water polo Olympic silver medalist

He was third in the 100 m backstroke, and was a member of the Belgian team who won silver in the water polo tournament.

At 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris the Blitz brothers were still part of the Belgian water polo squad, that won another silver medal.

Maurice Blitz and his brother Gérard were both member of the Belgian water polo national team who won silver in two consecutive olympic events, in 1920 and 1924.

Former Ethiopian Elvan Abeylegesse did the 3000 / 5000 metres double for Turkey, breaking the championship record in the 5000 m. Michał Hodun of Poland took the shot put and discus gold medals, while Belgian athlete Kevin Rans completed an unusual silver medal double at the competition in the 200 m and the pole vault.