* Belgium ( Belgian Holocaust denial law ),

After Belgian and Dutch newspapers republished the cartoons and politicians defended the publication with the argument of free speech, both denouncing the protests of Muslims and the AEL, the AEL issued statements and posted cartoons on the subject of Holocaust denial on its web pages using the same argument of " free speech " and denouncing official protests against them in return.

Tuymans ' subjects range from major historical events, such as the Holocaust or the politics of the Belgian Congo, to the inconsequential and banal-wallpaper patterns, Christmas decorations, everyday objects.

Hidden Children of the Holocaust: Belgian Nuns and their Daring Rescue of Young Jews from the Nazis ( 2010 )

The Belgian Holocaust denial law, passed on March 23, 1995, bans public Holocaust denial.

Some of the prisoners were able to escape and marked this particular kind of liberation action by the Belgian resistance movement as unique in the European history of the Holocaust.

El Mercurio columnist Hermógenes Pérez de Arce disputes even the existence of the Belgian report, citing the denial by the University's chief of communications, Tom de Smedt, that an investigation had been done in that university.

Having developed from a loose confederation of national political parties in the 1970s, the ELDR is now a recognised European political party incorporated as a non-profit association under Belgian law.

At an extraordinary Congress in Brussels held on 30 April 2004 the day before the enlargement of the European Union, the ELDR Party incorporated itself under Belgian law and later became a European political party.

The Belgian Anti-Racism Law, in full, the Law of 30 July 1981 on the Punishment of Certain Acts inspired by Racism or Xenophobia, is a law against hate speech and discrimination passed by the Federal Parliament of Belgium in 1981 which made certain acts motivated by racism or xenophobia illegal.

The Belgian philosopher of law Frank van Dun is one among those who are elaborating a secular conception of natural law in the liberal tradition.

SWIFT is a cooperative society under Belgian law and it is owned by its member financial institutions.

The proposed law on universal suffrage was approved the day after by the Belgian Parliament.

In Belgian domestic politics, Leopold emphasized military defense as the basis of neutrality, but he was unable to obtain a universal conscription law until on his death bed.

* Leopold II also engaged in a religious ceremony with Blanche Zélia Joséphine Delacroix, also known as Caroline Lacroix, a prostitute, on 14 December 1909, with no validity under Belgian law, at the Pavilion of Palms, Royal Palace of Laken, in Brussels, five days before his death.

Leopold married Lilian Baels on 11 September 1941 in a secret, religious ceremony, with no validity under Belgian law.

On 11 September 1941, while a prisoner of the Germans, Leopold secretly married Lilian Baels in a religious ceremony that had no validity under Belgian law, as Belgian law required a religious marriage to be preceded by a legal or civil marriage.

King Leopold III requested the Belgian Government and the Parliament to approve a law delegating his royal powers to his son, Prince Baudouin, who took the constitutional oath before the United Chambers of the Belgian Parliament as Prince Royal on 11 August 1950.

Since the relaxation of the Belgian nationality law more than 1. 3 million migrants have acquired Belgian citizenship and are now considered new Belgians.

Thus in Dutch, Burggraaf is the rank above Baron, below Graaf ( i. e., Count ) in the kingdoms of the Netherlands and of Belgium ( by Belgian law, its equivalents in the other official languages are Burggraf in German and vicomte in French ).

* Laga, Belgian law firm

Even though Belgium has two major languages ( i. e. Dutch in Flanders, and French in Wallonia ), bilingual instruction does not occur since Belgian law only permits education in one official language.

Additionally, the various world governments were pressing for the abolition of the law of universal competence ( also known as the " genocide law "), which gave Belgian judges the authority to accuse and sentence non-Belgians with crimes against humanity.

On December 17, 1909, Leopold II died at Laeken, and the Belgian crown passed to Albert, the son of Leopold's brother, Philip, Count of Flanders.

The 5th passed through Paris 30 August to spearhead V Corps drive through the Compiègne Forest, across the Oise, Aisne, and Somme Rivers, and reached the Belgian border at Condé, 2 September.

Two years later and based on statements by a former Commission spokesman, OLAF claimed that Tillack might have received the internal documents from an official in exchange for money and passed this information to the Belgian public prosecutor.

The crimes would have expired in the year 2000, but the Belgian Parliament passed two special acts to extend the investigation.

He passed Schumacher with the aid of a backmarker, rather similar to his teammate Mika Häkkinen's move on Schumacher at the Belgian Grand Prix the previous season.

Barely two months have passed since this congress and already in all of Europe ( with the exception of Germany where the workers are brainwashed by the lies of their leaders and their press ) and its free federations – Belgian, Dutch, English, American, French, Spanish, Italian – without forgetting our excellent Jura Federation – there has arisen a cry of indignation and contempt against this cynical burlesque which dares to call itself a true Congress of the International.

The draining law or Belgian dry up law refers to a controversial law passed by the Belgian Federal Parliament in 2005 to cut funding by the federal state to " undemocratic " parties.

He was, it is said, a mulatto born in this country, though he passed in the show bills for being Belgian.

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

Poirot had been forcibly retired from the Belgian police force prior to the time he met Hastings in 1916 as a refugee on the case retold in The Mysterious Affair at Styles.

* 1918 – World War I: The Battle of the Lys – the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps is crushed by the German forces during what is called the Spring Offensive on the Belgian region of Flanders.

Postal service in Belgium is in many cases performed by Belgian Post Group, a semi-privat public company which has as a monopoly on letters until 50g weight.

At Méteren, near the Belgian border at Bailleul on 13 October 1914, during an Allied counter-offensive, he was shot through the right lung by a sniper.

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.

The one major paratrooper attack was used earlier in Holland to capture a bridge and a number of small-scale glider-landings were conducted in Belgium to capture terrain dominating bottle-necks on planned routes of advance prior to the arrival of the main ground forces ( the most renowned being the landing on the Belgian border-fort of Eben-Emael ).

In 1927, the Belgian Roman Catholic priest Georges Lemaître independently derived the Friedmann-Lemaître-Robertson-Walker equations and proposed, on the basis of the recession of spiral nebulae, that the universe began with the " explosion " of a " primeval atom "— which was later called the Big Bang.

According to Julius Caesar, the Belgian tribe of the Atuatuci " was descended from the Cimbri and Teutoni, who, upon their march into our province and Italy, set down such of their stock and stuff as they could not drive or carry with them on the near ( i. e. west ) side of the Rhine, and left six thousand men of their company there with as guard and garrison " ( Gall.

A single attempt by the German army, on 12 August 1914, to use six regiments of massed cavalry to cut off the Belgian field army from Antwerp foundered when they were driven back in disorder by rifle fire.

Belgian Forces identity tags are, like the Canadian and Norwegian, designed to be broken in two in case of fatality ; the lower half is returned to Belgian Defence tail, while the upper half remains on the body.

Two thousand French and Belgian troops, some of whom were flown in on U. S. Air Force planes, arrived to evacuate the 20, 000 endangered foreign nationals in Kinshasa.

The Belgian Government made no effort to train Congolese commissioned officers until the very end of the Colonial period and there were only about 20 African cadets in training on the eve of Independence.

Ill-advised actions by Belgian officers led to an enlisted ranks ' rebellion on 5 July 1960, which helped spark the Congo Crisis.

Two days later on 11 July, Moise Tshombe declared the independence of Katanga province in the south-east, closely backed by remaining Belgian administrators and soldiers.

In June 1791, the King made an ill-fated attempt to flee the country ( flight to Varennes ), but was apprehended short of his goal on the Austrian Belgian border and was forced to return under guard to Paris.

* the constituent governing institution of the federal Belgian state through the institutions named the Flemish Community ( capital " C "), exercising the powers in most of those domains for the aforementioned community, and the officially Dutch-speaking Flemish Region, which has powers mainly on economic matters.

Such Men Are Dangerous was based on the life Alfred Lowenstein, a Belgian captain who either jumped or fell out of his plane in 1928.

But it failed due to Belgian resistance, Berlin's diversion of troops, and very stiff French resistance on the Marne, north of Paris.

Albert II of Belgium | Albert II, King of the Belgians inspecting Belgian Armed Forces | troops on Belgium's national day in 2011.

The Roman Senate declared a 20-day public holiday in Rome in honour of the unprecedented achievement of obtaining hostages from Britain and defeating Belgian tribes on returning to the continent.