The Belgian € 10 silver coin, commemorating sixty years of peace, depicts the phoenix as a representation of a new Europe, post 1945.

# The name originated from the last name Veluche belonging to the French or Belgian owner of the trading post in Volusia.

The Spanish presidency unsuccessfully tried to challenge the European Council President's prominent post during the first rotating presidency of 2010, while the second half of the year saw a Belgian rotating presidency marked by a weakened caretaker government which did not challenge Herman van Rompuy, himself a Belgian politician.

He consequently resigned from his post and lived in close retirement until 1839, when he became the first Dutch minister at the Belgian court.

In the Corbeau case, Mr Corbeau had wanted to operate a rapid delivery service for post, which infringed the Belgian Regie des Postes exclusive right to operate all services.

A city terminus of steamer navigation on the Congo River, the town began as a Belgian trading post.

The Cockerill-Sambre group was formed in 1981 by the merger of two Belgian steel groups ; Cockerill based in Seraing ( Liege province ), and Hainaut-Sambre based in Charleroi in the province of Hainaut ; both being the result of post second world war consolidations of the Belgian steel industry.

It was made available from January 1, 2007 with a face value of 0. 50 euros, in all Belgian post offices.

The Belgian United Nations Command | Belgian battalion occupies blocking positions near the brigade's command post, RNF, RUR and 8th Hussars are still further north.

JCVD is a 2008 Belgian crime comedy-drama film directed by French Tunisian director Mabrouk El Mechri, and starring Jean-Claude Van Damme as a semi fictionalized version of himself, a down and out action star whose family and career are crumbling around him as he is caught in the middle of a post office heist in his hometown of Brussels, Belgium.

At the Belgian revolution of 1830 he thought it advisable to undertake pastoral work at home rather than to accept an educational post in the family of the Dutch king.

On 20 September 2007, the Belgian Gilles de Kerchove was appointed to succeed De Vries in the post .< ref >

Able Archer 83 was a ten-day NATO command post exercise starting on November 2, 1983 that spanned Western Europe, centered on the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe ( SHAPE ) Headquarters situated at Casteau, north of the Belgian city of Mons.

In 1874 he became professor of chemistry and geology in the college of the Belgian Jesuits at Leuven, a few years later he was appointed one of the curators of the Royal Natural History Museum at Brussels, and in 1882 he relinquished his post at Louvain.

In 1849 he married the daughter of his first teacher, Navez, and in 1850 he settled in Brussels ; but when he did not get the post of director of the Brussels academy, and wished, nevertheless, to carry on teaching as his father-in-law had done, he opened a private studio-school, which became one of great significance in the development of Belgian art.

While in office, he formed an authoritarian regime responsible for numerous human rights violations, attempted to purge the country of all Belgian cultural influences and maintained an anti-communist stance to gain positive international diplomacy.

Herman Van Rompuy, the then Belgian Prime Minister, was appointed President on 19 November 2009 and took office on 1 December 2009.

In 2004, following a request from OLAF, a Belgian judge ordered a search of the journalist's home and office in Brussels where the authorities seized his archives and his mobile phone.

Given the context a liaison office was founded within RASAB, which makes sure that the advice from the Belgian as well as the European Academies are heard by the European policy makers.

The AEL patrols were stopped after the Antwerp public prosecutor's office began an investigation into whether the activities violated Belgian laws against the organization of private militias.

The Belgian crisis had been settled, so far as the two powers were concerned, before Broglie took office, but the concerted military and naval action for the coercion of the Dutch, which led to the French occupation of Antwerp, was carried out under his auspices.

The lack of a public tender was criticised by the Belgian audit office.

With the formation of the wartime coalition government in May 1915, Long returned to office at the Local Government Board, and there dealt with the plight of thousands of Belgian refugees.

VLM Airlines ( where " VLM " is an abbreviation of Vlaamse Luchttransportmaatschappij, " Flemish Air Transport Company ") is a Belgian airline whose head office is in Airport Building B50 at Antwerp International Airport in Deurne, Antwerp.

Seven weeks after the kidnapping, on Friday, Pierre Salik, a Belgian businessman who was close to the Baron, received a telephone call at his Brussels office.

On the demand of Golik, the Belgian prosecutor ’ s office asked the European Parliament to strip Golik of his immunity.

The old Belgian customs office was renovated and now serves as a retro-café with a small exhibition.

* Missing ( 2007 film ) ( Dutch: Vermist ), a Belgian film that was a 2007 box office number-one film in Belgium

However, inspection of Belgian SPC certificates for products authorised via the " centralised " procedure reveals that at least the patent office in Belgium already appears to base calculations of SPC term upon date ( 2 ).

An action by Belgian police followed that resulted in the journalist being detained by the police for several hours, his home and office being searched, and possessions including 16 boxes of documents, two archive boxes, two computers and four mobile phones being seized.

In January 2009, the Belgian judiciary on Tuesday definitively closed the case brought by the EU anti-fraud office, OLAF, in 2004 against Hans-Martin Tillack.

Ernie, meanwhile, discovers the Zeppco documents in the factory's office and contacts the same representatives who Lars turned down to meet with them in the town square and discuss selling the factory, but he flirts with two Belgian hair models, Ingrid and Hilde, and loses his hat.

The conciliator office and the minister denounced the unwillingness of the leadership to negotiate and the Belgian trade union " investigating " to determine if the bankruptcy is fraudulent or not.

She is the Minister of Social Affairs and Public Health in the Belgian federal government, i. e., the Van Rompuy I Government, which took office on 30 December 2008.

* Belgian general election, 1981: Mark Eyskens was forced out of office as Prime Minister of Belgium after only eight months.

It also urged that the U.N. eject, and prevent the return of, all Belgian and other foreign military and political advisers ; ;

Not only was his Belgian nationality interesting because of Belgium's occupation by Germany ( which provided a valid explanation of why such a skilled detective would be out of work and available to solve mysteries at an English country house ), but also at the time of Christie's writing, it was considered patriotic to express sympathy with the Belgians, since the invasion of their country had constituted Britain's casus belli for entering World War I, and British wartime propaganda emphasized the " Rape of Belgium ".

Due to mutual agreements with foreign clubs, the youth academy has also signed foreign players as teenagers before making first team debuts, such as Belgian defensive trio Jan Vertonghen, Toby Alderweireld and Thomas Vermaelen ( now with Arsenal ) and winger Tom de Mul ( now with Sevilla ), all of whom are full internationals as well as Dutch youth international Javier Martina and Vurnon Anita of the Netherlands Antilles.

The Belgian Blue's meat cuts also have a lower collagen content, which allows the protein quality to be improved due to a higher yield of amino acids.

* The Belgian ( horse ) is also known as a Brabant or Brabançon

During its history the area has also been known as Congo, Congo Free State, Belgian Congo and Zaire.

Elements of the FP were also used to form Belgian colonial units that fought in the East African Campaign during World War II.

François d ' Aguilon ( also d ' Aguillon or in Latin Franciscus Aguilonius ) ( 4 January 1567, Brussels – 20 March 1617, Tournai ), was a Belgian Jesuit mathematician, physicist and architect.

Dutch or Belgian gin, also known as jenever or genever, evolved from malt wine spirits, and is a distinctly different drink from later styles of gin.

King William I was also given rule over Belgium, but this lasted only until the conclusion of the Belgian Revolution in 1831.

Haggis-maker MacSween conducted a taste-test which indicated that whisky is a proper accompaniment, and adds that lighter-bodied, tannic red wines, such as those made from the Barbera grape, are also suitable, as are strong, powerfully flavoured Belgian beers, such as Duvel and Chimay Blue.

The progenitor of the A9 / A10 was the German V-2 rocket, also designed by von Braun and widely used at the end of World War II to bomb British and Belgian cities.

The loss of Belgian markets also caused painful economic problems for the state.

The Luxembourg Government in exile in London made agreements for a group of seventy Luxembourg volunteers to be assigned to in 1944 the ' Artillery Group ' of the 1st Belgian Infantry Brigade ( also known as the Piron Brigade ).

There is also is unitary Belgian nationalism, several versions of a Greater Netherlands ideal, and a German-speaking community of Belgium annexed from Prussia in 1920, and re-annexed by Germany in 1940 – 1944.

Belgian King Leopold II also tried to gain a foothold on the northern bank of the Congo River and send Stanley to the area around Brazzaville.

Other foreign soaps that used to air on Belgian television are " The Young And The Restless " ( at VTM ), " EastEnders " ( also at VTM ), " Port Charles " ( at één, back then called TV1 ), " Coronation Street " ( at Vitaya ).

Albert Henry wrote that although in 1988 the word Walloon evoked a constitutional reality, it originally referred to Roman populations of the Burgundian Netherlands and was also used to designate a territory by the terms provinces wallonnes or Walloon country ( Pays wallon ), from the 16th century to the Belgian revolution, and later Wallonia.

In 2000, the Belgian comic book artist and writer Crisse ( Didier Chrispeels ) introduced the first of a series of comic books featuring Atalanta, who is also abandoned by her father but saved by goddesses and nurtured by a bear.

Like many elements in Belgian folklore, this is mainly based on the French " La Marseillaise " which is also both an anthem and the name of a monument-the sculptural group Departure of the Volunteers of 1792, commonly called " La Marseillaise ", at the base of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.

* The Belgian cartographer and geographer Abraham Ortelius features Ming Dynasty-era Chinese carriages with masts and sails in his atlas Theatrum Orbis Terrarum ; concurrent and later Western writers also take note of this peculiar Chinese invention.

1985 was a poor season for Lauda, with eleven retirements from the fourteen races he started, he did not start the Belgian Grand Prix at Spa-Francorchamps after crashing and breaking his wrist during practice, he also later missed the European Grand Prix at Brands Hatch ; John Watson replaced him for that race.

The port city was also the main objective of German armies in December ; the inability of the Allies to end the war in 1944 meant that Allied troops had to winter in Belgium, during which time the Ardennes Offensive was launched by the Germans, resulting in heavy fighting on Belgian soil that lasted into 1945.

Henny also worked with Belgian singer-songwriter Jan De Wilde and recorded a duet with the lead singer of demissionary New Dutch Wave-survivors Frank Boeijen Groep.