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2008 In Belgium
The following lists events that happened during 2008 in the Kingdom of Belgium. Incumbents *Monarch: Albert II *Prime Minister: ** until 20 March: Guy Verhofstadt ** 20 March-30 December: Yves Leterme ** starting 30 December: Herman Van Rompuy Events March * March 2 - Bruno Valkeniers is chosen as party chairman of political party Vlaams Belang with 94.6% of the vote. * March 20 - Leterme I Government sworn in after 9 months of negotiations. April * April 12 - Standard Liège beat Anderlecht 2–0 at home and win the First Division. May * May 8 - Club Brugge player François Sterchele dies in a car crash. September * September 22 - Political parties CD&V and N-VA end their collaboration. Geert Bourgeois resigns from the Flemish government. October * October 5 - Rik Ceulemans is the first Belgian to win the Marathon of Brussels in 2:19.29. December * December 22 - Albert II accepts Yves Leterme's resignation as Prime Minister * December 28 - During a Taizé Community me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
N-VA
The New Flemish Alliance ( ; N-VA) is a Flemish nationalist, conservative political party in Belgium. The party was established in 2001 by the right-leaning faction of the centrist-nationalist People's Union (VU). The N-VA is a regionalist and confederalist movement that self-identifies with the promotion of civic nationalism.Manifesto of the New Flemish Alliance point 13: "Inclusion for newcomers" (in Dutch). Within the Flemish Movement, the party strives for the peaceful and gradual transformation of into a confederal country. In recent years it has become the largest party of Flanders as well as of Belgium as a whole, and it participated in the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Schruers
Paul Schruers (1929–2008) was the second Bishop of Hasselt in Belgium. Life Schruers was born in Hasselt on 25 October 1929. He experienced a sense of religious vocation from the age of 16. He studied at the minor seminary in Sint-Truiden and the Diocesan Seminary of Liège, where he was ordained to the priesthood in 1954. From 1957 to 1967 he was professor of dogmatic theology at the Diocesan Seminary in Liège. He was appointed vicar general when the diocese of Hasselt was founded in 1967, and auxiliary bishop in 1970. On 15 December 1989 he succeeded Jozef Heusschen as bishop. Pope John Paul II accepted his resignation on 25 October 2004. After a brain haemorrhage Intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH), also known as hemorrhagic stroke, is a sudden bleeding into the tissues of the brain (i.e. the parenchyma), into its ventricles, or into both. An ICH is a type of bleeding within the skull and one kind of stro ... in May 2008 he never fully recovered. He died on 25 August ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Demoulin
Robert Demoulin (1911–2008) was a professor of contemporary Belgian history at the University of Liège. Life Demoulin was born in Huy on 8 May 1911. He attended a state secondary school in Huy, and then the University of Liège, where he studied history.Vincent Genin, "Demoulin, Robert", in ''Nouvelle Biographie Nationale''vol. 13(Brussels, 2016), pp. 100-102. He graduated Ph.D. in 1932, with a thesis on the Belgian Revolution of 1830. In the mid-1930s he prospected in archives in Paris, London and The Hague, attending Charles Webster's seminar at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and François Simiand's lectures at the Collège de France. In 1938 he succeeded Herman Vander Linden lecturing on Belgian and contemporary history in Liège. He was called up as a lieutenant in the reserves in 1940, and spent much of the Second World War World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
