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De Croo Government
The De Croo Government was the Federal Government of Belgium, led by Prime Minister Alexander De Croo from 1 October 2020 to 3 February 2025. It functioned in a caretaker capacity from the resignation of Prime Minister Alexander De Croo on 10 June 2024 following the 2024 Belgian federal election, until the formation of the next government. History The creation of the De Croo Government occurred on 1 October 2020, 494 days after the 2019 Belgian federal election of May 2019 as the 2019–20 Belgian government formation had been again a difficult process. The government replaced the minority Wilmès II Government, which was a temporary government instated to handle the consequences of the coronavirus outbreak. The De Croo Government was a so-called Vivaldi coalition, named after composer Antonio Vivaldi due to his work The Four Seasons which corresponds to the four different political views present in this coalition: the liberals (Open Vld and MR), the socialists (Vooruit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander De Croo
Alexander De Croo (; born 3 November 1975) is a Belgian politician and businessman who served as Prime Minister of Belgium from 2020 to 2025. Previously from 2012 to 2020, De Croo served as deputy prime minister in the governments of Elio Di Rupo, Charles Michel, and Sophie Wilmès. During his tenure as deputy prime minister he served as the Minister of Pensions from 2012 to 2014, as Minister of Development Cooperation (Belgium), Minister of Development Cooperation from 2014 to 2020, and as Minister of Finance (Belgium), Minister of Finance from 2018 to 2020. On 1 October 2020, over a year after the 2019 Belgian federal election, 2019 federal elections, the De Croo Government was formed to replace Wilmès II Government, Wilmès' minority government, with De Croo as prime minister. De Croo was born in Vilvoorde and studied business engineering at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel before attaining an Master of Business Administration, MBA at Northwestern University in the United State ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
De Wever Government
The De Wever government is the incumbent federal government of Belgium after the 2024 Belgian federal election. On 31 January 2025, a final agreement was reached between New Flemish Alliance, N-VA, Christian Democratic and Flemish, CD&V, Vooruit (political party), Vooruit, Reformist Movement, MR and Les Engagés to form a so-called "Arizona coalition", named after the colours of the Flag of Arizona, Arizona state flag. The new government is led by Bart de Wever, who is the first Flemish Movement, Flemish-Nationalist Prime Minister of Belgium. The ministers were sworn in before Philippe of Belgium, King Philippe on the third of February. Composition Other functions References 2025 establishments in Belgium Cabinets established in 2025 Belgian governments Current governments in Europe New Flemish Alliance Les Engagés {{Belgium-gov-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sophie Wilmès
Sophie Wilmès (; born 15 January 1975) is a Belgium, Belgian politician who served as the Prime Minister of Belgium, prime minister of Belgium from 2019 to 2020. She later served as List of Foreign Ministers of Belgium, minister of foreign affairs from 2020 to 2022. A member of the Mouvement Réformateur, Reformist Movement, she is the first woman to hold either position.Marine Strauss (1 October 2020Finally, a government after 652 days: New Belgian PM debuts at EU summit''Reuters''. Wilmès was elected to the Chamber of Representatives (Belgium), Chamber of Representatives in 2014, and served as Minister of Budget (Belgium), budget minister in the Michel I Government, first and Michel II Government, second governments of Charles Michel from 2015 to 2019. In the aftermath of the 2019 Belgian federal election, Philippe of Belgium appointed Wilmès to lead a caretaker government (the Wilmès I Government) before she formed an executive government (the Wilmès II Government) in Mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2024 Belgian Regional Elections
The 2024 Belgian regional elections were held on Sunday 9 June, the same day as the 2024 European Parliament election as well as the Belgian federal election. In the regional elections, new representatives are chosen for the Flemish Parliament, Walloon Parliament, Brussels Parliament and the Parliament of the German-speaking Community. The Parliament of the French Community is composed of all elected members of the Walloon Parliament (German-speaking members are replaced) and 19 of the French-speaking members of the Brussels Parliament. Electoral system The regional parliaments have limited power over their own election; federal law largely regulates this and the federal government organises the elections, which occur per Article 117 of the Constitution on the same day as the European Parliament elections. As such, all regional parliaments are elected using proportional representation under the D'Hondt method. Flemish Parliament 124 members of the Flemish Parliament w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
VRT NWS
VRT NWS is the main news channel of the Flemish national broadcasting company VRT. It has an which provides text articles on news, analyses, and general background information. Content As the main news channel of the Flemish national broadcasting company VRT, VRT NWS is government funded, but its editors operate independently. VRT NWS is the main provider of audio-visual news in Dutch-speaking Belgium, with only one private company offering a comparable service. The VRT NWS website offers text articles all contemporary news, but also aims to provide more in depth-analyses as well as general background information. In addition to this content, the website also places a lot of stress on historical remembrance, with entire sections of its homepage dedicated to, for example, the events of World War I and II. VRT NWS targets a very broad audience with easily digestible texts and, together with ''De Standaard'' and ''De Morgen ''De Morgen'' (; ''The Morning'') is a Flemi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Engagés
(LE, , ) is a centrist French-speaking political party in Belgium. The party originated in the split in 1972 of the unitary Christian Social Party (PSC-CVP), which had been the country's governing party for much of the post-war period. It continued to be called the Christian Social Party (, PSC) until 2002 when it was renamed the Humanist Democratic Centre (, CDH). It took its current name on 17 March 2022, and currently is a member of the governing national coalition in Belgium, along with the Walloon and French Community coalition governments. History The PSC was officially founded in 1972. The foundation was the result of the split of the unitary Christian Social Party (PSC-CVP) into the Dutch-speaking Christian People's Party (CVP) and the French-speaking Christian Social Party (PSC), following the increased linguistic tensions after the crisis at the Catholic University of Leuven in 1968. The PSC performed particularly badly in the 1999 general election. This was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Four Seasons (Vivaldi)
''The Four Seasons'' () is a group of four violin concerto, violin concerti by Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi, each of which gives musical expression to a season of the year. These were composed around 1718–1720, when Vivaldi was the court chapel master in Mantua. They were published in 1725 in Amsterdam in what was at the time the Dutch Republic, together with eight additional concerti, as (''The Contest Between Harmony and Invention''). ''The Four Seasons'' is the best known of Vivaldi's works. Though three of the concerti are wholly original, the first, "Spring", borrows patterns from a sinfonia in the first act of Vivaldi's contemporaneous opera ''Giustino (Vivaldi), Il Giustino''. The inspiration for the concertos is not the countryside around Mantua, as initially supposed, where Vivaldi was living at the time, since according to Karl Heller they could have been written as early as 1716–1717, while Vivaldi was engaged with the court of Mantua only in 1718. They were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonio Vivaldi
Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (4 March 1678 – 28 July 1741) was an Italian composer, virtuoso violinist, impresario of Baroque music and Roman Catholic priest. Regarded as one of the greatest Baroque composers, Vivaldi's influence during his lifetime was widespread across Europe, giving origin to many imitators and admirers. He pioneered many developments in orchestration, violin technique and Program music, programmatic music. He consolidated the emerging concerto form, especially the solo concerto, into a widely accepted and followed idiom. Vivaldi composed many instrumental concertos, for the violin and a variety of other musical instruments, as well as Sacred Music, sacred choral works and List of operas by Antonio Vivaldi, more than fifty operas. His best-known work is a series of violin concertos known as ''The Four Seasons (Vivaldi), The Four Seasons''. Many of his compositions were written for the all-female music ensemble of the , a home for abandoned children. Vivaldi b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vivaldi Coalition
The Vivaldi coalition (; ) is a neologism in Belgian politics describing a governing coalition among the parties of the liberals, social democrats, greens and Christian democrats. In Germany, a comparable coalition of the CDU (black), the SPD (red), the FDP (yellow) and the Greens (green) is occasionally referred to as the Zimbabwe coalition ( ''German'': ''Simbabwe-Koalition''), after the colours of the Zimbabwean flag or the Ghana coalition ( ''German'': ''Ghana-Koalition''), after the colours of the Ghanan flag. Details The coalition is named after the Italian violinist and composer Antonio Vivaldi and references his work '' The Four Seasons'', due to the colors of the political ideologies within the coalition: * blue (winter) for the liberals: Open Vld and Reformist Movement; * green (spring) for the greens: Groen and Ecolo; * red (summer) for the social democrats: Vooruit and Socialist Party; * orange (autumn) for the Christian democrats: Christian Democratic a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
COVID-19 Pandemic In Belgium
The COVID-19 pandemic in Belgium has resulted in confirmed cases of COVID-19 and deaths. The virus was confirmed to have spread to Belgium on 4 February 2020, when one of a group of nine Belgians repatriated from Wuhan to Brussels was reported to have tested positive for the coronavirus. Transmission within Belgium was confirmed in early March; authorities linked this to holidaymakers returning from Northern Italy at the end of the half-term holidays. The epidemic increased rapidly in March–April 2020. By the end of March all 10 provinces of the country had registered cases. By March 2021, Belgium had the COVID-19 pandemic death rates by country, third highest number of COVID-19 deaths per head of population in the world, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. However, Belgium may have been over-reporting the number of cases, with health officials reporting that suspected cases were being reported along with confirmed cases. Unlike some countries that publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2024 Belgian Federal Election
Federal elections were held in Belgium on 9 June 2024. The Chamber of Representatives (Belgium), Chamber of Representatives received 150 members with five-year terms. 2024 European Parliament election in Belgium, European and 2024 Belgian regional elections, regional elections took place 2024 Belgian elections, on the same day. Background After a 2019–2020 Belgian government formation, lengthy government formation spanning 494 days, the 2019 Belgian federal election eventually resulted in the formation of a government led by prime minister Alexander De Croo, consisting of a so-called Vivaldi coalition. The government replaced a government led by Sophie Wilmès, which was a caretaker minority government with emergency plenary powers given by the opposition to deal with the COVID-19 COVID-19 pandemic in Belgium, outbreak in Belgium. Electoral system The 150 members of the Chamber of Representatives (Belgium), Chamber of Representatives are elected in 11 m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
