Belgian king reappoints Verhofstadt prime minister
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"The king received Mr Guy Verhofstadt this evening at the palace in Laeken (Brussels) and named him prime minister"  Belgian King Albert reappointed Guy Verhofstadt as prime minister on Friday to head an interim government charged with trying to bridge Belgium's ever-widening linguistic divide. via Reuters
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Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan was in Brussels yesterday. Meetings planned beforehand and regarded as &quot;unnecessary&quot; by many people, gained great importance after the Turkish Penal Code (TCK) crisis.
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Mervyn King is reappointed as governor of the Bank of England, the Treasury says.
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Guinea's ruler appointed a new prime minister, state-run radio said Friday, in a move apparently aimed at appeasing union leaders who led a crippling two-week strike.
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Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt's 8-year term in office appeared set to end after voters punished his party in an election on Sunday and strongly backed the Flemish Christian Democrats, early results showed.
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Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt took his eight-year legacy of a liberal-socialist coalition government to voters on Sunday, hoping that polls predicting losses prove incorrect.
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Belgium's caretaker prime minister said on Wednesday he would form a five-party, interim coalition government, providing a temporary solution to a political crisis more than six months after elections.
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Outgoing Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt resigned on Monday, clearing the way for his likely successor to start the tough task of forming a stable government after Sunday's general election.
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Belgians head to the polls Sunday in legislative and senate elections widely expected to dash Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt's hopes for a third four-year term in office. via Baku Today
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Belgian caretaker Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt accepted a request from King Albert on Monday to form an interim government and seek to end the country's political deadlock since a general election in June.
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Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt will meet new Volkswagen boss Martin Winterkorn to discuss a plan to save thousands of jobs at VW's Brussels plant thanks to a new Audi model, union officials said.
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BRUSSELS -- Belgian voters punished the outgoing liberal-socialist government in an election yesterday and cleared the way for Flemish leader Yves Leterme to become prime minister.
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"In the wings, I told myself it was lost for me because of that but everyone encouraged me and told me it was not important."  Belgium's newly crowned beauty queen has been drawn into the bitter political feud that has left Brussels without a government for six months after it emerged that she cannot speak the language used by half of ... via Telegraph.co.uk
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Belgium's interim PM faces a vote of confidence as he seeks to end months of political paralysis.
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OTTAWA (CP) - Prime Minister Paul Martin says he's not interested in making Canada more like Belgium, no matter what Stephen Harper thinks.
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Guy Verhofstadt, Belgium's prime minister, was trying to stop the crisis wrecking his coalition government yesterday, although doctors told him to work from home after he broke two ribs in a car accident on ...
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The Dutch prime minister said Thursday his government will resign after his coalition split over the citizenship case of a Somali-born lawmaker. Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende said he will tender his resignation to Queen Beatrix on Friday, signaling the collapse of three-year-old government and likely early elections.