Hard work starts for Belgium's likely premier
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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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French socialist and popular favourite Segolene Royal Friday officially entered the race to be the country's next president, announcing that she is a candidate for her party's nomination.Comment
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If named the Liberal Party's leader this weekend, Michael Ignatieff would be a candidate to become the next prime minister.
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Jenson Button&#39;s attempt to score his first formula one victory in tomorrow&#39;s Belgian grand prix got off to a flying start yesterday.
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Yves Saint Laurent has its eye on the power player: the CEO, the politician, the man in charge.
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Come Monday, President Nicolas Sarkozy will likely be one of Europe's most powerful leaders. With the government, parliament and top state bodies under his conservative camp's control, he should face little political resistance as he seeks to reshape France.
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The majority coalition is expected to name a controversial prime minister.
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Joseph Kabila will be sworn in on Wednesday as Congo's first freely elected president in more than four decades, but he faces a mammoth task to satisfy popular expectations after years of war, dictatorship and chaos.
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French Socialist presidential contender Segolene Royal was preparing to set out her election programme in a speech to party delegates widely seen a turning-point in the campaign.
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A French-speaking party agreed on Wednesday to join a coalition that Belgium's caretaker Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt is trying to form, and media reported an interim government could be formed by the end of this week.
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The government formed by the ruling coalition and led by Algirdas Brazauskas will most likely receive a mandate to start its activities as early as Tuesday afternoon.
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Belgians voted on Sunday in an election expected to replace Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt with the premier of Flanders who wants more power for his Dutch-speaking region.
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The conservative French President reaches across party lines in filling a key foreign-affairs post
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THE French president promoted a staunch ally to replace a popular finance minister, strengthening his hand ahead of an expected struggle for the governing party&#39;s 2007 presidential nomination.
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Alex Salmond is making his first trip abroad as Scotland's first minister on a two-day visit to Belgium.
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The man expected to be Aceh's new governor hails the province's first direct vote but says hard work lies ahead.
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Belgium's caretaker prime minister has accepted a request from King Albert to form an interim government.