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...political operator, who is happy to play rough as well as smooth. Last year he ordered the locks to be changed on a chamber in the Belgian parliament in order to prevent deputies holding a politically disruptive debate. According to Belgian...

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...had more traction, Crystal says, because earlier that year the Belgian Parliamentary Commission on Cults submitted a report to the Belgian Parliament identifying 189 religious groups it categorized as cults. The list included the LDS...

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...challenges the Brussels consensus. Last year, six months before becoming prime minister, he abused his position as speaker of the Belgian parliament to cancel a politically inconvenient debate. To make doubly sure that MPs would be...

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Newly appointed European Council President-elect Herman Van Rompuy sits in his car as he leaves the Belgian Parliament in Brussels, Friday, Nov. 20, 2009. The European Union's new president is a...

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...few weeks an old statement by Van Rompuy about Turkish entry into the EU was unearthed. In December 2004 Van Rompuy, a member of Belgian parliament at the time, said: "Turkey is not a part of Europe and will never be part of Europe (...) The...

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...policy chief. "Turkey is not a part of Europe and will never be part of Europe," Mr Van Rompuy said during a meeting held at the Belgian parliament in December 2004. "An expansion of the EU to include Turkey cannot be considered as just...

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...newspaper, De Morgen. The Belgian shares the strong opposition of both Sarkozy and Merkel to Turkey joining the EU. In a debate in the Belgian parliament five years ago, Van Rompuy made plain that he viewed the EU as a Christian club...

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...VAN ROMPUY - BELGIUM Belgian Prime Minister said to be the frontrunner in the contest. A Christian Democrat, and former president of the Belgian parliament. Former president of Latvia, and the only woman in the seven. Dubbed the Iron...

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...revised European 'constitution' which was voted down in the Dutch and Irish referendums in 2005. Mr Van Rompuy, in a speech to the Belgian Parliament after the No votes, said: "We go on with the ratification of the European Constitution in...

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