Albert II of Belgium

...difficult. Earlier, smoke and small fires had hampered searching, especially by the sniffer dogs being used. Belgian King Albert II visited the site to show his support for the rescue workers and his sympathy for the victims,...

In this article: Liege, Belgium, Dog, Albert II, and Meuse River

...hotel offered free rooms while a crisis center was opened in a nearby church, with food and camp beds available. Belgium's King Albert II was due to visit the area later in the day. The blast was apparently caused by a domestic gas...

In this article: Liege, Albert II, and Belgium

...a dozen people officially resided in the building. It was unclear how many were sleeping there when the blast went off. Belgian King Albert II was planning to visit the site in the afternoon and visit survivors in area hospitals.

In this article: Liege, Belgium, Dog, and Albert II

...won the Tour de France five times and was named Sports Person Of The Century in a Belgian poll in 2000. In 1996 King Albert II made him a baron. Jacky Ickx - another trickily spelt name, this time that of a famous Belgian racing driver. He...

In this article: Jean-Pierre Coopman, Belgium, Eddy Merckx, Muhammad Ali, Albert II, Jacky Ickx, and Michel Vaillant

...who has died aged 67, was the half-brother of King Albert II and son of the late King Leopold III of the Belgians. Published: 5:44PM GMT 17 Dec 2009 He was born at the Chateau of Laeken on July 18 1942 and christened Alexandre Emmanuel...

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...two decades with near-invisibility. According to Geertrui, with whom he has four children, when King Albert II, begged him to become Belgium's prime minister last year, "he did everything he could to get out of it", but felt he had to...

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...the outgoing Belgian premier chosen to become the first European Union president at a summit Thursday, met with his cabinet and King Albert II to start the process of finding a successor, without talking to the press. However the...

In this article: European Union, Herman Van Rompuy, Baroness Ashton, Europe, Gordon Brown, Brussels, United States, European Policy Centre, Centre for European Reform, and Wen Jiabao

During one of his country's episodic constitutional and political crises, he emerged from an emergency meeting with Belgium's King Albert II to make a typically gnomic statement. "Every human being must choose between mystery and the absurd.

In this article: Herman Van Rompuy, European Union, Gordon Brown, Belgium, Europe, Belgian parliament, British Airways, and Albert II

...among eastern Europeans, Scandinavians and, of course, the British. He has led Belgium for less than a year. He was summoned last December by King Albert II to try to salvage the country amid speculation it might split apart due to...

In this article: Herman Van Rompuy, EU, Belgium, Christian Democratic, Tax, Catholic University of Leuven, Catherine Ashton, Fredrik Reinfeldt, and Albert II

...ET," she wrote recently. A year ago, Mr Van Rompuy was drifting towards retirement before he was plucked from obscurity by King Albert II in one the periodic crises that threatened to split the country's Flemish and French-speaking...

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