Yves Leterme

...divided country after taking charge in December 2008 after 18 months of turmoil under predecessor and fellow Christian Democrat Yves Leterme. He had been president of the lower house of parliament from July 2007 and was at times...

In this article: Herman Van Rompuy, Christian Democrat, Brussels, Economics, Philosophy, Recession, and Catholic University of Leuven

...currently 38. French-speakers in Belgium, a country of 10.6 million people, have expressed dismay at the potential return of Leterme, whose initial nine-month struggle to form a government prompted media speculation about the country...

In this article: Herman Van Rompuy, Belgium, European Union, Brussels, Le Soir, Paralysis, and Universite Libre de Bruxelles

...has left the country's political arena. Van Rompuy came into office only months ago, when his predecessor and fellow party member Yves Leterme, the current minister of foreign affairs, had to resign over accusations of attempting to...

In this article: Herman Van Rompuy, Belgium, European Union, Guy Verhofstadt, and Flanders

...such as Turkey." Mr Van Rompuy was originally reluctant to take on the post of Belgian prime minister at the end of 2008. He replaced Yves Leterme, who resigned amid a financial scandal last December after just nine months in the job. He...

In this article: EU, Europe, Belgium, Turkey, Christian Democrat, Federalism, Christianity, Islamic, and Tax

...About the Stimulus Package.") Appointed Prime Minister in December 2008 the country's third in less than a year (his predecessor, Yves Leterme, stepped down after nine months amid allegations that his aides exerted improper influence...

In this article: Herman Van Rompuy, Europe, Belgium, Turkey, Allegation, Christianity, Islamic, Belgium's Parliament, and Catholic University of Leuven

...difficult dance, thanks to his success to keeping the Flemish and the Walloons away from one another's throats. His predecessor Yves Leterme threw in the towel after tensions between the country's two language groups ran out of control and...

In this article: EU, Peter Mandelson, Jean Claude Juncker, Nicholas Sarkozy, Brussels, Tony Blair, and Jan Peter Balkenende

...the conference. The conference will be inaugurated by Overseas Indian Affairs Minister Vayalar Ravi and Belgian Foreign Minister Yves Leterme. According to India's ambassador to EU Jaimini Bhagwati, the aim is to have a partnership...

In this article: European Union, India, Brussels, and Janssen Pharmaceutica

...Opel aid called by former Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt. Another former Belgian prime minister and now foreign minister Yves Leterme engaged European counterparts on the Opel issue on Sunday. The Commission said it expected to...

In this article: Opel, Magna, Antwerp, Germany, General Motors, Cash flow, and Flanders

...54,000 strong workforce is located in Germany; the Spanish have the next highest number of Opel employees at around 7,000. Leterme said he had also met with Bernd Pfaffenbach, state secretary in Germany's Economy Ministry, to insist that...

In this article: General Motors, Opel, Magna, European Union, Germany, GM Europe, Sberbank, and Guy Verhofstadt