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2008 In Belgium
The following lists events that happened during 2008 in the Kingdom of Belgium. Incumbents *Monarch: Albert II *Prime Minister: ** until 20 March: Guy Verhofstadt ** 20 March-30 December: Yves Leterme ** starting 30 December: Herman Van Rompuy Events March * March 2 - Bruno Valkeniers is chosen as party chairman of political party Vlaams Belang with 94.6% of the vote. * March 20 - Leterme I Government sworn in after 9 months of negotiations. April * April 12 - Standard Liège beat Anderlecht 2–0 at home and win the First Division. May * May 8 - Club Brugge player François Sterchele dies in a car crash. September * September 22 - Political parties CD&V and N-VA end their collaboration. Geert Bourgeois resigns from the Flemish government. October * October 5 - Rik Ceulemans is the first Belgian to win the Marathon of Brussels in 2:19.29. December * December 22 - Albert II accepts Yves Leterme's resignation as Prime Minister * December 28 - During a Taizé Community mee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2008
File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing; the 2008 Sichuan earthquake kills over 87,000; a destroyed Georgian T-72 tank during the Russo-Georgian War; the Trident Hotel in Mumbai was the site of the November 2008 Mumbai attacks;a line of detritus in a backyard made during the December, 2008 resulting from the Kingston Fossil Plant coal fly ash slurry spill ; Poster in Pristina celebrating the 2008 Kosovo declaration of independence, Independence of Kosovo from Serbia., 300x300px, thumb rect 0 0 200 200 Subprime mortgage crisis rect 200 0 400 200 Cyclone Nargis rect 400 0 600 200 2008 Summer Olympics rect 0 200 300 400 2008 Kosovo declaration of independence rect 300 200 600 400 2008 Sichuan earthquake rect 0 400 200 600 Kingston Fossil Plant coal fly ash slurry spill rect 200 400 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geert Bourgeois
Geert Albert Bourgeois (; born 6 July 1951) is a Belgian politician of the New Flemish Alliance (N-VA), which he founded in 2001, who is currently serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2019. He previously served as the Minister-President of Flanders from 2014 to 2019. Prior to this, he was a member of the federal Chamber of Representatives for the People's Union from 1995 to 2001, and then for the N-VA from 2001 to 2004. He has been involved in local and regional politics in Flanders since 1976. Biography Geert Bourgeois’s father, Emiel Bourgeois, was born in Hulste on 10 October 1918, towards the end of the First World War. He went on to work as a primary school teacher. After the Second World War he was accused of collaboration and spent some time in prison. He was subsequently rehabilitated and appointed headmaster at the primary school where he had previously been teaching. He died in 1998. Emiel Bourgeois married Izegem-born Gaby Vens (1920-2015), with who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2008 In Belgium
The following lists events that happened during 2008 in the Kingdom of Belgium. Incumbents *Monarch: Albert II *Prime Minister: ** until 20 March: Guy Verhofstadt ** 20 March-30 December: Yves Leterme ** starting 30 December: Herman Van Rompuy Events March * March 2 - Bruno Valkeniers is chosen as party chairman of political party Vlaams Belang with 94.6% of the vote. * March 20 - Leterme I Government sworn in after 9 months of negotiations. April * April 12 - Standard Liège beat Anderlecht 2–0 at home and win the First Division. May * May 8 - Club Brugge player François Sterchele dies in a car crash. September * September 22 - Political parties CD&V and N-VA end their collaboration. Geert Bourgeois resigns from the Flemish government. October * October 5 - Rik Ceulemans is the first Belgian to win the Marathon of Brussels in 2:19.29. December * December 22 - Albert II accepts Yves Leterme's resignation as Prime Minister * December 28 - During a Taizé Community mee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2008 In Belgian Television
This is a list of Belgian television related events from 2008. Events *9 March - Ishtar are selected to represent Belgium at the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest with their song "O Julissi". They are selected to be the fiftieth Belgian Eurovision entry during Eurosong held at the VRT Studios in Schelle. *4 June - ''Sara'' actor Antony Arandia and his partner Leila Akcelik win the third season of ''Sterren op de Dansvloer''. *17 December - Dirk De Smet wins the second and final season of '' X Factor''. Debuts Television shows 1990s *''Samson en Gert'' (1990–present) *'' Familie'' (1991–present) *''Thuis'' (1995–present) 2000s *'' Idool'' (2003-2011) *''Mega Mindy'' (2006–present) *''Sterren op de Dansvloer'' (2006–2013) Ending this year *'' Wittekerke'' (1993-2008) *'' X Factor'' (2005-2008) Births Deaths Networks and services Launches Conversions and rebrandings Closures See also *2008 in Belgium The following lists events that happened during 2008 in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Schruers
Paul Schruers (1929–2008) was the second Bishop of Hasselt in Belgium. Life Schruers was born in Hasselt on 25 October 1929. He experienced a sense of religious vocation from the age of 16. He studied at the minor seminary in Sint-Truiden and the Diocesan Seminary of Liège, where he was ordained to the priesthood in 1954. From 1957 to 1967 he was professor of dogmatic theology at the Diocesan Seminary in Liège. He was appointed vicar general when the diocese of Hasselt was founded in 1967, and auxiliary bishop in 1970. On 15 December 1989 he succeeded Jozef Heusschen as bishop. Pope John Paul II accepted his resignation on 25 October 2004. After a brain haemorrhage in May 2008 he never fully recovered. He died on 25 August 2008 and was buried at Klaarland Priory on 2 September, after a funeral mass in Hasselt Cathedral St. Quentin's Cathedral ( nl, Sint-Quintinuskathedraal), also called Hasselt Cathedral, is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Hasselt Belgium. Its constructi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Demoulin
Robert Demoulin (1911–2008) was a professor of contemporary Belgian history at the University of Liège. Life Demoulin was born in Huy on 8 May 1911. He attended a state secondary school in Huy, and then the University of Liège, where he studied history.Vincent Genin, "Demoulin, Robert", in ''Nouvelle Biographie Nationale''vol. 13(Brussels, 2016), pp. 100-102. He graduated Ph.D. in 1932, with a thesis on the Belgian Revolution of 1830. In the mid-1930s he prospected in archives in Paris, London and The Hague, attending Charles Webster's seminar at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and François Simiand's lectures at the Collège de France. In 1938 he succeeded Herman Vander Linden lecturing on Belgian and contemporary history in Liège. He was called up as a lieutenant in the reserves in 1940, and spent much of the Second World War as a prisoner of war in Germany, organising courses and lectures for fellow prisoners. In absentia he was appointed full profe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mathilde Of Belgium
Mathilde (born ''Jonkvrouw'' Mathilde Marie Christine Ghislaine d'Udekem d'Acoz ; 20 January 1973) is Queen of the Belgians as the wife of King Philippe. She is the first native-born Belgian queen. She has founded and assisted charities to decrease poverty in the country. Early life and family Mathilde Marie Christine Ghislaine d'Udekem d'Acoz was born on 20 January 1973 at Edith Cavell Hospital in Uccle, Belgium. Her parents are Count and Countess Patrick d'Udekem d'Acoz. Mathilde has three sisters: Marie-Alix, Elisabeth and Hélène, and one brother Charles-Henri. Upon Mathilde's marriage to Prince Philippe of Belgium, the Duke of Brabant in 1999, King Albert II of Belgium elevated the d'Udekem d'Acoz family from the baronial to the comital rank, hereditary in the male lineage. Upon the accession of her husband, Prince Philippe, Duke of Brabant to the throne of Belgium she became the first queen consort of native Belgian nationality. Education and career Mathilde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philippe Of Belgium
french: Philippe Léopold Louis Mariegerman: Philipp Leopold Ludwig Maria , house = Belgium , father = Albert II of Belgium , mother = Paola Ruffo di Calabria , birth_date = , birth_place = Belvédère Castle, Laeken, Brussels, Kingdom of Belgium , religion = Roman Catholicism Philippe or Filip ( nl, Filip Leopold Lodewijk Maria ; french: Philippe Léopold Louis Marie ; born 15 April 1960) is King of the Belgians. He is the eldest child of King Albert II and Queen Paola. He succeeded his father upon the latter's abdication for health reasons on 21 July 2013. He married Mathilde d'Udekem d'Acoz in 1999, with whom he has four children. Their eldest child, Princess Elisabeth, is first in the line of succession. Early life Philippe was born on 15 April 1960 at the Belvédère Castle in Laeken north of Brussels. His father, Prince Albert, Prince of Liège (later King Albert II), was the second son of King Leopold III of Belgium and a younger brot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Princess Eléonore Of Belgium
Princess Eléonore of Belgium (''Eléonore Fabiola Victoria Anne Marie''; born 16 April 2008) is the younger daughter and the youngest of four children of Philippe of Belgium, King Philippe and Queen Mathilde of Belgium. She is currently fourth in Line of succession to the Belgian throne, line to the throne of Belgium after her older siblings Princess Elisabeth, Duchess of Brabant, Prince Gabriel of Belgium, Prince Gabriel, and Prince Emmanuel of Belgium, Prince Emmanuel. Life Princess Eléonore was born on 16 April 2008 at 4:50 at the Erasmus Hospital, the teaching hospital of Université libre de Bruxelles in Anderlecht.De Standaard Online - Prinses Mathilde bevallen van dochtertje Retrieved 16 April 2008. She is the twelfth and youngest grandchild of Albert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Van Rompuy Government
The Van Rompuy Government was the Belgian federal government, federal government of Belgium from 30 December 2008 until 15 November 2009. Herman Van Rompuy was nominated as the first President of the European Council and resigned shortly after as Premier. It took office when the Flemish Christian Democrat Herman Van Rompuy (Christen-Democratisch en Vlaams, Christian Democratic and Flemish, CD&V) was sworn in as Prime Minister of Belgium, Prime Minister after the Leterme I Government fell on 22 December 2008. On 18 December 2008, Yves Leterme offered his government's resignation to Albert II of Belgium, King Albert after a scandal erupted surrounding the investigation of the sale of the failing Fortis bank to BNP Paribas. Leterme, Jo Vandeurzen, and Didier Reynders were accused of violating the separation of powers by trying to influence the Court of Appeals and of exerting improper influence by the First Chairman of the Court of Cassation (Belgium), Court of Cassation. Three days la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Faith
Faith, derived from Latin ''fides'' and Old French ''feid'', is confidence or trust in a person, thing, or In the context of religion, one can define faith as "belief in God or in the doctrines or teachings of religion". Religious people often think of faith as confidence based on a perceived degree of warrant, or evidence while others who are more skeptical of religion tend to think of faith as simply belief without evidence.Russell, Bertrand"Will Religious Faith Cure Our Troubles?" ''Human Society in Ethics and Politics''. Ch 7. Pt 2. Retrieved 16 August 2009. Etymology The English word ''faith'' is thought to date from 1200 to 1250, from the Middle English ''feith'', via Anglo-French ''fed'', Old French ''feid'', ''feit'' from Latin ''fidem'', accusative of ''fidēs'' (trust), akin to ''fīdere'' (to trust). Stages of faith development James W. Fowler (1940–2015) proposes a series of stages of faith-development (or spiritual development) across the human lifespan. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Europe
Europe is a large peninsula conventionally considered a continent in its own right because of its great physical size and the weight of its history and traditions. Europe is also considered a Continent#Subcontinents, subcontinent of Eurasia and it is located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere. Comprising the westernmost peninsulas of Eurasia, it shares the continental landmass of Afro-Eurasia with both Africa and Asia. It is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the west, the Mediterranean Sea to the south and Asia to the east. Europe is commonly considered to be Boundaries between the continents of Earth#Asia and Europe, separated from Asia by the drainage divide, watershed of the Ural Mountains, the Ural (river), Ural River, the Caspian Sea, the Greater Caucasus, the Black Sea and the waterways of the Turkish Straits. "Europe" (pp. 68–69); "Asia" (pp. 90–91): "A commonly accepted division between Asia and E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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