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Hace 22 horas · Belgium is a constitutional, popular monarchy and a federal parliamentary democracy. The bicameral federal parliament is composed of a Senate and a Chamber of Representatives. The former is made up of 50 senators appointed by the parliaments of the communities and regions and 10 co-opted senators.
Hace 3 días · Molenbeek-Saint-Jean (French, pronounced [molœnbek sɛ̃ ʒɑ̃,-bɛk-] ⓘ) or Sint-Jans-Molenbeek (Dutch, pronounced [sɪɲˈcɑns ˈmoːlə(m)ˌbeːk] ⓘ), often simply called Molenbeek, is one of the 19 municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium.
Hace 5 días · On this day, 18 November 1889, King Leopold II organised an anti-slavery conference in Brussels. Rather than being a key moment for abolitionism in Europe, it helped secure the 'Scramble for Africa'. Throughout the 19th century, the anti-slave trade movement was in full swing in Europe.
Hace 4 días · Failing to enlist British interests in the development of the Congo region, Stanley took service with the king of Belgium, Leopold II, whose secret ambition it was to annex the region for himself. From August 1879 to June 1884 Stanley was in the Congo basin, where he built a road from the lower Congo up to Stanley Pool and launched ...
- Dorothy Middleton
Hace 5 días · But in Belgium, Father Damian was admired both during his lifetime and even more after his death in 1889. “The first statue of him was raised in Leuven in 1894,” explains history professor Idesbald Goddeeris at KU Leuven. “When his bodily remains were brought back to Belgium in 1936, they were received by the Belgian king.
Hace 5 días · One of Belgium’s oldest cities and the historic capital of Flanders, Ghent was powerful, well-organized in its wealthy trade guilds, and virtually independent until 1584.
Hace 5 días · Roger Lallemand, a prominent socialist politician and lifelong freemason led the drive to legalise abortion in 1990. In 2002 Belgium was one of the first countries in the world to legalize euthanasia, and again, freemasons were on the ethical front line facing down the Catholic church in that debate.
