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1 The National Bank of Belgium still exists but many functions have been taken over by the ECB. The National Bank of Belgium ( NBB; Dutch: Nationale Bank van België, French: Banque nationale de Belgique, German: Belgische Nationalbank) is the Belgian member of the Eurosystem. It was established by a law of 5 May 1850 and has been the monetary ...
A familiar face on Belgian television, Van Der Veken's career began in 1956. He made well over 100 appearances. One of his most popular roles was that of Paul Thienpondt in the comedy series De Collega's. More recently, he has appeared in such popular Belgian TV series as Spoed, Alle maten, and Lili & Marleen.
At the time of the independence of Belgium from the Netherlands in 1830, Belgium's territory simply consisted of the existing nine southern provinces. The first article of the Belgian Constitution said: "Belgium is divided into provinces. These provinces are Antwerp, Brabant, West Flanders, East Flanders, Hainaut, Liège, Limburg, Luxembourg ...
535,000,000 Euro (2016) Owner. Belgian State. Website. www.belfius.com. Belfius Bank and Insurance, known as Dexia Bank Belgium until 1 March 2012, [1] is a Belgian state-owned bank that emerged from the dismantling of the Dexia group which had been purchased by the Belgian government on 10 October 2011 for 4 billion euros.
The Workers' Party of Belgium (French: Parti du Travail de Belgique, PTB; Dutch: Partij van de Arbeid van België, PVDA; lit. ' Labour Party of Belgium ') is a Marxist and socialist political party in Belgium.
Morris introduced the term in 1964 when he started a series about the history of comics in Spirou. Belgium's comic-strip culture has been called by Time magazine "Europe's richest", while the Calgary Sun calls Belgium "the home of the comic strip". Belgium has several museums dedicated to comic books, comic book heroes and their authors.
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.