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Belgium country news

Brussels Airlines, created when SN Brussels Airlines and Virgin Express merged in March 2007, has reportedly been hosting talks with the German airline Lufthansa about... full story

Women networking for better, equal pay

Lawmakers demand royal family allowance be cut

Employers plan a business route for Brussels

Delhaize on a buying spree in Romania and Greece – 85 mln

Francophones don’t show up much in new government

New Federal government

Invest in Belgium launched, please ignore the politics

UCB’s Crohn’s drug ‘Cimzia’ closer to getting approval

National Bank and Belgium join Target2

Political

Delizee replaces Laloux as State Secretary

Following Frederic Laloux’s resignation on April 19, Jean-Marc Delizee, a colleague from the Francophone Socialist Party (PS), was sworn in as State Secretary the next... full story

175 years of US-Belgian relations built on economy

French frontier-workers tax regime upsets employers

IMF cautions aging economies

Budgetary struggles

Reynders lobbies for a 2009 tax-cut

Brammertz named Prosecutor at War Crimes Tribunal

Day 149 passes without a government, a record

De Gucht wants worldwide end to cluster munitions

Government? Who needs a government? None here yet

more political news...

Business

National rail has improved its track record

In the SNCB’s latest challenge to establish a new social agreement with the trade unions, a workers strike on April 30 was cancelled a couple... full story

Duval Guillaume advertises for Brussels Airlines

BASE increases clients but loses income

Electrabel is fined 120 million Euro for underuse

Agfa-Gevaert is rafting over troubled waters

Umicore income up 15%, but president is leaving

Solvay to buy all Innogenetics stocks for some 183 mln Euro

The ABN Amro Fortis tumult goes on and on

Belgacom privatisation shows no signs of stopping just yet

KBC takes its business on the road to Romania and Russia

Economic

There’s trouble balancing this budget this year

The European Commission calculated that Belgium’s 2008 budget would generate a 0.4 percent of GDP deficit. The government’s budget balance was based on a “rather... full story

Financial fraud on the rise, but it can’t hide from tax man

Trichet sounds off on wage indexation, false alarm?

OECD records slow productivity growth

Automobile association discourages diesel use

Purchasing power unequal in the regions

Employment flash: lots of jobs coming

Poverty hits 1.5 mln

Overloaded trucks fined

Corporate improvements

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Bylines & Interviews

Russia’s Energy Build: Leverage, not Threats
By Chris Weafer, Chief strategist at UralSib Bank in Moscow

Azerbaijan creates alternatives, not competition
interview with Heydar Babayev, Azerbaijan’s Minister of Economic Development

Obama rises above racial politics in the United States
By Ray Bawarch, US-based author of the novel, “The Dirt People”

Towards a reform of the World Trade Organization
By MEP Prof. Dr. Georgios Papastamkos

IMF foresaw US mortgage crisis
By Lorenzo Bini Smaghi, ECB executive board member

IMF should ration loan conditions
By Alex Wilks, Eurodad coordinator, director Brussels office

Triple crisis, few solutions
By Peter Chowla, IMF specialist

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