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The Belgian Chamber of Representatives - Official information about the Federal Parliament of Belgium.
BFTB - The Belgian Foreign Trade Board (BFTB) is a public institution set up in 1948 in order to promote exports of Belgian and Luxembourg industrial goods, techniques and services.
The French-speaking Community - Manages all of the matters related to the individual and the use of the language: culture, education, research, training and other social-related individual matters. Presentation, history, population, language, institutions and political context.
Telsat Guide - Belgian platform on Remote Sensing: images, satellites, projects, organisations, events. Guide for Satellite Information. A service of the Earth Observation Help Desk.
Euregio Scheldemond - The 'Euregio Scheldemond' includes the Provinces of East- and West Flanders in Belgium and the Province of Zealand in the Netherlands. Presentation of this cross-border cooperation between these provinces.
Federal Government of Belgium - Federal official portalsite of government in Belgium. Rooted in the future.
Search.gov.be - This search engine currently contains data of sites related to the Belgian Federal Government.
Federal Parliament - Constitution in English, links to Senate and Chamber of Representatives.
Belgium at the EU Convention - Information about the Belgian representatives to the Convention of the European Union on the Future of Europe. Presentation of their contributions.
Federal Parliament - Senate, Chamber and constitution.
ENIAC - A cell designed to improve coherence between the actions of the European Social Fund (ESF) run in Belgium.
"No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder. -- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises, promotions, and other signs of appreciation. -- Anonymous "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing. -- Salvador Dali Government What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. -- Crowf "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Government Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football. -- John Heisman A problem is a chance for you to do your best. -- Buke Ellington "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle. -- Molly Ivins Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love. -- French saying Government "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. -- Beverly Sills "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Government Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. - Carl Gustav Jung All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others. -- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Government Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. - Napoleon Bonaparte Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. - Napoleon Bonaparte "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Government Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. -- Abraham Lincoln Black holes are where God divided by zero. - Steven Wright "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. -- Tom Robbins Government "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food. -- Anonymous "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Government If a man does his best, what else is there? - General George S. Patton "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Ninety percent of the game is half mental. -- Yogi Berra Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers. -- Socrates "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Government All you need is love. -- The Beatles, song title Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone. -- Anthony Burgess When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones. -- Peter DeVries Government The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing. -- Publilius Syrus Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go. - Oscar Wilde Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. -- John Kenneth Galbraith The gods too are fond of a joke. - Aristotle "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Government The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones. -- W. Somerset Maugham Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century. - Lewis Perelman Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to. -- Shane Leslie Government "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough. -- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Government "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Silence is argument carried out by other means. -- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Government Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine. Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. - Mark Twain I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up. -- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man. -- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting married Sex is God's joke on human beings. -- Bette Davis Government "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to. -- Seen on a t-shirt "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Government Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them. -- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Where there is an unknowable there is a promise. -- Thornton Wilder "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Government I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day. -- Vincent Van Gogh Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it. -- Albert Einstein, attributed Government The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment. -- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact. -- Thomas Henry Huxley Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat. -- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Government Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. -- Oscar Wilde Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it. -- Alvin Toffler Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses. -- Anon. Government Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack. -- Mary Roberts Rhinehart "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes. -- Norman Douglas "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Government "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work. -- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 There is no sincerer love than the love of food. -- George Bernard Shaw Government
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