The Belgian parliament agreed to provide an additional budget of €1 billion to tackle the consequences of coronavirus.

The Constitution does not mention the Federal Parliament as such; it stipulates that the federal legislative power is exercised by the King and the Chamber of Representatives, and d

Summary title: Petition No 0653/2020 by Rene Jusczyk (Belgian), on behalf of the Open Borders Europe association, bearing 2 signatures, on the Schengen system and measures taken during the COVID-19 crisis. Think again. Topics: Internal Market - Free movement of persons The 2007–2011 Belgian political crisis was a period of tense communal relations and political instability in Belgium, which was rooted in the differing opinions on state reform, and in the continued existence of the controversial electoral district of Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde. The extra money should help both the health sector as well as companies and employees who suffer from the economic impact. Meanwhile, the Belgian government will take a much-needed pause for the holidays. Even though the largest parties eventually managed to form a government, some nine months after last year's… The Belgian Federal Parliament is the bicameral parliament of Belgium. Petition number: 0653/2020. And then an unexpected — and in Belgian politics, unprecedented — debate took center stage in the coalition: Belgium’s place on the world stage. Belgian Prime Minister Sophie Wilmes during a plenary session of Belgian Parliament in Brussels, Belgium, 12 March 2020.

It consists of the Chamber of Representatives and the Senate. The new law contains a series of measures designed to prepare the country for the eventuality that the United Kingdom will definitively leave the European Union at the end of the transition period in December without having reached an agreement with the EU.

Thought the Belgian Crisis was averted with the inauguration of a new government? The new Belgian set-up immediately facilitated new measures. The trickiest question of them all yesterday forced a scheduled Parliament session today to be cancelled, to the tune of cries of foul. The federal parliament this week approved a bill intended to ensure the continuity of employment in Belgium in the event of a hard Brexit.

It sits in the Palace of the Nation. In the meantime, the caretaker government will have to seek a new agreement with parliament to cover the most urgent federal expenses until April when the government is dissolved 40 days before the elections. The Chamber of Representatives is the primary legislative body; the Senate functions only as a meeting place of the federal communities and regions. Still, Michel managed to escape crisis after crisis, so much so that he saw himself nicknamed the “Houdini” prime minister.