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Critics point to the selection of Herman Van Rompuy and Catherine Ashton as Europe's President and Foreign Minister as symbolic of a lack of vision. Van Rompuy, a former Belgian Prime Minister, is known for his ability to balance local sensitivities - no small feat in Belgium - and cajole opposing camps towards a consensus. Useful attributes, no doubt, but hardly the ones needed to make the E.U. count on the international stage. Ashton, a former British minister and European trade commissioner, has little experience in foreign affairs. "Van Rompuy and Ashton give the impression of being chosen for their limits...
What was it like to become the first American woman to win gold in an Olympic downhill? -François Xavier Warlomont, Libramont, Belgium It was incredible. I didn't know that an American woman had never won a downhill. When I found that out after winning the race, it was really something special. I was just trying to ski well and accomplish a childhood dream. (See pictures of Lindsey Vonn...
...Belgium's worst railway crash since 1954, a commuter train sped through a red signal and hit an oncoming locomotive on Feb. 15, killing 18 people and injuring more than 100. While investigators have not yet determined the cause of the crash, which happened outside the capital, rail workers and train drivers quickly went on strike to protest poor working conditions that may have led to the collision...
...perform the complicated procedures and that few have received specialized training, according to the survey. And some even say they are ostracized by their colleagues if they perform such surgeries. For these reasons, many transsexuals choose to undergo the procedure - at their own cost - across the border in Belgium, home to some of the best sex-change specialists in the world...
...fair that the U.S.'s efforts to tackle terrorist financing have become embroiled in an argument between E.U. institutions." European and U.S. officials will almost certainly need to craft a different kind of pact now. While Washington could cut individual deals with the banking centers of Belgium, the Netherlands and Switzerland to gain access to their data, officials say a better tactic may be to try an assuage European Parliament concerns over data-protection standards and put the proposal before the body for another vote...