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37 imagesBrussels Belgium 13 July 2015. European heads of state had a marathon EU summit on the Grexit and made a deal.Greek prime minister Tsipras talks to the overwhelming press at the end of the meeting in front of the European flag and a blue screen
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18 imagesPresident of the Europgroup makes an o.k. sign using his fingers. The Eurogroup will discuss their new proposals by the Greek authorities.Eurogroup meets during a round table meeting of eurozone finance ministers in Brussels. The Eurogroup will discuss new proposals by the Greek authorities.
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16 imagesBrussels Tuesday 7 July 2015 an extra EU summit meeting of the European heads of state concerning the referendum held in Greece two day earlier.Prime minister Tsipras of Greece leaves the summit and makes a happy gesture simulating a Sirtaki (Greek dance), to the press. Photographed through a window reflecting bodyguards outside
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22 imagesBrussels Belgium 07 July 2015. European Finance ministers meet at a Eurogroup in Brussels one day after the Greek No to Austerity in their referendum. The new Greek Finance minister Euclid Tsakalotos replaces Yanis Varoufakis for the first time trying to avoid Grexit
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27 imagesBrussels Belgium 29 June 2015.The President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, has been defending his role in the Greek funding crisis. Speaking at a news conference in Brussels, Mr Juncker said that he had done everything he could to facilitate a solution and that he felt personally "a little betrayed" by the events leading up to Greece withdrawing from negotiations and calling a referendum on the issue.
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8 imagesBrussels Belgium 29 June 2015.A group of Tibetans protested at the European Head Quarters at the start of the EU China summit. Signs stating President Xi of China should meet the Dalai Lama, leader of all Tibetans, were held.He is having his 80th anniversary tomorrow.A girl holds the Tibetan flag in front of the Berlaymont building
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14 imagesBelgium Brussels 19 June 2015 Official ceremony with the post chaise party at the Royal War Museum.The ride Commemorates the journey of the New Waterloo Dispatch, carrying the news, and a captured French eagle banner. An actor in period uniform representing Major Harry Percy carries a modern interpretation of Wellington’s Dispatch from Waterloo back to London.Prince Laurent of Belgium
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21 imagesBrussels Belgium 17 June 2015. The Duchess of Richmond's ball was re-enacted as on 15 June 1815, the night before the Battle of Quatre Bras. Organized by Charlotte, Duchess of Richmond wife of Charles Lennox, 4th Duke of Richmond,who was in command of a reserve force in Brussels. On that very night the allied stopped dancing to go to Quatre Bras to fight Napoleon's army.
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85 images20150614 Ligny Belgium. The Battle of Ligny (16 June 1815) was the last victory of the military career of Napoleon I.Today it was re-enacted by 1500 people just a few days before the 200th birth day of Napoleon's final loss at Waterloo.
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14 images2015-06-11 Ministers Sven Gatz en Pascal Smet spreken het personeel van BDW en FM Brussel toe tijdens een persconferentie in de Beursschouwburg.De ministers beloofden de raad van bestuur en de omstreden CEO Michel Tubbax te vragen de radiozender in de lucht te houden.
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32 images20150607 Brussels Belgium a few hundred protesters occupy the center of Brussels. This urban picknick is to gain a carfree city center. This will actually happen in a few months after protests like these, but for these people changes aren't enough.
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22 imagesBelgium, Vieux-Genappe near Waterloo on 4th of June 2015. Official reopening of this former farm, now a museum where Emperor Napoleon and his staff spent the night of 17th June 1815. The last night before the battle of Waterloo
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30 images18 april 2015 Almelo Netherlands. About 600 re-enactors made the historical defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte revive in Almelo. This was the biggest event before the bicentennial festivities of the battle in Waterloo taking place in Belgium this summer.
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18 imagesCelebration at the monument of the Hannovers in Plancenoit, Waterloo on 24th april 2015.The ambassador of Germany to Belgium dr. Eckart Cuntz and a group of enactors and Germans placed flowers. On the monument is written: To the memory of their companions in arms who gloriously fell on the memorable 18th of jun 1815. This monument is erected by the officers of the Kings German legion.a
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34 images24/04/2015 Belgium GENAPPE - Monument Brunswick has been restored with private and federal funds for the bicentennial of the battle of Waterloo where Napoleon was defeated by the allies 200 years ago. german embassador dr. Eckart Cuntz. and others were at the momument to celebrate it's restoration and to remember the battle.
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9 imagesBelgian Queen Mathilde on crutches at European Parliament
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15 imagesApril 23, 2015 in Brussels. European leaders gather on April 23 to consider military action, at an extraordinary summit to deal with a worsening migration crisis after a series of deadly shipwrecks in the Mediterranean.The Italian press room at the commission is being prepared for the next press conference.This man with cable looks like a sailor with a line.
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37 imagesDemonstratie van de speciale eenheden van de federale politie en debriefing bij bezoek van ministers Charles Michel en Jan Jambon.
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11 imagesBrussels April 9 2015. A group of Congolese protesters in Brussels gathered in front of the RDC Congolese embassy. they asked for attention of the killed students in the university of Kenya and were angry all attention went to the Charlie Hebdo attacks and not to this terrorist attack. a massgrave found in maluku, next to kinshasha was another reason to protest against Kabila.
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20 images2 March 2015 A group of about 150 Syrians in Brussels hold a rally againt IS, ISIS ,ISL.They represent the Syriac Military Council, a small group of Christian fighters opposing the ISIS army in the Khabour region in the Al-Jazeera Canton of Syria where SMC MFS forces were stationed and captured by ISI on 23 february. The protestors ask the EU governements to help with arms to oppose to ISIS in these parts of Syria.Young assyrian protesters at Place Luxembourg
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41 imagesBrussels 20 february 2015 meeting of the ministers of Finance of the Eurogroup concerning the letter of Greece. Yanis Varoufakis,the Greek finance minister photographed, and a funny sequence with Dijsselbloem eating M&M's donated by Lagarde.
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20 imagesGreek minister of Finance Mr. Varoufakis Minister could be photographed by me prior to the meeting (though he was very fast!) and will be the main subject of the meeting, with the new Greek government and a possible Grexit on the agenda.