The wonderful health care benefits of Belgium

Posted on February 3rd, 2008

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!If I were an American, I would be loving Hillary Clinton just about now simply because of her comprehensive health care proposal that, even though a bit steeper on the pocket, is designed to benefit the entire populace. [...]

 

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Tags: , Belgium, health care, hospital
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14-weeks of school holidays: Belgian children live it up

Posted on January 3rd, 2008

So many religious feasts and national holidays and not enough people in the churches to celebrate them. Why should they? The beach resorts and ski resorts are much more beckoning. Belgium is a land of so many holidays. Public national holidays are quite numerous, and along with the mandatory 30 days holiday for all [...]

 

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Tags: Belgium, Feest vakantie dag & Hemelvaart, Herfstvakantie, holiday, Kerstmis, Krokusvakantie, Nieuwjaar, Paasmandaag, Paasvakantie, Pinkstermaandag
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