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Ten senators are co-opted, meaning they are elected by their peers: six by the Dutch-language group of the Senate and four by the French-language group of the Senate. These seats are distributed proportionally between parties based on the results of the latest direct election of the Chamber of Representatives (federal level).
The Chamber of Representatives (Dutch: Kamer van Volksvertegenwoordigers, French: Chambre des Représentants, German: Abgeordnetenkammer) holds its plenary meetings in the Palace of the Nation in Brussels (see below). Eligibility requirements for the Chamber are a minimum age of 21, citizenship, and residency in Belgium.
The Senate (Dutch: Eerste Kamer der Staten-Generaal [ˈeːrstə ˈkaːmər dɛr ˈstaːtə(ŋ) ɣeːnəˈraːl], literally "First Chamber of the States General", or simply Eerste Kamer [ˈeːrstə ˈkaːmər] ⓘ; sometimes Senaat ⓘ) is the upper house of the States General, the legislature of the Netherlands.
The English phrases "States General" is probably a literal translation of the Dutch word. [3] Historically, the same term was used for the name of other national legislatures as, for example, the Catalan and Valencian Generalitat and the Estates General of France during the Ancien Régime .
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English has also now become a language which is widely understood and used in business and cultural activities, and is supplanting French in this regard. Veldeke, the medieval property of the family of Hendrik van Veldeke , was near Hasselt, along the river Demer, to the west of Kuringen.
Nederlands: In sabel een leeuw van zilver, getongd van keel, geklauwd, gekroond en gehalsband van goud, de halsband voorzien van een kruisje van hetzelfde. Schildhouders: de zittende Maagd van Gent van natuurlijke kleur, de linkerarm rustend op de linkerschouder van een zittende leeuw van Gent, de banier van Vlaanderen tussen beiden.
The Dutch word schepen comes from the Old Saxon word scepino 'judge' and is related to German Schöffe 'lay magistrate'. In early Medieval Latin used in France, it was scabinus . Originally, the word referred to member of a council of "deciders" – literally, "judgment finders" ( oordeelvinders ) – that sat at a mandatory public assembly ...