On Thursday, May 7, 2015, Her Majesty Queen Mathilde of Belgium presided over the 2015 Prix Reine Mathilde, a prize which is awarded annually to an organization which deals with vulnerable young people in society, at the Palais Royal in Brussels. This year the award went to Kruiskenshoeve from East Flanders.
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On May 6, 2015, Her Royal Highness Princess Elisabeth of Belgium accompanied by her parents, Their Majesties King Philippe and Queen Mathilde of Belgium, baptized the new P902 patrol ship, Pollux, at the Zeebrugge Naval Base in West Flanders.
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On Tuesday, May 5, 2015, His Majesty King Philippe of Belgium visited the headquarters of the telecommunications company, Proximus, in Brussels.
During today’s brief visit His Majesty met with staff as well as interns. As he toured the headquarters His Majesty discovered “…new technologies the company [has] invested in. A virtual reality glasses project, for example, took up 15% or 1 billion euros of Proximus’s turnover…” notes the Belgian newspaper, Flandre Info.
On Monday, May 4, 2015, Her Majesty Queen Mathilde of Belgium accompanied by Count Yvan de Launoit attended the first session of the first round of the 2015 Concours Reine Elisabeth (Queen Elisabeth Violin Competition) held at the Flagey in Brussels.
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On April 21, 2015, Their Majesties King Philippe and Queen Mathilde of Belgium arrived in Strasbourg, France for a one-day visit.
The day began with a visit to the Council of Europe. Whilst there the reigning couple held a meeting with the Secretary General Council of Europe, Mr. Thorbjorn Jagland, as well as with the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Ms. Anne Brasseur.
Thereafter, Their Majesties attended a plenary session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). According to the official website for PACE His Majesty gave a speech in which he:
“…called for the establishment and preservation of a decent society, expressing his regret at ‘too many situations in which men and women are not treated with dignity’. These shameful attitudes, which we were acquiring in particular when faced with the pressures of migration, were not just held by private individuals but also by institutions, he said, pointing to the recent tragedies in the Mediterranean.
[His Majesty went on to note that] in order to build and preserve a decent society, there was a need to ‘reconnect with our vision of human beings in their entirety’, namely independent individuals, free of any external interference, but at the same time receptive to others and the world around them, shaping themselves in a spirit of respect and tolerance.”
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On Wednesday, April 1, 2015, His Majesty King Philippe of Belgium visited the Beauvechain Air Base in Beauvechain. During today’s visit His Majesty met with various military personnel as well as co-piloted the new NH-90 helicopter.
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On Wednesday, February 25, 2015, Their Majesties King Philippe and Queen Mathilde of Belgium visited the institutions of the European Union in Brussels.
The reigning couple began their visit at the European Parliament where they met with its President, Mr. Martin Schulz, and held a meeting with several leaders of various political groups according to the Belgian royal court. Thereafter, the reigning couple visited the European Commission as well as met with members of the Council of the European Union including its President, Mr. Donald Tusk.
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The Royal Correspondent 