B Plus is a Belgian

Belgium

Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...

 non profit organization which promotes tolerance

Toleration

Toleration is "the practice of deliberately allowing or permitting a thing of which one disapproves. One can meaningfully speak of tolerating, ie of allowing or permitting, only if one is in a position to disallow”. It has also been defined as "to bear or endure" or "to nourish, sustain or preserve"...

 and solidarity between the communities of Belgium. The organization supports federalism

Federalism

Federalism is a political concept in which a group of members are bound together by covenant with a governing representative head. The term "federalism" is also used to describe a system of the government in which sovereignty is constitutionally divided between a central governing authority and...

 as a way to organize the Belgian state. Gilles Vanden Burre is the president of the organization.

The organization has several notable members, such as the politicians Willy Claes

Willy Claes

Willem Werner Hubert "Willy" Claes was the eighth Secretary General of NATO and a Belgian politician. He was a member of the Flemish Socialist Party....

, Ludo Dierickx, Wilfried Martens

Wilfried Martens

Wilfried Martens is a Belgian politician. He was born in Sleidinge . Martens was the 44th Prime Minister of Belgium from 3 April 1979 to 6 April 1981 and 17 December 1981 to 7 March 1992....

, Mark Eyskens

Mark Eyskens

Marc Maria Frans, Viscount Eyskens , known as Mark Eyskens , is a Belgian economist and politician in the Christian People's Party , now called Christian Democratic and Flemish, and briefly served as Prime Minister of Belgium in 1981.-Background:He was born in Leuven, the son of Gaston Eyskens, and...

, Freddy Willockx

Freddy Willockx

Frederik A.A. Willockx is a Belgian socialist politician, member of the Flemish Different Socialist Party.Freddy Willockx was first elected to the Belgian Chamber of Representatives in 1979 and served until 1994...

, Camille Paulus

Camille Paulus

Camille Paulus is a Belgian lawyer and liberal politician. He was governor of the Belgian province of Antwerp from 1 October 1993 until 30 April 2008.-Education:...

, Gaston Onkelinx, Ludwig Vandenhove, Anne-Marie Lizin

Anne-Marie Lizin

Anne-Marie Lizin is a Belgian politician. She used to be member of the Socialist Party but was banned from the party after a corruption case. She was the first female President of the Belgian Senate...

, Hervé Jamar and Pierre Chevalier

Pierre Chevalier

Pierre Chevalier was a well-known caver and mountaineer from France, with many alpine ascents and cave explorations to his credit. Chevalier is principally known for the exploration of the Dent de Crolles cave system over a twelve-year period , which became the deepest cave in the world...

. In addition, several members out of the Belgian business community, such as baron Paul Buysse

Paul Buysse

Paul Henri Maria, Baron Buysse, CMG, CBE is a Belgian businessman. He is the main author of the Belgian Code for Corporate Governance and chairman of the board of directors of Flanders in Action.-Education:...

, baron Maurice Velge, count Jean-Pierre de Launoit, baron Daniel Janssen

Daniel Janssen

Daniel Janssen is a Belgian businessman. He is a son of Charles-Emmanuel Janssen, liberal deputy of Walloon Brabant, and Maya Boël, daughter of the Vice-president of the Senate Pol Boël...

 and Paul-Emmanuel Janssen. Several members from the Belgian cultural world, such as José van Dam

José van Dam

Joseph, Baron van Damme , known as José van Dam, is a Belgian bass-baritone.At the age of 17, he entered the Brussels Royal Conservatory and studied with Frederic Anspach. A year later, he graduated with diplomas and first prizes in voice and opera performance...

, Vitalski, Wim Helsen, barones Monika van Paemel

Monika van Paemel

Baroness Monika van Paemel is a Belgian writer. Born in Poesele, aged 14 she attended the Heilig Graf boarding school in Turnhout, where she graduated in commercial sciences. In 1963 she married Theo Butsen, whome she divorced some years later...

 and Benno Barnard. Several journalists, such as Walter Zinzen, Geert van Istendael

Geert van Istendael

Geert van Istendael is the pseudonym of Geert Maria Mauritius Julianus Vanistendael, a Belgian writer, poet and essayist. He studied sociology and philosophy at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. From 1987 until 1993, he worked as a journalist for the Belgian National Television and since 1993 he...

 and Luc Van der Kelen besides sportspeople such as Jan Peeters

Jan Peeters

Jan Peeters is a Flemish politician and member of the Different Socialist Party . He is a Member of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives and was a Secretary of State for four years. He was a minister for a short while in 1999 following the resignation of Marcel Colla. He is also the Mayor of...

 and Jacky Ickx

Jacky Ickx

Jacques Bernard "Jacky" Ickx is a Belgian former racing driver who achieved 25 podium finishes in Formula One and six wins in the 24 hours of Le Mans.- Racing career :...

. Members from academia, such as Anne Morelli

Anne Morelli

Anne Morelli is a Belgian historian with Italian origins, specialized in the history of religions and minorities. She is currently assistant director of the Interdisciplinary center for study of religion and secularism of the Université Libre de Bruxelles , where she is a teacher.Morelli claims she...

, Raymond Detrez, Jan Blommaert and Sophie de Schaepdrijver

Sophie de Schaepdrijver

Sophie de Schaepdrijver is a Belgian historian.-Education:She graduated in history at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and obtained a PhD with a dissertation on Elites for the Capital? Foreign Migration to mid-nineteenth-century Brussels at the Universiteit van Amsterdam .-Career:From 1986 until...

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• Zinzen, Jamar en Helsen vervoegen B Plus (Dutch)