What’s cooking? An 8 days recap.
It’s been a week since little Belgium woke up to a new political reality. An explosion of analyses, opinions, forecasts and suggestions have been spilled all over the media. Let’s refresh and make a recap…
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European election, Belgian results: same same but different
Analyzing the EU elections on the European level is a very difficult task. The results are so fragmented and contradictory that it’s almost impossible to give one coherent explanation of what just happened or what…
King Phillip invites Vlaams Belang to Royal Palace
After days of speculation King Philippe invited the winners on the extreme sides of the political spectrum to the palace. A first time for Vlaams Belang. The power of the Belgian king has become very…
Wallonia: loss for PS but still biggest party
Technical issues caused a delay in correct results for the election results on the French speaking side. Earlier polling results suggested a historic defeat for the socialists but this proved incorrect. Although the party of…
Vlaams Belang big winner of elections. Now what?
It was expected that Vlaams Belang would benefit from the growing popularity of extremist populists throughout Europe, but nobody expected this result. Vlaams Belang grows with double digits and becomes Flanders’ second party. Party leader…
Walloon side: PS plummets, greens win and decent results for CDH & MR
Struck by several corruption scandals in the last few years, it was expected for PS to lose some ground. But nowhere near the 13% loss that first results indicate. This would mean that for the…
First Results: national conservatives and extreme right set to win on Flemish side.
Polling sections have closed at most places and the first -incomplete- results are getting in. On the Flemish side Vlaams Belang will likely be the biggest surprise of this election. They were rising in the…
More than a difference in style between Flanders and Wallonia.
Completely bizarre? Welcome to Belgium where the public broadcast is split up between the Dutch speaking community and the French speaking community with their own TV and radio stations. But they are still both housed, for now, in the big building near the so called ‘Reyers Tower’.
Resurfaced audio recording corners N-VA
By Tijs De Geyndt Commotion yesterday as a recording surfaced in which party leader Bart De Wever (NV-A) explains to his members how he, in his position as Mayor of Antwerp, works together with the…
Forecast for Europe
By Tijs De Geyndt The results of the different parties on the European list are usually in line with the percentages on other levels. Belgium will have 21 MEPs, as in the 2014 elections, their…