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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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…
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 the Federal Government
By Tijs De Geyndt On the Federal level the Dutch speaking parties and the French speaking parties have to reach a governmental agreement to form a majority coalition. The current government was formed by N-VA…