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…
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…
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…
Very heavy elections for little Belgium…
By Tijs De Geyndt On Sunday 26 May there is a lot at stake for the Kingdom of Belgium. Besides the European election, voters are obliged (voting is a duty, not just a right in…