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The European Digital Services Act is welcome, but must not stifle SMEs

15 December 2020

The European N-VA delegation welcomes the Commission’s proposal on the Digital Services Act. “There’s an urgent need for uniform, transparent rules to protect consumers and provide legal certainty for companies,” says N-VA delegation head Geert Bourgeois. “In order to play a role on the world stage …

Send a Christmas card to Catalonia

14 December 2020

For the third time in a row, seven men and two women are spending Christmas behind bars because they are defending an independent Catalonia. This is reprehensible for a European constitutional state. The N-VA is continuing to work for their release. Show your solidarity You too can support them …

Geert Bourgeois on Brexit: “85% of European Brexit support must go to Flanders.”

13 December 2020

“If you looked at it rationally, you’d say that it’s in everyone’s interests to come to an agreement,” said MEP and former Flemish Minister-President Geert Bourgeois, speaking about the Brexit negotiations again on the Zevende Dag television programme. “A no-deal Brexit means a loss for everyone,” …

Geert Bourgeois continues to hope for a Brexit agreement: “Negotiate to the last second”

11 December 2020

“I hope there will be another final offensive.” MEP Geert Bourgeois pleaded once again on the radio programme Andermaal for pragmatism and flexibility now that the Brexit negotiations are entering a crucial phase. An agreement between the European Union and the United Kingdom is not yet in sight …

What the N-VA thinks about the 2021 Defence operational plan

10 December 2020

The N-VA sees both good and worrying things in the operational plan proposed in the Parliamentary Committee on Defence. “The fight against terrorism remains central to our foreign military operations. We need to be careful with hornet’s nest Mali. “Our Ministry of Defence is not a subdivision of …

Not Brussels, but Bucharest will soon be home to the European Cybersecurity Centre