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Bart De Wever reiterates the importance of identity: “Society can only be at peace when people see each other as players on the same team.”

22 June 2020

“I don’t believe for a second that Flemings are racist.” On the TV programme Terzake, N-VA Chairman Bart De Wever once again stressed the importance of identity as a response to racism and discrimination in Flanders. “Peace and balance come when you have a society that is based on a healthy …

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Assita Kanko wants Europe to confront China on Hong Kong: “The EU threatens to become geopolitically irrelevant.”

19 June 2020

“If the European Commission continues to bow down to Beijing, it will never become the geopolitical commission it promised to be. China is allowed by Europe to put on a free PR show, while it restricts democracy in its own backyard. The EU must act.” MEP Assita Kanko wants Europe to seize the …

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Zuhal Demir becomes the European Vice-President of climate network Regions4

18 June 2020
Zuhal Demir

Flemish Environment Minister Zuhal Demir has been elected Vice-President for Europe by the members of Regions4. Regions4 is a network of regional governments that focuses on the themes of climate change, biodiversity and sustainable development. “It is important that the different regions of the …

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Geert Bourgeois calls for expansion of the EU Recovery Fund: “Solidarity with the South? Then regarding Brexit too.”

15 June 2020
Brexit

“From day one, it was clear that Brexit in any form is disastrous for our Flemish economy.” MEP Geert Bourgeois is calling for the expansion of the EU’s recovery programme for Member States and federal states that will be severely affected by Brexit on top of the coronavirus crisis. “It would be …

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Falling export figures confirm it: the coronavirus crisis is hurting Flanders

15 June 2020
Jan Jambon

Down 7.5%. This is (so far) the impact of the coronavirus on the Flemish export figures in March this year. Flemish Minister-President Jan Jambon is making international trade one of the key issues in the recovery plan that the Flemish Government is preparing. At the same time, he wants to protect …

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Leopold II is part of the uncomfortable truth of who we are. We can’t erase him

13 June 2020
Assita Kanko

“As a black woman, I have never been defined by words like diversity, inclusion and quotas. I am not the product of inadequate government policy, historical ignorance or online hate. I am the product of my own hard work and ambition, and my parents’ belief that the sky was the limit,” says Member …

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