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Philippe Muyters: new kid on the block

29 June 2011

It was an offer he couldn’t refuse. Philippe Muyters swore he would never go into politics, but when the then head of the Flemish chamber of commerce was asked by party colleague Bart de Wever to act as Flemish minister of finance, budget, work, town planning and sports, he rode the N-VA popularity …

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Proposal for stricter nationality laws submitted to Council of State

22 June 2011

The N-VA, Open Vld, CD&V and sp.a are in agreement on making conditions to become a Belgian (citizen) stricter. Nationality laws are linked to integration. With this proposal, Belgium puts itself in line with our neighbouring countries. All parties, including the PS, cdh and MR, have agreed to …

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Uniform European approach to traffic safety

21 June 2011

Last week, the European Parliament Transport Committee visited the Euregio Maas-Rhine. N-VA Member of the European Parliament, Frieda Brepoels, was one of the driving forces behind this visit. The challenges for cross-border public transport were discussed extensively, as was the police …

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Better protection for world cultural heritage

16 June 2011

Today, the Senate approved a resolution by the N-VA that must provide greater legal protection for world cultural heritage against destruction by war by bringing civil and military key figures before the International Criminal Court. Sometimes museums and monuments are intentionally destroyed during …

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The N-VA welcomes European recommendations

8 June 2011

The N-VA feels encouraged by the European Commission’s report. The six major warnings that Belgium received are completely in line with the N-VA’s social-economic programme and its previous communications concerning the European semester. "The N-VA feels that it is high time that we finally comply …

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Urgent need for more European coordination

7 June 2011

An analysis of what was went wrong and what must now be done was carried out during the European Parliament debate on the E. coli crisis. According to Frieda Brepoels, N-VA Member of the European Parliament, there isn’t only a problem with the German government, but also with the competent European …

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