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The N-VA conditionally supports European Commission President von der Leyen’s new term of office

18 July 2024

The European Parliament today approved Ursula von der Leyen’s second term of office as European Commission President. The N-VA took a constructive stance and supported the candidature, albeit conditionally. “We need stability and feasible policies,” says N-VA delegation head Johan Van Overtveldt …

The N-VA once again chooses to join the ECR Group in the European Parliament

3 July 2024

The N-VA will again be part of the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) Group in the European Parliament in the coming legislature. The N-VA chose the ECR group after a carefully considered analysis. This choice was officially confirmed today. “The aim was to give the N-VA the greatest …

Thanks to Flanders, a European framework for the welfare of cats and dogs will become a reality

26 June 2024

EU-wide minimum standards for breeding and trading cats and dogs will be introduced for the first time. Flanders made use of the EU presidency to put animal welfare on the European agenda and this is now paying off: after months of work behind the scenes, representatives of the EU Member States …

With more than one million votes, the N-VA remains the largest people’s party in Flanders

10 June 2024

On the evening of Sunday 9 June, the N-VA was the big surprise of the elections in Flanders. Despite opinion polls always predicting a loss for the Flemish nationalist party in recent years, many times estimating the share at less than 20%, the N-VA held up very well. Better yet, it grew in both …

Bart De Wever: “Working is not sufficiently rewarded in Belgium”

23 May 2024

In the run-up to the elections, we continue to read reports in some media stating that working people are mainly imagining problems. That is not at all the case. “The facts are clear,” states N-VA chairman Bart De Wever. Nowhere in the Western world is the tax burden on labour higher than in …

The N-VA MEPs are the best in Flanders

17 May 2024

A KU Leuven report shows that the N-VA MEPs were the most active of all Flemish MEPs. Johan Van Overtveldt, Assita Kanko and Geert Bourgeois all excelled in legislative work during the past administrative period. Van Overtveldt was also recently chosen as the “most influential MEP”. The scores in …

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