With its new government, Belgium joins a growing list of European countries led by nationalist forces such as Meloni's Italy ...

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The breakup of Yugoslavia left six million surplus firearms in the Western Balkans, a region comprising Montenegro, Serbia, ...

The agreement struck on Friday makes De Wever the first nationalist from the Dutch-speaking Flanders region to lead the country. He and his Flemish nationalist N-VA party will govern in an ...

Besides his New Flemish Alliance, the new government will include two other parties from the Dutch-speaking Flanders region — the centrist Christian-Democrats and the leftist Vooruit — and two ...

Photo: AFP It was another indication how times change, and bold demands for Flemish independence have made room for the hope of gradual change and finding a renewed balance between Dutch-speaking ...

The "two completely autonomous democracies" (Flemish and French-speaking ... and denounce the financial transfers from Flanders to a region he considered lazy and "assisted," contributing to ...

Conservative Bart De Wever was sworn in Monday as Belgium's new prime minister, after striking a hard-fought coalition deal that moves the country to the right. Reached after seven months of ...

More than seven months after the parliamentary elections in June 2024, political talks have resulted in the formation of a ...

BRUSSELS — Belgium has a new prime minister whose political purpose was long to break up the nation, gut the state structures and give ever more autonomy to his northern Flanders at the cost of ...

He is the first Flemish nationalist to lead Belgium's government. New Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever raises his hand to take an oath during a swearing-in ceremony for the new government in ...

have worked tirelessly to change the way the region deals with its past. Following press interventions of historians like Aerts and his colleague Marnix Beyen, street names in honour of Nazi ...