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The Ghent Lawyer Who Makes Every Vote Count
29 May 2024
Victor D’Hondt died in 1902, but he could still influence the outcome of the European and Belgian elections on 9 June.
Women’s Suffrage: An Ongoing Struggle
1 July 2019
Exhibitions, lectures, guided walks and a website launched by the House of Representatives (Tweede Kamer): clearly, the Netherlands is sparing neither time nor efforts to celebrate the centenary of universal suffrage. However, this anniversary should actually force us to stop and think. After all, i
The European Elections in the Low Countries: Mini-Europe
4 June 2019
The European elections in the Low Countries did not provide clear-cut results. The voters were dispersed across multiple different parties, from the Extreme Left to the Extreme Right. The loss of the Christian Democrats and the gains of the Greens were visible in both Belgium and the Netherlands, an
Elections in Belgium: A Tale of Two Democracies
22 May 2019
A return of the radical right. A landslide victory for the Greens thanks to the ongoing climate change debate. A predominantly right-wing Flanders versus a left-leaning Wallonia. This could very well be what Belgium’s political landscape looks like this Sunday night. On May 26, Belgians are headin