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High Road to Culture in Flanders and the Netherlands
The common theme running through this cunning book is the observation that the ultimate stimulus in European politics has always come from the collective of member states (the institutions being the ‘inner sphere’ and the individual member...
The European elections in the Low Countries did not provide clear-cut results. The voters were dispersed across multiple different parties.
Belgian politician Charles Michel made a rapid rise to the political pinnacle of Europe.
Belgium was one of Europe’s founders and main supporters, but in recent times the consensus for the European project has been somewhat worn down.
After the Second World War, Belgium and the Netherlands stood at the cradle of European integration. In the course of the 1990s, the Netherlands started to question things. The steadily increasing impact of Europe led to incomprehension and...
The creation of the Benelux made Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg the very cradle of European integration. In subsequent European cooperation initiatives, during the fifties and sixties, Belgium and the Netherlands were always invol...
