Elections in Belgium: A Tale of Two Democracies
What's at stake on Sunday? Political scientist Herwig Reynaert is looking ahead.
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High Road to Culture in Flanders and the Netherlands
What's at stake on Sunday? Political scientist Herwig Reynaert is looking ahead.
Just going by today’s headlines, the end of Western democracy seems imminent. However, is a crisis not the essence of a democracy?
The European elections in the Low Countries did not provide clear-cut results. The voters were dispersed across multiple different parties.
Cross-border solidarity in Belgium and the Netherlands is more popular than the political debate suggests.
Thierry Baudet’s conservative ideas fly in the face of the enlightenment values that have long been dominant. This opposition is a defining moment for our modern culture.
Belgian politician Charles Michel made a rapid rise to the political pinnacle of Europe.