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The Flemish Republic

The Flemish People’s PartyIn October, the Flemish people will go to the polls again, this time for the municipal elec-tions. Vlaams Belang is more than ready to campaign. Our main themes will be Flemish independence, safety and crime, for which we demand strong measures. Nationally, but regionally as well. The Flemish people de-serve their own nation, in which they decide on how to tackle crime, how to guarantee our people’s safety. A nation with solid bor-ders, a strong policy on immigration, and a nation with a cultural feeling of self-respect and pride. A nation where Flemings can truly feel at home. A nation that does not tolerate a totalitarian ideology like Islam. A nation free from Belgian diseases.

We are and will remain true pa-triots. We are and will remain the only true political enemy of the Belgian establishment. We are and will remain true Republicans. We do not want evolution, but - peaceful - revo-lution. This is the message we send out to the Flemish voters in October. Contrary to other parties, such as the N-VA, we take a clear stand in favor of Flemish independence.

Vlaams Belang fights for the rights of all Flemings. Poor or

rich, young or old. We are the true Flemish people’s party. A party of Flemish resistance, that puts our own people first. A radical alternative to the traditional political parties. Flanders more than ever needs a party that dares to strive for a different, better and safer so-ciety. The only way to achieve real change, is through Flem-ish independence!

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Bruno ValkeniersPresident of the Vlaams Belang

Freedom or Islam?

Daring to choose !

www.vlaamsbelangantwerpen.org

Flemish taxpayers are the biggest net contributors to the European Union. About a year ago, the Vlaams Belang delegation in the European Parliament reported

that Flemings pay 286 euros per capita each year (not counting the contributions to the ESFS stability fund), which is three times as much as what the Germans contribute.

This is Belgium’s best kept political se-cret, as there is no real debate on Euro-pean matters in Belgium. The figures were hardly mentioned, let alone refuted by the media or the traditional political parties. Vlaams Belang MEP Philip Claeys de-mands a fundamental debate on the func-tioning of the EU, and on Flanders’ place within the Union.

Unbelievable

A symptom of the lack of debate was the admission by then Finance minister Didier Reynders (a Walloon liberal), in June last year, that he perfectly knew Greece had manipulated its debt and budget deficit figures at the time of the decision wheth-er or not the country could join the euro zone. Guy Verhofstadt, who currently

chairs the liberal group in the European Parliament and who was prime minister at that time, called Reynders’ admission ‘unbelievable’. It is indeed unbelievable that Reynders would have known about Greece cooking its books, without having told his prime minister, Verhofstadt. Even more unbelievable is the fact that the press actually let Verhofstadt and Reynders get away with it.

Anti European?

In Great Britain, Germany, the Nether-lands, the Scandinavian countries there is a debate on the limits of ‘solidarity’ within the EU. Voters are entitled to know what is going on. Unfortunately, there is no such thing in Belgium. Whatever the prob-lem is, the consensus is to think it can be

Vlaams Belang demands debate on Europe

solved by even more money, more compe-tences and more powers to the EU. Every kind of criticism is automatically labelled ‘anti European’.

However, more and more Flemings are getting fed up with this one-sided ap-proach. They agree with the Vlaams Be-lang’s assertion that Greece (and the EU) would be better off if the country would leave the euro zone, that the European Union needs more democracy and trans-parency, that it needs to tackle waste and corruption and that it should respect the sovereignty of the Member States.

Philip Claeys MEP

A better Flanders for a lesser price

The Vlaams Belang fine-tuned its social and economic pro-gramme during a conference in the Flemish Parliament on March, 3. Speakers were party president Bruno Valkeniers, federal MP Barbara Pas, Flemish MP Chris Janssens and Phil-ip Claeys MEP. Flanders needs a free market economy, with less taxes, less government interventionism and more support for entrepreneurship. With a Flemish (instead of Belgian) so-cial security system, this is perfectly compatible with solidarity for those who need it.

Vlaams Belang Youth has a new president

On March 25, the Vlaams Belang youth organisa-tion (VBJ) held its congress in Antwerp. It was a special occasion, as VBJ enters its 25th year of ex-istence. Tom Van Grieken (25) was elected as its new president. His predecessor Bar-bara Pas served for two years, and will continue her work as a member of the federal Par-liament.

Belgium finally has a government (and it’s anti Flemish)

After negotiations that nearly took a year and a half (a world record), a Belgian federal government has eventually been formed. The socialist Elio Di Rupo is

the first French-speaking prime minister in three decades. His left-wing coalition (socialists, liberals and Christian-democrats/’humanists’) is heavily dominated by the Walloons. Although it has an overall majority in the federal Parliament, it doesn’t have a majority on the Flemish side. That lacking of democratic legitimacy in Flanders is a major problem.

Democratic deficit

Belgium is not a single country; it is rath-er two countries, Flanders and Wallonia, with radically different linguistic, cul-tural, political, social and economic reali-ties. Wallonia massively votes on the left, Flanders has a substantial majority voting for centre-right and right-wing parties. Wallonia’s unemployment rate is three times higher than the Flemish rate. As a result, an average Fleming pays more than 2,000 euros a year for Wallonia. A grow-ing number of Flemish voters want to put an end to this huge money flow, for example by making Wallonia responsi-ble for its own rev-enue and spending. A state reform was necessary to make this possible, but the French-speaking parties unanimously vetoed any reform tending to more re-sponsibility for the regions. The Flem-ings want change; the Walloons want the status-quo - and they got it. Flemish voters can vote however they want, they will always get a leftist government due to the enormous strength of the Walloon so-cialist party (PS) and its ideological allies, CDH (‘humanists’) and Ecolo (‘greens’). In that sense, Belgium is a structurally leftist country.

More taxes

The Flemish Christian-democrats and liberals betrayed their voters by joining a

government coalition that refuses to sub-stantially reform the Belgian State. Flem-ish taxpayers will increasingly foot the bill. Although income tax is second high-est in the world already (just behind Swe-den), Mr. Di Rupo announced even more taxes. This will especially hurt the Flem-ish taxpayers and the Flemish economy.

Territorial claims

One of the major reasons why it took so long to form a government, was the con-stitutionally mandatory split-up of the

Brussels-Halle-Vil-voorde constituency (BHV). Brussels has a bilingual statute (French and Dutch) and is a region on its own, whereas the rest of the BHV constituency be-longs to the Flemish region. However, a mass of French-speakers have set-tled in these Flem-ish municipalities, and refuse to recog-nize their Flemish, Dutch character. As a result, the French-

speaking parties are claiming this part of the Flemish territory and want it to belong to the region of Brussels. With the split-up of the BHV electoral constituency, the Flemish parties wanted to put an end to the territorial claims by the Francophones. But the deal that was eventually accepted by the Flemish Christian-democrats and liber-als, will actually make things worse. In six of the most Frenchified Flemish munici-palities, French-speakers will be allowed to vote in Brussels instead of in their own

municipality. The Flemish government will in fact no longer be competent there. In the new constituency of Brussels, not a single Flemish parliamentarian will be elected anymore. The overburdened court of Justice of Brussels will have to lay-off dozens of Flemish magistrates, instead of having more of them. Court cases between French-speakers living in the Flemish part of Brabant will be allowed to take place in Brussels, in French.

Flemish independence

It is not possible to have any significant change for the better within the Belgian political framework. The N-VA (‘New Flemish Alliance’) won the elections in 2010 precisely because it promised change. With a platform that was designed to look like the Vlaams Belang program, it told Flemish voters it would be able to get results by negotiating with the Wal-loon parties. Even after this major failure, N-VA chairman Bart De Wever is still dreaming of a reformed ‘Belgium 2.0.’ It is clear, however, that the Walloon parties will never let go of the status-quo. Moreo-ver, any major reform requires a majority on the French-speaking side as well. It is one of the typical Belgian means to neu-tralise the Flemish majority of the popula-tion, and by doing so, to neutralise democ-racy. The Vlaams Belang wants Flanders to become an independent State. It is the only way to get out of this Belgian imbro-glio.

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The Flemish Republic

Saxe-Coburg WatchSeveral newspapers noted the declining number of public appearances by King Al-bert (77) outside his palace. In 2011, Albert made only 20 public appearances. The Brit-ish Queen Elisabeth (85) participated in 69 official ‘external’ activities that same year. Not only has Albert been struggling with health problems, he also had to hold numer-ous auditions with members of the tradi-tional political parties as it took them nearly a year and a half to form a federal govern-ment after the general election in June 2010.

A tired Albert would have liked to spend much more time in his villa in Châteauneuf-de-Grasse, in the Provence, as he normally does. Royalty watchers are speculating about the King’s retirement, but it is a public secret that Prince Philippe is not trusted as heir to the throne. The clock is ticking, and Albert and his entourage are highly wor-ried about Philippe’s lack of understanding of politics and mediocre knowledge of the Dutch language (incidentally the language spoken by the majority op the population in Belgium). Some years ago, he embarrassed his father by openly attacking the Vlaams Belang party. Apart from Philippe himself and his wife Mathilde, only Flemish nation-alists and republicans are said to be looking forward to his reign. The popularity of the Belgian royals is at an all-time low in Flan-ders, and Philippe’s accession to the throne is widely believed to speed up the disinte-gration of Belgium.

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Vlaams Belang launches Women against Islamisation

As a new organisation, ‘Women against Islamisation’ wants to raise awareness of the problems caused by the creeping islamisation of

our society, especially for women.

If the current evolution persists, Islam will be the dominant factor in major areas in Western Europe. Sharia law systematically discriminates women and affects women’s rights. ‘Women against Islamisation’, led by Vlaams Belang Senator Anke Van dermeersch, will take action against all sorts of dis-crimination of women. Mrs. Van der-meersch is due to publish a book on Islam and women in March.

To launch the campaign, a poster has been produced with a girl (incidently Filip Dewinter’s daughter An-Sofie) wearing a bikini under an open burqa, under the headline “Freedom or is-lam? Daring to choose.”

A successful and well-attended con-ference was organised in Antwerp on March, 6th. Speakers were Austrian MP Susanne Winter (FPÖ), Anne Kling (France), Stefanie Wohlfarth (Germany) and Jacqui Cook (Wales). The keynote speaker was Senator Anke Van dermeersch, who presented

her book Hoer noch slavin (Neither whore nor slave). “We want to warn women that, if the current Islamisa-tion trend persists, they will be the first victims. It would be unaccepta-ble if the emancipation our mothers and grandmothers fought for, would be brought down by Islam”, said Anke Van dermeersch.

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