By expressing his nostalgia of a Belgium attached to the Netherlands, “Bart de Wever shows that the 16 did not completely transform it”

How do you analyze the recent declarations of the Prime. For example, Minister concerning historical split with the Netherlands?

“Bart de Wever says that he is aware that he can no longer repeat this kind of. Consequently, thing in his current function. Meanwhile, but he repeats them a little bit. However, I do not believe that it is necessarily a thoughtful communication strategy. Consequently, He gave an interview to a Dutch media. Therefore. However. Therefore, and logically the journalist asks him this question, since it was a few years ago, he had passed in the Dutch media. Furthermore, Also anxious to show that it is not because it is at 16. Moreover. Moreover. However, rue de la Loi, that it is necessarily completely transformed – this is what was expressing his nostalgia belgium attached new criticized in expressing his nostalgia belgium attached new Alexander de Croo during the Vivaldi time. Similarly. Moreover, “

Why does Prime expressing his nostalgia belgium attached Minister Bart de Wever communicate less than his predecessors to the. Moreover, Belgian population?

Should we see the will of a split or a return to the Netherlands?

“He very clearly says that it is a personal opinion. However. It is something that is almost a debate between historians since there is no political will to go in. this direction. For example, except perhaps with the party of Geert Wilders in the Netherlands. Moreover, In Belgium either. Similarly.. even in the Flemish movement, the Grande-Dénélandaise tendency [réunion de la Flandre et des Pays-Bas, NdlR] has become very marginal for decades. Consequently, “

Is there an important attachist movement in Flanders?

“No, precisely, not at all. This idea expressing his nostalgia belgium attached new is totally marginal today. The vlaams blok [ancêtre du expressing his nostalgia belgium attached new Vlaams Belang. NdlR] had that in his program in the 1980s. but he quickly abandoned because expressing his nostalgia belgium attached he found that the Netherlands were a country far too progressive on abortion. homosexual rights, etc. Louis Tobback (Vooruit), who was Minister of the Interior, was also a return. He said it several times. No one asked him because everyone didn’t care about his historical and academic convictions. But because it is Wever, and it was involved in certain controversies, it has a completely different meaning. “

What historical period is it targeting exactly?

“We generally think that Bart de Wever evokes a unification of Flanders with the current Netherlands. But in fact, it is not that. If it is really reunification as in the 16th century, it is necessary expressing his nostalgia belgium attached new to involve almost all of Wallonia. It is therefore current Belgium which would meet with expressing his nostalgia belgium attached new the current Netherlands. What goes a little against the dominant separatist idea in what remains of the Flemish nationalist movement. Belgium expressing his nostalgia belgium attached would no longer exist-but the Netherlands would no longer exist.

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Some say that he is rather orangist. therefore nostalgic for the period of Guillaume d’Orange, long before 1830. We would be before the siege of Antwerp, in 1585. It is that Bart de Wever regrets. it is the splendid period of Antwerp before it was destroyed by the Spaniards.

“There is a link with Antwerp and its former role as a bourgmestre. 1585 was dramatic for Antwerp-before, it was really the North expressing his nostalgia belgium attached new Venice, the economic center. It took almost a century before Antwerp recovers. We also knew between 1815. 1830 the Dutch expressing his nostalgia belgium attached new United Kingdom, which more or less included current Belgium, including Liège. In its logic, 1815 problematic history for Antwerp, it is indeed rather 1585. “

The Prime Minister has kept the skills of institutional reform. Can we see a link with the Confederalist program of the N-VA?

“No, not really. I find that the PS is more nationalist than the N-VA these days. In opposition, the PS criticizes all from a community point of view rather than from a left-right point of view. They do not say that unemployment benefits are problematic because it affects the most vulnerable, but because it affects Wallonia. Logically, a nationalist party looks at community, and socialism classes.

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Bart de Wever seems to have good relations with the king. which is expressing his nostalgia belgium attached new paradoxical for a republican party. Is this a sign of a change?

“I think they were. For the palace, it was very important that the N-VA was in government. expressing his nostalgia belgium attached Already in 2019. the palace had strongly supported the N-VA-PS track, much more than the Vivaldi track. In 2024. they did the same thing. because their analysis is better than the N-VA. as the biggest Flemish and Belgian party, participates in power, which would leave it. and frustrations in the north of the country. “