In this article by Gwen Dyer The Red Mountain Post editors find some indication that the transference of wealth by the taxing authority of the state contributes to the centrifugal forces at work in Belgium. The writer seems also to be aware of the analogy with the E.U. as a whole. Today Belgium, tomorrow the [...]
The first of these videos is a BBC commentary on Portugal 8 years after it decriminalized all drug use in July, 2001. The indications are that Portuguese society benefited overall. The Cato Institute video below presents an interview with constitutional lawyer, Glenn Greenwald, who presents an argument in favor of decriminalization. May 21, 2009 — [...]
As the commentor Rustigjongens points out, this is the fifth Guardian article questioning the Flemish for supporting autonomy. No mention has been made to date of the Walloon party whose position is analogous. Simon Jenkins defines the success of Flemish nationalists in Belgian elections as a bold step forward. It is anything but by Sophie [...]
Devastation of War Archival Discovery Reveals a Ruined Berlin By Solveig Grothe Spiegel Online International May 7, 2010 Forgotten for decades, a trove of post-war photographs from 1945 has recently been unearthed. The snapshots illustrate the devastation of the German capital and capture the desperation of the city in the weeks after the end of [...]
The Far Right and the Dissolution of Belgium by Koenraad Elst April 4, 2010 16:34 The Brussels Journal. The Voice of Conservatism in Europe Foreign press correspondents in Brussels are telling their readers and viewers in the home country that the Flemish Far Right is clamouring for the divorce between Flanders and Wallonia. This is [...]
Scientists predict colder European winters to come The Local: Germany’s News in English April 15, 2010 11:53 CET Continental Europe and Britain are likely to see more unusually cold winters like last season due to low solar activity, according to a new study by British and German researchers published on Thursday. The study in “Environmental [...]
Muslim women in Belgium may soon be banned from practicing the traditions of their culture. By Ian Traynor Belgium moves towards public ban on burka and niqab: Home affairs committee of Brussels federal parliament votes unanimously to ban partial or total covering of faces in public places Guardian.co.UK March 31, 2010 17.33 BST Photograph: John [...]