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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Plan Canal in Brussels: Belgium vs MolenbeekThe Belgian government has unveiled a multi-million euro plan to combat radical extremism in 'Molenbeekistan'. But...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Democracy and belongingIn 2006, a conversation before a large audience in Rotterdam on the role that Muslims should play in European...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Blame gamesThe perpetrators of the attacks on the London Underground in 2005 were also born and raised in Britain. So much for...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Heysel: 30 years onA reflection on the thirtieth anniversary of the Heysel Stadium disaster - one of football's worst tragedies.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Belgian jihadists in Syria: alienation, consumption, powerPoliticians are flexing their muscles and alienated youngsters are defiantly posting their Syrian ‘adventures’...
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Published in: TransformationLea's story: my days as a mad girlIn immaculate clinics people are segregated, held down, drugged, often with no other purpose than to control them...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?A federal House of Cards: the Belgian political landscape following the 2014 regional and federal electionsHow was the new Belgian government formed? And how long will it survive for?
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The Burqa ban and its vigilante proponentsA Belgian civil servant is in trouble for injuring a Qatari princess by ripping off her veil in public. What is it...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?A post-World Cup glow for Belgium?The success of the Belgian national team at the 2014 World Cup has briefly united Flemish and Walloon speakers, but...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The neo-Athenian revival: citizen participation in the twenty-first centuryLooking back at the year 2013, one small, symbolic event stands out as a clear demonstration of a slow, quiet trend...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The radicalisation of Flemish nationalismThe polarising strategy of the Flemish movement’s biggest political party places next year’s “mother of all...
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Published in: HomeAre smaller avenues of collective self-determination emerging out of the crisis?Is national citizenship still a valid organizational factor in the context of the crisis? A radical re-thinking of...
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Published in: HomeThe constitutionality of the Belgian burqa banOn 6 December 2012, the Belgian Constitutional Court held that the 2011 so-called “burqa ban” does not violate the...
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Published in: HomeHow small countries can save the European project: the rise of the habitat-nationThe European project is failing. It is time to consider a new theoretical model beyond the nation-state: smaller,...
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Published in: HomeWill Catalonia secede?The independentist inclinations of Catalonia, Scotland or Flanders define a dominant political zeitgeist in Europe –...
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Published in: HomeFlemish nationalism: a new landscapeThe results of Belgium's local elections has brought victory in the northern Flanders region to the conservative and...
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Published in: HomeThe pornography of equalityThe silence of our politicians on women’s security in public spaces is in striking contrast to their tremendous...
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Published in: openSecuritySecurity and the radical right in Flanders
Security has been a major theme in the rhetoric of the Vlaams Block/Belang since the late 1980s. Their combination...
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Published in: HomeBelgium bans 'burqa'
Belgium’s law banning the face-veil and other forms of face covering is badly drafted, unnecessary, and counter-productive
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Published in: HomeBelgium: blame the chubby nationalist
The creation of a new Belgian government seems as unlikely as the Red Devils ever winning the World Cup. Bart de...
