Belgium Assaults Democracy and Self-Determination
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"What happened in Brussels today is unique in the   Western world: never has a so-called democratic regime outlawed the country's   largest political party."  The party outlawed is for Flemish self-determination.  When Belgium's largest political party (despite being a minority, which even the largest parties usually are in parliamentary politics) cannot even seek self-determination via democratic means, aren't international organizations obligated to ask what "self-determination" really means in a "liberal democracy"?
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Two-thirds of the Flemish community  from the northern Dutch-speaking region of Belgium think the  country will sooner or later split, a poll by Belgian daily Het  Laatste Nieuws showed on Tuesday.
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Guy Verhofstadt, Belgium's prime minister, was trying to stop the crisis wrecking his coalition government yesterday, although doctors told him to work from home after he broke two ribs in a car accident on ...
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From Nepal's royal coup to the flight of Cambodian opposition leaders, democracy is under assault.
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France has been ardently pro-EU - but enlargement has raised new fears, and voters might still reject the constitution.
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Leaders of Belgium's feuding Dutch- and French-speaking parties agreed Wednesday to form an interim government to run the country in the short term, while a more permanent solution to the political crisis is sought.
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BRUSSELS -- Belgian voters punished the outgoing liberal-socialist government in an election yesterday and cleared the way for Flemish leader Yves Leterme to become prime minister.
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BRUSSELS -- In the back room of an exclusive social club across the street from the U.S. Embassy here, Flemish separatists are plotting the breakup of Belgium.
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One of the most popular politicians in the Netherlands said Friday the country's democracy is under threat and called for a five-year halt to non-Western immigration in the wake of the killing of a Dutch filmmaker by a suspected Muslim radical.
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Belgian voters punished the outgoing liberal-socialist government in an election on Sunday and cleared the way for Flemish premier Yves Leterme to become prime minister.
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Belgian leaders cobbled together an interim government Wednesday that will tackle urgent economic issues, ending a six-month political deadlock.
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Belgium's foreign minister criticises politicians in the DR Congo over the country's slow transition to democracy.
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The 14 people detained were described as Islamic extremists. Belgian authorities said raids in 15 locations, mostly in Brussels, had turned up explosives and arms.
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The referendum on the EU constitution will be a first for the Netherlands - and no easy ride, reports Andy Clark.
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Belgians began heading to the polls Sunday in legislative and senate elections widely expected to spell defeat for Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt.
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France and Belgium, two of the most vocal critics of the US war in Iraq, would not agree Friday to a planned expansion of NATO&#39;s military training mission in Iraq, but
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Belgian voters go to the polls in an election which is likely to see PM Guy Verhofstadt struggle to keep his job.