If you do use the blog for research or database purposes, citation would be appreciated, to the blog as a whole and /or to specific blog posts. Many have suggested I should turn the blog into a paid for, subscription service however I have resisted doing so. Proper reference to how the blog is useful … Read more
Voters in the predominantly Dutch-speaking Belgian region of Flanders are often assumed to be more conservative than those in predominantly French-speaking Wallonia. Yet as Daan Delespaul shows, there is reason to question whether the two regions constitute distinct political worlds. The structure of western European party systems has long been shaped by sticky political divides … Read more
On April ninth, 2024, the European Court docket of Human Rights (ECtHR) delivered its judgment regarding Belgium’s Hijab (Headband) ban on sporting seen non secular symbols in Colleges. The Court docket, following its earlier infamous trial of SAS v. France, continued to permit the creeping erosion of the suitable to manifest faith below Article 9 … Read more