He was a finalist in the Belgian contest The smartest person in the world. He lost weight 60 kilos in what represented a true personal transformation. welcomed Carles Puigdemont in his exile and declared himself a “friend” of the fugitive from justice. It is the prime minister of a country, Belgiumto which he did not really want to belong since he aspired for Flanders to be autonomous. Your political party, New Flemish Alliance (N-VA)is part of the European far-right or radical right (depending on who you ask) group of Giorgia Meloni. He is capable of speaking up to five different languages during a single press conference. And last week it became known that he was the target of a jihadist group that wanted to attack him and that was dismantled.
The life of Bart de Wever It seems like that song in which Joaquin Sabina He lists the many lives he has had and in which he states that the one he prefers is that of a pirate. The one with the lame pirate, of course. It is not clear which of all of his the Prime Minister of Belgium likes the most, but what is certain is that he is very comfortable in debate, questioning, challenging and even swimming against the current, and that is what he will do again this week in Brussels.
One of the main objectives of the presidents’ summit, which will take place in the community capital on Thursday and Friday, is to reach an agreement on frozen Russian assets. The Commission estimates that there is already an accumulation 175,000 million euros in cash in Eurocleara financial securities clearing and settlement company, and that this data may soon reach 185 billion. The community Executive is determined to take that money, articulate a kind of credit through the European Central Bank (ECB) and lend him the gold Moscow a Ukraine so that you can continue to defend yourself from Vladimir Putin. For that, and to prevent Russia’s next imperialist target from being a country in the European Union itself.
But De Wever doesn’t like that plan because Euroclear is based in Belgium, and the Flemish leader fears that Putin will lash out at his country in international courts. «If you don’t want to call it confiscation, don’t call it confiscation. But it looks very similar,” he said at the beginning of this month in Copenhagenwithin the framework of the meeting of the European Political Community. And this is the position that it will maintain at the next meeting of the European Council, in which it also has to a certain extent the support of the European Central Bank (ECB)which has also questioned the strategy of the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyenand the reluctance that France has shown at some point.
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‘EUSKOPARLANTE’ AND SABINO ARANA PRIZE
Of Wever will not be able to block the measure, but it will put up all the obstacles it can and will demand a “risk mutualization” that he already claimed in that round of Copenhagen in which he wanted to respond in French, Dutch, English, German and Spanish. It was the international journalists themselves who, out of respect for the rest of his colleagues, asked him to do it in a language that was understandable to everyone. And to this mastery of languages we must add, at least, some notions of Gaelic and some Basque.
Because the former mayor of Antwerp spent some of the holidays of his youth in the the Basque Country and the relationship with this autonomous community is very close. So much so that in 2013 was awarded the prize Sabino Arana for their secessionist objectives. Due to its intention, as has already been said, to achieve independence for Flanders and stop, in his opinion, from financially supporting the Wallonia regionwhich is significantly less rich.
«The work and social support achieved by Bart De Wever and his party, New Flamenco Alliance NV-Ain its battle to transform Belgium into a confederal state and for Flanders to become a full member of the European Union,” stated the foundation then chaired by the historic jeltzale Juan María Atutxa. “With this award Sabino Arana Fundazioa wants to highlight the democratic aspirations of our respective nations, Flanders and Euskadi, within the framework of a new Europe respectful of the democratic will of its people,” he added.
jihadist target
But not only that, De Wever also shares with Sabino Arana his, putting it mildly, reluctance towards immigration. It’s not that he despises people from other latitudes to the same level as the founder of the PNVwhose supremacist, xenophobic and sexist positions are well known and he even wore them to gala. But his political program, with which he came to occupy the position of Prime Minister of Belgium, includes a strong limitation of migratory flows in a country that has a problem “integration” y “ghettos”according to the Belgian Executive.
In the capital, in Brussels, there are neighborhoods in which almost the entire population comes from Africaprofess Islam and maintain the customs of the country from which they come. It cannot be said, effectively, that there is great integration. And to this we must add the numerous confrontations between drug trafficking gangs, which recurrently leave images of people carrying rifles. Kalashnikov just a few kilometers from the city center, and jihadist activity. Specifically, there were three young people born in 2001, 2002 y 2007 those that the Belgian police arrested last week precisely in Antwerp. Different Belgian ministers were quick to point out that the target was Bart De Wever, and that is the hypothesis that remains. The oldest of them has already been released, but those of 18 y 23 years They are still detained. Abdelmajid EJ, and Abdulla A., according to EFE. More fuel for the anti-immigration speech of the friend of Puigdemontcompanion of Melonswinner of the Sabino Arana award and polyglot. @DanielVianaR