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Some 4,000 people joined a rally outside the European Parliament in Brussels on Tuesday against the rise of the far-right in Belgium and elsewhere in Europe, following last weekend's elections.
Bart De Wever (pictured), the chair of Flemish nationalist party N-VA, has said that confederalism or further state reform should be on the table in talks over forming a federal government.
Green party Ecolo was the big winner in Brussels' regional elections on Sunday, doubling its number of seats to 15 to become the region's second largest party behind PS.
Flemish far-right party Vlaams Belang made the biggest gains in Belgium's federal elections on Sunday, winning 18 seats to become the third biggest party in parliament.
After last October's municipal elections, some eight million people in Belgium return to the polls this Sunday for a triple whammy of voting in regional, federal and European elections.
Pensions and the N-VA are dominating online discussions in the run-up to the May elections, researchers at Antwerp University have found.
For Estonian Kadri Soova, becoming a campaigning activist in her Schaerbeek neighbourhood was new and unexpected but, in the end, it was “just like falling love… you have no choice”.
Marine Le Pen, president of France’s far-right National Rally, is encouraging French speakers in Belgium to vote for the Flemish political party Vlaams Belang.
Ecolo is the most popular political party in Brussels, according to the latest poll, carried out as a litmus test for next month’s regional and federal elections.
