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Join the Friends of Flemish Independence
05/19/2008 :: The international community receives its information about Flanders and our struggle for Flemish independence from secondhand sources and often from our Francophone adversaries in the Belgian establishment. Yet Flanders is strongly oriented towards other countries and cultures. The Flemings are amongst the world’s best polyglots, able to converse with English, French, German and sometimes even Spanish and Italian visitors in their own language. No other region in the world exports so much per capita. Flanders’ subsidisation of Wallonia is proportionally greater than the financial support given by the former West-Germany to the former German Democratic Republic.
The international perception of the Flemish independence movement and of the Vlaams Belang does not reflect reality. We believe it is important that foreign observers of Belgian and Flemish politics receive a more accurate picture both of our party and of the Flemish independence movement in general. That’s why, five years ago, we’ve founded The Flemish Republic, a free quarterly newsletter explaining why the Belgian federation should be dissolved and Flanders should become an independent state.
Recently I founded the Friends of Flemish Independence (FFI). FFI is a worldwide network of local representatives who follow the media in their own countries and react whenever wrong information is given about Belgium and the Flemings’ struggle for independence.
The idea of Flemish independence is unstoppable. But we need all the support we can get to speed up the process of awareness in the international community. Join us.
Karim Van Overmeire is chairman of the Committee for Foreign Policy and European Affairs of the Flemish Parliament. He is also a member of the Belgian Senate and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and the West European Union.
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