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	Flemish Block - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Flemish Block (Dutch: Vlaams Blok) was a Flemish right-wing nationalist political party which rejected the state of Belgium, calling for political independence for the Flemish half of the country.
		The Vlaams Blok is particularly strong in and around Antwerp, where it received thirty-three percent of the votes in the last municipal elections.
		In 2003, a Vlaams Blok politician was dropped from a delegation of Flemish parliamentarians due to visit the Scottish parliament and Welsh assembly after strongly criticizing the SNP [2], [3].
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vlaams_Blok (1091 words)

	Vlaams Belang - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Vlaams Belang was formed in 2004 by members of the now defunct Vlaams Blok (English: Flemish Block), which was condemned by a court for permanent incitation to discrimination and racism in November 2004.
		[1] Members of the Vlaams Belang party and other conservatives, such as the law professor Matthias Storme, as well as some non-conservative flemish people, see it as a political trial inspired by the Belgian establishment, which would not have been possible were it not for amendments to laws carried out in the preceding years.
		Vlaams Belang, and the former Vlaams Blok is a very divisive issue in Belgium, particularly in Flanders.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vlaams_Belang (711 words)

	Council of Conservative Citizens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Vlaams Blok calls for the EU to have limited powers to interfere with state sovereignty and not to expand beyond the borders of Europe.
		Vlaams Blok believes in upholding the “traditional principles of European civilization.” This includes freedom, law and order, solidarity of a common people, and the protection of the family.
		Vlaams Blok was formerly disbanded and re-organized as Vlaams Belang.
	www.cofcc.org /links/flanders.htm (1505 words)

	Untitled (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Vlaams Blok is built on the traditions of the Flemish nationalist collaboration with the German nazi-regime in the 1940s.
		The limited active involvement in the Vlaams Blok, their biggest mobilisation ever was a ‘family day’ with 5,000 present, and the fact that their electoral growth is mainly based on a passive populist rhetoric, bars the way to an open violent policy on a broad scale.
		It is true that the Vlaams Blok has grown electorally on the basis of using populist methods, but in the case of the LPF this method became a “party” on itself.
	www.lsp-mas.be /lsp/cwi/159blok.html (1557 words)

	Vlaams Blok Reorganises As Vlaams Belang - Stormfront White Nationalist Community (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Vlaams Belang has responded by calling not only for the expulsion of the aliens, but for a pan-Flemish nationalism, the independence of historical Flanders and/or union with the Netherlands, and the secession of the Dutch- speaking provinces of northern France.
		Though the Vlaams Blok was Belgium's biggest party and occupied a third of the seats in the Flemish Parliament, we felt compelled to disband.
		Through its political initiatives the Vlaams Belang aims to ensure that the organisation and government of the state are (co-)determined by the need to preserve the cultural identity and the national interests of the Flemish people.
	www.stormfront.org /forum/showthread.php?t=165477 (1560 words)

	Europe's very selective attachment to democracy \| Samizdata.net
		The Vlaams Blok is the largest political party in Flanders, the Flemish speaking half of Belgium...
		Vlaams Blok has always fought for: an independent and democratic Republic of Flanders; the traditional moral values of Western civilisation; and the right of the Flemings to protect their national identity and their Dutch language and culture.
		Vlaams Blok is a reaction to the ways in which the Dutch-speaking Flemish majority has found itself increasingly marginalized by the pressures of the French-speaking Walloon minority.
	www.samizdata.net /blog/archives/006922.html (5314 words)

	The Periscope : Vlaams Blok builds up strength (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Vlaams Blok (Flemish Block in English) is a Flemish far-right nationalist political party which rejects the state of Belgium, calling for political independence for the Flemish half of the country.
		In 2003, a Vlaams Blok politician was dropped from a delegation of Flemish parliamentarians due to visit the Scottish parliament and Welsh assembly after strongly criticizing the SNP [1] (http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1034186,00.html), [2] (http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2003/08/276065.html).
		The Vlaams Blok was brought to court by the Center for Equal Opportunities and the Prevention of Racism, a government agency under direct supervision of the Prime Minister's office, and by the Belgian Human Rights League.
	theperiscope.blogs.com /the_periscope_/2004/07/vlaams_blok_bui.html (10085 words)

	Belgium: Vlaams Blok - new name, same racism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Even though the court case was not directly against the Vlaams Blok, it was generally seen as a conviction for racism of the Vlaams Blok itself.
		More importantly however is the fact that while many anti-racists thought they could fight the Vlaams Blok through the courts, it is becoming more apparent that the Vlaams Belang would easily increase their vote again if there would be elections today.
		As there are no big forces on the ground to counter the anti-establishment image of the Vlaams Blok in the poorest working class areas in the cities, the party thinks that it will have those votes anyway.
	www.socialistworld.net /eng/2004/12/01belgium.html (1100 words)

	American Renaissance
		On 21 April, the Court of Appeal in Ghent ruled that the Vlaams Blok, the Flemish secessionist party expected to win the regional and European elections on 13 June, is a racist”; party proposing political solutions that are not in line with the European and international human rights treaties.
		By bringing three non-profit organisations of the Vlaams Blok to court, the case could be brought before a non-jury penal court.
		The Vlaams Blok is not racist, and neither are its 800,000 Flemish voters.
	www.amren.com /news/news04/04/23/vlaamsblok.html (1198 words)

	The english section - Home
		The Vlaams Blok was supported by almost 1 million voters in last June's elections.
		A recent opinion poll of the Brussels newspaper Le Soir and the Francophone state television RTBF (24 October) indicates that the Vlaams Blok currently stands at 26.9% of the Flemish vote.
		Despite the fact that a political party should be fought in the voting booth, the Belgian regime has been harassing the Vlaams Blok with criminal prosecutions for over a decade.
	vlaamsblok.be /site_engels_index.shtml (765 words)

	KarenDeCoster.com Web Log: The Rise of Vlaams Blok (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The cause for Flemish independence was boosted enormously on 13 June when the Vlaams Blok, striving for a secession of Dutch-speaking Flanders from Belgium, became the biggest party in the country.
		The Vlaams Blok, originally founded in 1977 as a break-away of the Flemish-nationalist party, has transformed itself into a mainstream conservative party since the late 1980s, aptly filling the gap that the Liberals and the Christian-Democrats left when they moved to the left.
		From 3 percent of the Flemish vote in the 1987 general elections, the Vlaams Blok jumped to 10.3 in 1991, 12.3 in 1995, 15.8 in 1999, 18.2 in 2003 and 24.1 percent today.
	www.karendecoster.com /blog/archives/001130.html (517 words)

	JUF News and Public Affairs
		The Nov. 10 decision by the High Court in Brussels to convict the Vlaams Blok came after the court found that the group had infringed upon Belgian law by continuing to advocate a racist and xenophobic platform.
		The ruling means that under its current structure, the Vlaams Blok could be stripped of its rights to state funding and television access, thereby forcing it to disband.
		With the Vlaams Blok continuing to grow some are beginning to consider whether blocking the party from power in regional and local government has been an effective tactic.
	www.juf.org /news_public_affairs/article.asp?key=5566 (1103 words)

	VDARE.com: 04/28/04 - It Happened There; etc
		The real reason for the banning may be the Blok's secessionist ambitions: they'd like to withdraw from multilingual Belgium and establish a Republic of Flanders.
		As of this ruling, it is illegal to distribute Blok literature, and Blok politicians are banned from radio and television.
		They finally found one, who is thought to be opposed to the aims of the Vlaams Blok, and he has, in effect, banned a political party which has wide democratic support for having the wrong attitude.
	www.vdare.com /fulford/flemings.htm (1155 words)

	Ruling forces 'racist' Vlaams Blok party to reorganize - The Washington Times: World - November 10, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		BRUSSELS — Belgium's anti-immigrant Vlaams Blok party was branded racist yesterday in a Supreme Court ruling that will force one of Europe's most successful such parties to reorganize under a new name.
		The top court rejected all 21 arguments put forward by the Vlaams Blok in an appeal against the April ruling by a court in Ghent, saying that freedom of speech had its limits under tough new anti-racism legislation.
		Two opinion polls last month showed the Vlaams Blok as the most popular party in the region, ahead of the Christian Democrats, after it came in second in June's regional elections.
	www.washingtontimes.com /world/20041109-110231-9530r.htm (526 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Europe \| Court rules Vlaams Blok is racist
		The Blok was appealing against a court ruling which stated that it was guilty of violating anti-racism legislation.
		Recent opinion polls suggest the Vlaams Blok is the most popular party in the Dutch-speaking region of Flanders.
		Vlaams Blok's leaders were prepared for the ruling, and are making plans to launch a new party with a new name, Vlaams Belang, or Flemish Interest, Belgian media say.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/3994867.stm (468 words)

	Belgium's Far Right Resurgent
		But instead the Blok is stronger than ever, forecast to do well in a forthcoming general election (scheduled for May 18) and able to adopt the moral high ground.
		The case, which the Blok characterised as "the attempted murder of the Vlaams Blok" centred around allegations of racism.
		At issue was a pamphlet published by the Blok in 1999 calling for separate education for Muslims, a special punitive tax for companies employing foreigners from non-EU countries and cuts in child support for those same employees.
	www.buzzle.com /editorials/2-28-2003-36421.asp (559 words)

	The Flemish Republic
		Vlaams Belang was the only party to vote “no.” Contrary to Belgium’s neighbours, France and the Netherlands, the Belgian regime did not a allow a referendum to take place in Belgium.
		According to Vlaams Belang the European Union is in essence an organisation for intergovernmental cooperation between member states th...
		At the invitation of the Vlaams Belang he gave a lecture on the economic surplus value of small nation states.
	www.flemishrepublic.org (433 words)

	Flemish Block - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In 2003, a Vlaams Blok politician was dropped from a delegation of Flemish parliamentarians due to visit the Scottish parliament and Welsh assembly after strongly criticizing the SNP [2] (http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1034186,00.html), [3] (http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2003/08/276065.html).
		On November 9, 2004, the upheld a decision of the Appeal court of Ghent ruling that the Vlaams Blok was a racist party, or more precisely that the party pursued permanent incitement to discrimination and racial segregation.
		Official Vlaams Blok party comment on the conviction (http://majorityrights.com/index.php/weblog/comments/39/)
	www.sevenhills.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Vlaams_Blok (1129 words)

	Int. Socialist Voice (21-12-04) - Belgium: 1500 at anti fascist demo in Ghent
		The Vlaams Blok despite its electoral successes has been repeatedly defeated on the streets and its student organisation is still banned from the University in Gent.
		The commando was led by the national chairperson of the Vlaams Belang youth, Hans Verreyt.
		The danger of the Vlaams Blok losing its state subsidies (€ 5.6 million a year!) was not real.
	www.socialistparty.net /pub/pages/intrvoice21-12-04/3.htm (2054 words)

	You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life - Albert Camus
		The Blok may be dead but what it stood for certainly isn’t—and never will be, so long as one single Fleming remains alive, because what it stood for was life for Flanders, nothing more, and nothing less than that: it stood for the survival of the Flemish nation.
		Vlaams Blok ban is frontpage news in all Flemish newspapers: Belang van Limburg, de Standaard, Gazet van Antwerpen, Het Laatste Nieuws, ….
		The reaction to the Vlaams Blok banning is an extremely important topic for our time (which is or should be of great interest to all countries in the Western World).
	majorityrights.com /index.php/weblog/comments/39 (2655 words)

	Top court brands Belgian far-right party racist - The CHUD.COM Message Boards
		Belgium's far-right Vlaams Blok was branded racist in a supreme court ruling that will force one of Europe's most successful anti-immigrant parties to relaunch itself.
		The supreme court upheld a verdict by a lower court in April that found the party to be guilty of "permanent incitement to segregation and racism".
		The Vlaams Blok's rise has been helped by public antipathy to the ruling elite in Antwerp, whose council was forced to resign en masse over a corruption scandal in March last year.
	www.chud.com /forums/showthread.php?p=1311028 (837 words)

	Belgium's extreme right Vlaams Blok increases vote in regional elections
		The aim of the Vlaams Blok is a separate Flemish state, and Dewinter boasted, “we already have a Flemish parliament and government.
		Federal Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt described the results for the Vlaams Blok as a “stain”, and pledged to continue the “cordon sanitaire” along with the other establishment parties, and not allow the VB to participate in government at any level.
		The Vlaams Blok is now Flanders' fourth strongest party behind the Liberals (whose vote increased marginally), the Christian Democrats (down 1.4 percent) and the Socialist Party (the biggest losers, down 2.7 percent).
	www.wsws.org /articles/2000/oct2000/belg-19o.shtml (902 words)

	Jonathan Lockhart's Notebook: Cordon sanitaire I: Belgium (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Now the Belgian Supreme Court has seen fit to ban the Vlaams Blok, a separatist party, on the grounds that it is 'racist'.
		The success of the Vlaams Blok has threatened the establishment in Belgium, which has hit back by changing the constitution and passing laws that criminalize the Blok.
		Suspicions remain that it is as much the attractiveness of the separatist policy of the Vlaams Blok that threatens its opponents.
	www.jonathanlockhart.com /2004/11/cordon_sanitair.html (948 words)

	Young Conservatives Online - Regulating to Death
		The “incitement to segregation and racism” that was spoken of was the Vlaams Blok’s advocacy of the expulsion of non-European immigrants.
		The Vlaams Blok, dubbed by the Europeans as far right, is advocating the expulsion of immigrants who reject European culture and values; as defined, obviously, by the Vlaams Blok itself.
		As Filip Dewinter, leader of the Vlaams Blok said, Muslim immigration is particularly bad because “the way of life of Muslims is not compatible with ours”.
	www.yconservatives.com /takala-105.html (671 words)

	Alert!: Vlaams Blok boss visits Rotterdam
		The Vlaams Blok, and especially Filip Dewinter, has never hid their admiration for Fortuyn and, after the victory of Leefbaar Rotterdam in the March 2002 elections, immediately established Leefbaar Antwerpen.
		The Vlaams Blok has continued to flaunt its esteem for Fortuyn, claiming that he "breached political correctness in the Netherlands".
		On 6 May, a Vlaams Blok delegation laid a wreath at the Belgian-Dutch border to pay tribute to Fortuyn and to honour his political legacy.
	www.xs4all.nl /~afa/alert/engels/sl10_2003.html (1032 words)

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