Flanders

Laura Jacobs reflects on the reasons behind the success of the Flemish far right.

A month on from the national, regional and EU elections in Belgium and the dust is still settling. How did the Greens fare and what possibilities lie ahead?

In Belgium voting is compulsory. Nevertheless, more and more people choose not to vote.

Belgian federalism and European federalism have reached the end of an epoch. Both have to be reinvented. To achieve this we must start from our shared interests and recognise the interdependence that links us. Environmentalists who have always been passionate federalists have to be the motors of this reinvention.