Brussels Correspondent - A very formal reception held in London on Flemish independence leader Bart De Wever by Conservative Prime Minister, David Cameron, is making waves. Especially since the head of the New Flemish Alliance (NVA) compares his visit on 18 March that a bit more famous in his time of Mahatma Gandhi at 10 Downing Street.
"Gandhi insisted on a photo to show the door to the illiterate Indians who had been officially recognized by his people. (...) The symbolic steps are not determined by this but by the future," he wrote in De Wever the daily De Standaard. The style is a bit abstruse, but the conclusion is clear: "I am curious to know if [the visit] is [a symbolic step] for the Flemish movement." The separatist leader, who does for the moment no other function than that of deputy chairman of the EVN, has in any case not hide his pride in being received in what he describes as " address the world famous ".
"An indescribable feeling," says he, too impressed by the first word of Mr. Cameron, "so British": "Above all, do not step on the cat, I could not survive politically." The two men spoke for forty minutes before a reception is held in the presence of two other members of Her Majesty's Government.
Initiated by MEP David Callahan, organized by the British ambassador in Brussels, the meeting was to include the NVA in the camp of the friends of the Tories. Programs of both parties on immigration, environment and especially rigorous management of public finances would be very close. And for the occasion, everyone preferred to forget that the NVA had, over time, supported the Scottish Nationalists! The case was ultimately not the "thunder in the sky Belgo-British" as prophesied in La Libre Belgique.
She is experienced as unexpected as an episode of a political crisis that soon will pass mark of 300 days. The support of the Prime Minister of a major European country to the international credibility of the separatist Flemish fit well in any case, with the usual rules of diplomacy. In Paris and Berlin, too, we inquired and were sometimes concerned about the possible divorce but Belgian is done discreetly.
In Belgium, the episode was ultimately not attracted much comment. Perhaps because, even in the camp of the Dutch parties now, Bart De Wever is designated as the chief institutional deadlock and we want him to refrain from further publicity. Never mind: polls are, themselves, at the zenith for the NVA.
The latest of them, she now collects 31.5% of the vote in Flanders. "The strategies of exclusion does not work," says Mr. De Wever. Jean-Pierre Stroobants 
"Gandhi insisted on a photo to show the door to the illiterate Indians who had been officially recognized by his people. (...) The symbolic steps are not determined by this but by the future," he wrote in De Wever the daily De Standaard. The style is a bit abstruse, but the conclusion is clear: "I am curious to know if [the visit] is [a symbolic step] for the Flemish movement." The separatist leader, who does for the moment no other function than that of deputy chairman of the EVN, has in any case not hide his pride in being received in what he describes as " address the world famous ".
"An indescribable feeling," says he, too impressed by the first word of Mr. Cameron, "so British": "Above all, do not step on the cat, I could not survive politically." The two men spoke for forty minutes before a reception is held in the presence of two other members of Her Majesty's Government.
Initiated by MEP David Callahan, organized by the British ambassador in Brussels, the meeting was to include the NVA in the camp of the friends of the Tories. Programs of both parties on immigration, environment and especially rigorous management of public finances would be very close. And for the occasion, everyone preferred to forget that the NVA had, over time, supported the Scottish Nationalists! The case was ultimately not the "thunder in the sky Belgo-British" as prophesied in La Libre Belgique.
She is experienced as unexpected as an episode of a political crisis that soon will pass mark of 300 days. The support of the Prime Minister of a major European country to the international credibility of the separatist Flemish fit well in any case, with the usual rules of diplomacy. In Paris and Berlin, too, we inquired and were sometimes concerned about the possible divorce but Belgian is done discreetly.
In Belgium, the episode was ultimately not attracted much comment. Perhaps because, even in the camp of the Dutch parties now, Bart De Wever is designated as the chief institutional deadlock and we want him to refrain from further publicity. Never mind: polls are, themselves, at the zenith for the NVA.
The latest of them, she now collects 31.5% of the vote in Flanders. "The strategies of exclusion does not work," says Mr. De Wever. Jean-Pierre Stroobants
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