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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Raf Casert

Belgium has a new prime minister, one who long tried to gut the nation and seek regional autonomy

Belgium New Government - (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

Belgium has a new prime minister whose political purpose was long to break up the nation, gut the state structures and give ever more autonomy to his northern Flanders at the cost of everyone else.

Bart De Wever took the oath early Monday, looking straight at King Philippe, the latest monarch of a royal house he so long had little but disdain for because it symbolized the old concept of Belgian unity.

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