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The Guardian - UK
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Lisa O'Carroll in Brussels and Ben Quinn

NatCon conference resumes after Brussels court overturns closure order

Nigel Farage during his speech at the National Conservatism conference in Brussels.
Nigel Farage during his speech at the National Conservatism conference in Brussels. Photograph: Omar Havana/Getty Images

A radical right conference that was addressed by Nigel Farage and Suella Braverman as police arrived to close it down has resumed after a Brussels court overturned a local mayor’s attempt to stop it.

Following moves condemned as “unacceptable” and “unconstitutional” by the Belgian prime minister, Alexander De Croo, organisers of the National Conservatism conference went to the conseil d’état, Belgium’s supreme administrative court.

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