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Bart De Wever, the president of NVA party (separatist Flemish party, 1st party in Flanders), hopes Flanders will be reunified with the Netherlands.
“They would be one of the strongest economies in the world. The ports of Antwerp and Rotterdam could merge and become the front door of North-Western Europe’s economy.
Flanders and the Netherlands used to form a unity, but the fall of Antwerp at the time of the Eighty Years’ War, in 1585, brought it to an end.
If it seems unthinkable, federalism was also unthinkable in Belgium in the 60’, but it became reality in the 70’.
If I could die as a Southern Dutch, I would die much happier than as a Belgian”.
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