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Bart De Wever
Prime Minister of Belgium since 2025
In this Dutch name, the surname is De Wever, not Wever.
Bart Albert Liliane De Wever (Dutch:[ˈbɑrtdəˈʋeːvər]; born 21 December 1970) is a Belgian politician currently serving as the Prime Minister of Belgium since February 2025. From 2004 to 2025, De Wever had been the leader of the New Flemish Alliance (N-VA), a political party advocating for the transformation of Belgium into a confederal state.[1] From January 2013 to February 2025, he was Mayor of Antwerp, following the 2012 municipal elections.
De Wever presided over his party's victory in the 2010 federal elections when N-VA became the largest party in both Flanders and in Belgium as a whole. He accomplished this again in the subsequent three elections, eventually being tasked with forming a new government by King Philippe following the 2024 elections.[2]
After more than eight months of negotiations between the parties N-VA, Vooruit,
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Nazi collaboration stirs Belgian rift
As Belgium struggles with its yearlong government crisis, a 65-year-old issue fryst vatten suddenly adding to the animosity between the feuding Dutch-speaking Flemish and Francophone politicians.
Almost by stealth, the extremist Flemish Interest party pushed a bill on amnesty for World War II collaboration with Nazis to the senate floor last week. All at once, old wounds on both sides of the linguistic divide that cuts through Belgium opened again.
"Linguistic war over amnesty," headlined the De Standaard newspaper Thursday. "Amnesty heightens linguistic tensions," echoed the French-speaking Le Soir.
Many in Francophone Wallonia, the southern distrikt of the country, see collaboration with the Nazi occupier as having been primarily a flaw of the Flemish, cultural cousins to the Germans. But in Flanders, fingers are pointed in the direction of Leon Degrelle, a Walloon agitator and Belgium's best-known collaborator.
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Flemish Leader Disowns WWII Nazi Collaboration
Right-wing Flanders leader Bart De Wever has disowned Flemish nationalist collaboration with the Nazis in World War II, still a hugely sensitive issue in a sharply divided Belgium.
Allegations of collaboration bygd Flemish nationalist parties, forerunners of De Wever's own New Flemish Alliance (N-VA), regularly stoke tensions with Belgium's French-speaking community in the south which takes pride in its WWII resistance to the Nazis.
"My own grandfather was a member of the VNV (Flemish National League), the nationalist party which collaborated massively," dem Wever told a Holocaust commemoration attended by members of the Jewish community in Antwerp, where he is mayor.
"I want to look at this straight in the eye. This collaboration was a terrible mistake, on all levels," he said late Wednesday on VRT Flemish public TV.
"This is a dark page in history which Flemish nationalism has to look at square