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Flemish nationalist Bart De Wever sworn in as Belgian prime minister
Flemish nationalist Bart De Wever has been sworn in as the country's new prime minister following months of painstaking negotiations to form a coalition that moves the country further to the right.
The agreement struck on Friday makes De Wever the first nationalist from the Dutch-speaking Flanders region to lead the country.
He and his Flemish nationalist N-VA party will govern in an eclectic five-party coalition with the centrist Christian Democrats, the leftist Vooruit, the francophone centre-right Reformist Movement, and the centrist Les Engages.
De Wever has in recent years toned down his calls for Flanders to become an independent country.
On Monday he took the oath to lead the country in front of King Philippe — a monarch he has long-criticised for symbolising the traditional old concept of Belgian unity.
"That is one of the paradoxes of this new Prime Minister. Bart De Wever
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The Year of Silence: Belgium’s darkest moments during WWII
Historian Herman Van Goethem, rector of Antwerp University and a former director of Kazerne Dossin, the Holocaust and Human Rights Museum in Mechelen, spent 14 years of his life writing a book about Antwerp during 1942.
The book – in Dutch “1942, Het jaar van de stilte” or “1942, The year of silence” – refers to the year when Belgian authorities kept silent about the Nazi persecutions of Jewish people, and when some on the local level collaborated willingly with the occupation force.
The book is a stark reminder of the Nazi-German occupation of Belgium and a warning to contemporary society against the dangers of discrimination, segregation, dehumanisation and the expulsion of minority groups, leading ultimately to crimes against humanity and genocide. Until the end of WWII, these crimes were not even defined and governments were allowed to treat their inhabitants as they liked without any outside interference.
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