Belgium

nation state

Belgium  link Sourcewatch
Capital city	Brussels
Location	Europe
Leader	Prime Minister of Belgium
Type	nation state
Subgroups	State Security Service (Belgium)
Former European colonial power

Belgium is a nation state in Northern Europe. It covers an area of 30,689 km² (11,849 sq mi) and is densely populated, with more than 11.7 million inhabitants as of 2024. It is divided into three highly autonomous regions: the Flemish Region (Flanders) in the north, the Walloon Region (Wallonia) in the south, and the Brussels-Capital Region in the middle. The capital and largest metropolitan region is Brussels; other major cities are Antwerp, Ghent, Charleroi, Liège, Bruges, Namur, and Leuven. Brussels is the de facto capital of the European Union, hosting the official seats of the European Commission, the Council of the European Union, and the European Council, as well as one of two seats of the European Parliament (the other being Strasbourg). Brussels also hosts the headquarters of NATO.

Deep state

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As NATO headquarters, Brussels is an important node in the Supranational Deep State network. It is a big cocaine trafficking hub. Sibel Edmonds states that Belgium is one of 4 countries which could not be monitored by the FBI under FISA (the others being Turkey, UK and Azerbaijan), presumably due to concerns about NATO security. The Belgian Deep state was partially exposed through the Brabant Massacres.

Events

Dutroux Affair

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Marc Dutroux is a serial rapist and murderer of children who was convicted in 1989 and spent 3 years in prison for the abduction and rape of 5 young girls before being paroled. He later reoffended and was convicted of further rapes and murders. He has maintained that he was part of a European wide sex trafficking network involving senior establishment figures such as politicians, judges & policemen, a claim supported by Belgian law enforcement's failure to follow standard operative procedures and their multiple missteps in handling his case, a pattern consistent with the VIPaedophile phenomenon. Joël van der Reijden has researched the topic and published about it on ISGP.

Brabant Massacres

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The Brabant Massacres have been linked to a conspiracy among the Belgian "stay-behind" network SDRA8 (Gladio) — operating as a secret branch of the Belgian military service — the Belgian Gendarmerie SDRA6 and the US Defense Intelligence Agency. The killings may well have been false flag attacks similar to those which were carried out in Italy, a theory explored in a 1992 BBC Timewatch series 'Operation Gladio' directed by Allan Francovich. One member of the Belgian armed forces interviewed, for example, recounted being ordered to make a covert reconnaissance of one of the supermarkets which was subsequently attacked.

Operation Gladio report

After the European Parliament's directive to investigate Operation Gladio the Belgian parliamentary inquiry, headed by Senator Roger Lallemand which produced a report which disclosed no substantive evidence that Gladio was involved in any acts of "terrorism" in Belgium.

TTIP opposition

Every municipality in Belgium publicly declared itself against the proposed treaty TTIP, a treaty the Trump administration later abandoned.

Policies

Traffic Violations

In 2023, The Belgium government enacted a law that made it possible to claim traffic violations via taxes or via a bailiff, but also by obliging the offender's employer to pay part of their salary directly into the public treasury by docking their wages. For those without employers, the fine can also be withdrawn from social benefits and rental income. If an offender were to be found in a traffic check, it might even be that their car is confiscated. It was also reported by The Gazet of Antwerp that EU countries could enact the law on their soil as well, setting an EU precedent.