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by Grégoire Canlorbe • October 17, 2025 at 5:00 am
* [The Belgian N-VA Party] program systematically addresses the major ills of Belgian political life, starting with the abysmal debt that threatens our financial balance.
* Next comes the issue of creeping Islamization, fueled by powerful Islamist networks, particularly in Brussels, and to a lesser extent in Antwerp.
* Belgium is virtually bankrupt; its debt and budget deficit are out of control. This is mission No. 1 for the N-VA: to get public finances back on track. The success of this mission determines everything else.
* Our cities, like the rest of Western Europe, are buckling under the yoke of all sorts of regulations, the source of which is the European Union. There is no longer a real business climate, and European law acts as an instrument of economic castration. Take energy: its cost is three to five times higher in Europe than in the United States — no industry can sustainably withstand such a differential.
* For [Belgium's "left wing" political parties], any criticism of Islam — which, please recall, is not a race, but a political doctrine — automatically falls into the categories of Islamophobia and racism. Islam, as a political ideology, refers to the use of the principles, values or texts of Islam... to structure a system of governance, laws and public policies.
* [A] perverse form of racism, allied with a new anti-Semitism, unfortunately, [is] re-emerging on the left with a worrying severity. When a far-left "comedian", Herman Brusselmans, writes that he wants to slit the throats of every Jew he meets in the street, what is funny? Is that humor or a call to murder?
* Today the main problem of Europe appears to be the European Union, apart from the Common Market, a practical necessity. European law, sadly, has become an instrument that prevents economic development.
* Paris and Brussels are dirty, saturated with aggression, and everywhere you go you encounter asylum seekers who have been denied asylum and have no right to reside in the country but remain there nonetheless because they are supposedly "undeportable". The police try to do their job but are constantly sabotaged by left- and far-left judges who, under various pretexts, release the worst thugs, criminals and rapists.
* Our challenge, of truly civilizational scope, is to restore hope — the possibility for every European family to build a better future for their children — one commensurate with Europe's great, historical contribution to civilization.

"Paris and Brussels are dirty, saturated with aggression, and everywhere you go you encounter asylum seekers who have been denied asylum and have no right to reside in the country but remain there nonetheless because they are supposedly 'undeportable'. The police try to do their job but are constantly sabotaged by left- and far-left judges who, under various pretexts, release the worst thugs, criminals and rapists." — Drieu Godefridi. Pictured: Two asylum-seekers from Afghanistan sit in their tent at a camp set up by around 100 single male migrants in Place Sainte-Croix, in the city center of Brussels, on September 15, 2023. (Photo by Simon Wohlfahrt/AFP via Getty Images)

Drieu Godefridi is a jurist (University Saint-Louis, University of Louvain), philosopher (University Saint-Louis, University of Louvain) and PhD in legal theory (Paris IV-Sorbonne). He is an entrepreneur, CEO of a European private education group and director of PAN Medias Group. The author of The Green Reich (2020), he is a fellow traveler of the New Flemish Alliance (N-VA), a conservative, nationalist political party.

Grégoire Canlorbe: You were a list leader for the conservative party N-VA in 2024 Belgian federal election. How do you sum up what this party can bring to the Belgians and, in particular, the Walloons?

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