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Global Capital, Private Investment, Venture Capital and the Innovation Economy - Why America Still Pulls the Money Belgium Wants
Why does global capital keep crossing oceans toward the United States? Why does private investment so often choose New York, Silicon Valley, Austin or Boston before Brussels, Antwerp, Ghent or Liège? Why does venture capital still see the American market as the natural home of the innovation economy? For Belgium, and for Europe more broadly, these are not abstract economic questions. They go to the heart of our prosperity, our industrial future and our ability to build the ne
Redactie / Editors
May 105 min read
Belgium’s Moral Crusade Against Israel Has a Price – Stop (H)arming Israel
There are moments when a government must stand firm. But there are also moments when it mainly poses as morally superior, while reality is more complex and dangerous than a press conference in Brussels. Belgium’s policy banning the export and transit of defense material to Israel increasingly falls into the second category. It is presented as principled, humane, and legally cautious. In reality, it risks turning into symbolic politics, selective outrage, and strategic self-ha
Redactie / Editors
May 96 min read
Speech upon receiving a short story collection about the consequences of the Gaza war in the Netherlands
Thank you for this invitation. I am honoured to receive this anthology. "Woe to those who call evil good." Today we celebrate Liberation Day. Before I left this morning, I hung out the Dutch flag. But with a heavy heart. Liberation. Freedom. Do we still have it? Does the country that was fought and suffered for still exist? Or are we slowly waking up to realise that the idea we have of that country - freedom, fundamental rights, tolerance - has been taken for granted for too
Keyvan Shahbazi
May 76 min read
More People, Less Prosperity - How Migration Erodes Our Per-Capita Income
Europe is growing. The economies of Belgium and the rest of the Union produce more year after year. GDP rises, headlines report progress, and politicians proudly point to growth figures. But there is one number that rarely takes center stage in that debate: income per resident. And that number tells a very different story.Imagine a country with ten residents and an economy of 100. Income per capita: 10. Now five new residents arrive, and the economy grows to 112. Sounds like
Redactie / Editors
May 74 min read
Weverian Silence
For years, Bart De Wever said that this country is fundamentally broken, that Belgium doesn't work, and that Flanders is systematically undermined by the federal compromise model. He led the N-VA — a party whose very name carries the message: New Flemish Alliance. Not Belgian, but Flemish. Many Flemish people followed him, hoping he would remain true to that principle. But today we must ask ourselves: is Flanders still his priority?
Alexandra S. Villers
May 62 min read
Energy policy in Belgium - 1800 companies waiting for an electricity connection
Anyone who wants to expand or start a business in Belgium today, electrify a factory, or install a charging station soon discovers that energy policy is not a policy paper, but a power socket with a connection that never arrives. Grid congestion, electrification, competitiveness, and energy policy: these are the four words that will determine in the coming years whether Belgium remains an industrial country or becomes a museum of good intentions.
The paradox is painful
Redactie / Editors
May 66 min read
The Belgian secret service was no longer a secret to Beijing
In February 2025, a report shocked Belgium and the entire European intelligence community. Chinese hackers had had access to the email system of the State Security Service (VSSE) for years. For three years, Beijing was reading along with Belgian State Security. Not figuratively, but literally. Between 2021 and May 2023, Chinese hackers intercepted around ten percent of all incoming and outgoing emails from the VSSE, our intelligence service, which was no longer much of a secr
Thijs Jansen
May 55 min read
The moral meaning of entrepreneurship
In the fourth lecture of the John Galt School, Adriano Gianturco- Professor of Political Science at the Instituto Brasileiro de Mercado de Capitais in Belo Horizonte - addressed a pivotal issue for understanding capitalism in its moral dimension: entrepreneurship. The topic raises far-reaching questions: what legitimises profit? What is the relationship between property, risk, and responsibility? Why should a free society honour those who produce, invest, innovate, organize s
Lorenzo Cianti
May 46 min read
The Quantum Growth of Global Antisemitism - A World on Edge
The horrific events of yesterday have sent a seismic shock through Jewish communities worldwide, with a chilling resonance here in Belgium. In Northwest London’s Golders Green, a 45-year-old man was arrested after allegedly hunting for "visibly Jewish" individuals, leaving two men—aged 34 and 76—with serious stab wounds. Simultaneously, across the Atlantic in Los Angeles, a Jewish man was brutally assaulted and nearly strangled outside the Adas Torah synagogue in Pico-Roberts
Shifra Senderowicz
May 14 min read
Energy policy in Belgium – Privatising the energy supply to French state-owned companies, closing nuclear power plants, paying compensation, and ultimately reversing everything at a cost of billions
Belgium is once again in the process of making a new 180-degree turn.
From dependence on France’s Engie / Electrabel, to a nuclear phase-out, and then to the possible reacquisition of nuclear control by the Belgian state.
The fact that the current government under Prime Minister Bart De Wever wants to bring control back into Belgian hands is commendable. However, previous governments have saddled our country with billions in unnecessary costs and ended our energy independe
Redactie / Editors
Apr 304 min read
Objectivist Ethics Against the Morality of Sacrifice
In the third lecture of the John Galt School, journalist Stefano Magni explored one of the most demanding aspects of Objectivist philosophy: ethics. As long as the discussion remains on the terrain of opposition to collectivist ideologies or the defence of laissez-faire capitalism, Ayn Rand is regarded by scholars as one of the great political minds of the twentieth century. When, however, the conversation shifts to the controversial subject of rational selfishness, academic
Lorenzo Cianti
Apr 256 min read
The Hague Chooses Political Games Over the National Interest - What the Collapse of the Emergency Asylum Measures Act Really Means
For much of the past week, the news was dominated by one story: the Emergency Asylum Measures Act failing in the Senate. What should have been an initial step in the right direction toward a stricter and more realistic migration policy ended instead in mudslinging between politicians on the left and right. Once again, it became painfully clear that The Hague, like so many political elites across Europe, is primarily preoccupied with itself and only marginally concerned with t
Daniël de Liever
Apr 245 min read
Former Anders chairwoman Gwendolyn Rutten appeared yesterday on VRT’s De Afspraak to comment on Israel’s participation in the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest
Former Anders chairwoman Gwendolyn Rutten appeared yesterday on VRT’s De Afspraak to comment on Israel’s participation in the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest
Redactie / Editors
Apr 234 min read
Redactie / Editors
Apr 230 min read
More than a year has passed since the federal government took office - An assessment of one year of policy under Prime Minister Bart De Wever (N-VA)
More than a year has passed since the federal government took office - An assessment of one year of policy under Prime Minister Bart De Wever (N-VA)
Redactie / Editors
Apr 205 min read
The Chainsaw Revolution - Javier Milei’s Rothbardian Assault on Argentine Collectivism
Over the past few decades, mankind has watched helplessly as political power has expanded without limits. The aggrandisement of the executive branch, centralised planning, and governments’ habitual resort to purported “emergency” measures have constricted liberty, undermined voluntary cooperation, and brought about a sharp decline in economic prosperity. This trend leads citizens toward ever-greater subjugation to the State’s coercive apparatus
Lorenzo Cianti
Apr 2016 min read
Double Standards – Why Jews and Arabs Are Treated Differently in the Middle East
Since the creation of the State of Israel in 1948, shortly after the Second World War, and during the broader wave of decolonisation that followed the retreat of European powers, many new states have emerged around the world. This process was often accompanied by major population movements. srael, as a Jewish state, has an Arab minority of about 20%, consisting of both Muslims and Christians. By contrast, in the surrounding Arab countries, almost all Jews have disappeared, ha
Redactie / Editors
Apr 196 min read
Hebrew rediscovered – From sacred language to popular language
Some languages accompany the birth of a civilisation. Others come to embody its destiny. Hebrew belongs to the latter category. At Rome’s Il Pitigliani Cultural Center, the second event in the series Lechaim – To Life! A Journey into Jewish Identity, devoted to the rebirth of Hebrew, had the great merit of moving beyond formulaic explanations and restoring to the subject its full historical, spiritual, and intellectual depth.
Lorenzo Cianti
Apr 185 min read
There Is Nothing New About Trump’s Economic Populism
The Supreme Court’s 6–3 decision invalidating Donald Trump’s emergency tariffs, followed almost immediately by the President’s response reinstating and increasing them, reminds us once again how rapidly American politics evolves. Yet, in some cases, it pays to recognise that certain underlying threads in government policy remain constant, regardless of the period or the leaders in charge. Too often, so-called “experts” weigh in on current events without any real command of ec
Lorenzo Cianti
Apr 166 min read
UAntwerpen, UGent, and VUB award Francesca Albanese an honorary doctorate — Belgian universities are getting it completely wrong
On April 2, Francesca Albanese received an honorary doctorate from no fewer than three Flemish universities (UAntwerpen, UGent, VUB) at the Queen Elisabeth Hall in Antwerp.
This was the first time these three universities had jointly awarded an honorary doctorate.
The fact that Albanese was granted this honour by Flemish universities is troubling
Redactie / Editors
Apr 154 min read
“The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.”
— Ayn Rand
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