S kallar till pressträff om SD som ett säkerhetshot med Rysslandskoppling 2022-09-02

Belgium's top court has dealt a temporary blow to one of Europe's most successful anti-immigrant parties, Vlaams Blok, by declaring it racist.

Belgium's supreme court on Tuesday voted to uphold a verdict by a lower court in April that found the far-right nationalist party guilty of "permanent incitement to segregation and racism." The justices rejected all 21 arguments put forward by the Vlaams Blok in an appeal case, arguing that freedom of speech had its limits under the country's tough anti-racism legislation.

The verdict effectively shuts down one of Belgium's most popular parties by cutting it off from some €250,000 ($325,000) in annual public funding. Anti-racist activists, who have lobbied to keep the party, which espouses anti-immigrant policies and advocates secession, out of the country's politics, applauded the court's decision.
...

Two recent opinion polls ranked Vlaams Block the most popular party in the Flemish-speaking north, where it won 24 percent of votes in June's regional elections. In national elections in May last year, the party posted its best performance in its 26-year history by taking 18 seats in Belgium's national parliament.