This is the list of candidates for the Parti Socialiste in next Sunday’s elections in Brussels, the capital of Europe:

1 PICQUE Charles 2 DUPUIS Françoise 3 KIR Emir 4 DESIR Caroline 5 VERVOORT Rudi 6 TOMAS Eric 7 LAANAN Fadila 8 DAIF Mohamed 9 CARTHE Michèle 10 BOUARFA Sfia 11 CLOSE Philippe 12 FISZMAN Julie 13 MADRANE Rachid 14 EMMERY Isabelle 15 DECOURTY Willy 16 JAMOULLE Véronique 17 CHAPELLE Gregor 18 MARCUS Cathy 19 IKAZBAN Jamal 20 SAIDI Fatiha 21 VAN GORP Jean-Pierre 22 EL YOUSFI Nadia 23 DIALLO Béa 24 BROCHE Anne 25 AZZOUZI Mohamed 26 DE SAEGER Chantal 27 EL KTIBI Ahmed 28 RAZZOUK Souad 29 OZKARA Emin 30 BOMELE NKETO Nicole 31 LUYCKX Carlo 32 SWAELENS Anne 33 MOOCK Michel 34 GENOTTE Bernadette 35 BOUSTANI Abdallah 36 SCHEERS Pascale 37 POLET Yonnec 38 CHRISTOFFEL-DE VOS Renée 39 MOEREMANS Gérald 40 KALIMBIRIRO NSIMIRE Laetitia 41 BUCCELLA Fabrizio 42 NEKHOUL Yasmina 43 ERRAZI Mohammed 44 LEPOIVRE Florence 45 LAHLALI Mohamed 46 JOURDAIN Sigrid 47 LAARISSI Mounir 48 FONTAINE Isabelle 49 SPINETTE Jean 50 BARBE Martine 51 LAAOUEJ Ahmed 52 HERMAN Ariane 53 KOMPANY Pierre 54 AMRANI Myriem 55 DONMEZ Ibrahim 56 PAPADOPOULOS Anastasia 57 OUARTASSI Haed 58 MARTENS Anne-Françoise 59 GJANAS Amet 60 WERTS Catherine 61 ARDICLIK Hava 62 PIQUARD Paulette 63 BOUHJAR Abobakre 64 QUARESMINI Clara 65 M'FUNI LUKANDA Mado 66 VAN CAMPENHOUT Thierry 67 BELHOUARI Talbia 68 UYTTENDAELE Julien 69 DEMANNEZ Jean 70 OURIAGHLI Mohamed 71 LALIEUX Karine 72 THIELEMANS Freddy

A quote from a Vlaams Belang press release, 25 May 2009

No one pays more to the EU than a citizen of Flanders, the Dutch-speaking northern half of Belgium. A Fleming pays twice as much as a Walloon, triple as much as a Briton and five times more than a Frenchman.

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A quote from Heartland, Eurasian Review of Geopolitics:

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The map illustrates the ways in which the new American presidential administration will have to strike up relationships with Europe. The most worrying element is the increasing Russian influence in the "old continent" because of its role as major gas supplier to the European countries. Putin and Medvedev are elaborating a plan called "Russia Project" aiming to reintegrate some territories in the Russian Federation and the creation of a Russian Union. Russia can rely on a "Friendly Club" led by Germany. In order to face this strategical threat, the United States can rely for support on the enemies of EuRussia notably Great Britain and some of the baltic nations.

A quote from a News Release of the Countryside Alliance, 20 May 2009

New research published by the Countryside Alliance at the start of National Shooting Week has revealed wide scale misunderstanding amongst the general public about the use of guns. Nine out of 10 people thought that training of young people in the use of legal firearms would not stop misuse despite research in the UK and worldwide showing the opposite to be true.

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A quote from Richard North at the EUreferendum blog, 17 May 2009

[T]he scams perpetrated by MEPs are far greater than those in which our MPs indulge. But the European Parliament had the foresight to devise a system where no receipts are required, so there is nothing for the media to get excited about.

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A video with a speech of Belgian politician Filip Dewinter has been removed by Youtube "due to terms of use violation." The text of Dewinter's speech can be read here.

update:

Youtube removed the ban after a few hours.

A quote from the Daily Mail, 12 May 2009

The BBC yesterday appointed a Muslim as its head of religious programming in a radical departure from broadcasting tradition.

A quote from News of the World, 3 May 2009

Police figures have revealed that immigrants are carrying out one in six rapes in Britain – and an astonishing one in THREE in London. And last month it was revealed Romanian Ali Majlat attacked a British woman so he could go to jail because his rapist elder brother wrote to him saying how cushy life was in our prisons.

When the video says that 25% of the population and 50% of all newborns "in Belgium" are Muslims, this applies to Brussels and not yet to Belgium as a whole.

A quote from Hal G. P. Colebatch in The Australian, 21 April 2009

Britain appears to be evolving into the first modern soft totalitarian state. As a sometime teacher of political science and international law, I do not use the term totalitarian loosely. There are no concentration camps or gulags but there are thought police with unprecedented powers to dictate ways of thinking and sniff out heresy, and there can be harsh punishments for dissent.

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The great irony is that the new Nato secretary general is about to effectively apologise to the Islamic world for Mr Westergaard's drawing while he, as Danish prime minister, was part of the Bush-Blair alliance which alienated Muslims by invading Iraq.

A quote from Prof. Hans Jansen at the IFPS website, 28 March 2009

The advance of Islam can still go much further than is the case in Western Europe at the moment, and can only be stopped when we ensure that future victims of the jihad (i.e., the population of the Netherlands and the rest of Europe) retain their freedom of expression. Muhammad, the founder of Islam, always took special care to silence his possible critics first, usually by assassination, just like his namesake Mohammed Bouyeri who carried out the assassination of Theo van Gogh. The Islamic tradition itself teaches that only after Muhammad had silenced his opponents with violence could the process of Islamization begin. It is therefore of the utmost importance that we in the Netherlands (and anywhere else in the Free World) do not go any further towards the prohibition of criticism of Islam, because Islamic ideology is not resistant to the free word.

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A quote from Fox News, 24 March 2009:

Belgian police assigned three plainclothes officers to watch over a FOX News team shooting street scenes one morning in Molenbeek. When FOX News returned in the afternoon as more people were out and about, the police said it would be safer not to get out of the car. It wasn't even dark yet.

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A quote from Theodore Dalrymple in The American Conservative, 23 March 2009

But it is in Britain that the potential for violent social unrest is the greatest, for thanks to the corrupt improvidence of prime ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, Britain is not only the hardest hit of any of the major European countries by the crisis, but its social conditions are the worst. If the government had actually wanted social unrest and violence in the event of a severe economic downturn, it could hardly have arranged things better.

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