Belgium's Prime Minister Resigns After Revolt Over Migration http://www.veteranstoday.com/2018/02/20/shocking-new-evidence-maidan-snipers-confess-they-were-under-orders-from-coup-leaders-to-shoot-police-and-protesters/ Belgium’s Prime Minister Resigns After Revolt Over Migration Belgium’s prime minister, under pressure from the right and left, submitted his resignation Tuesday in the face of a populist revolt over his migration policy, which opponents say threatens Belgian sovereignty. Prime Minister Charles Michel’s problems echo those of other European leaders, including President Emmanuel Macron of France, who are trying to maintain centrist governments in the face of opposition from both flanks.  Right-wing allies of Mr. Michel’s center-right government abandoned him earlier this month, angry over his migration policy which had Belgium join a United Nations accord that agrees to share the burdens of immigration. Left-wing opponents, meanwhile, demanded more ambitious environmental policies, lower taxes and more affordable prescription drugs.  Mr. Michel made an impassioned, last-gasp speech to Parliament and asked his left-wing opponents to forge a new alliance that would keep him in office. “I know that this government doesn’t have the confidence of this chamber. I know it. I can feel it,” the prime minister told a silent Parliament. “The question is: Do we want to work together on a project taking into account the interests of our citizens?”  But left-wing parties, who have longstanding grievances of their own, were unpersuaded. They called for a vote of no-confidence and Mr. Michel promptly submitted his resignation to King Philippe, the Belgian head of state. Martin Conway, a professor of European history at Oxford, said the resignation revealed not only Belgium’s instability, but also the difficulty of holding a political center in Europe today.  “It’s clever, sensible, technical governance which is really under threat,” he said.  Right-wing politicians declared victory and said this served as a warning to leaders across Europe.  “They have to listen to the people,” said Barbara Pas, a lawmaker with the far-right party Vlaams Belang. https://thebestfeeds.wordpress.com/2018/12/20/belgiums-prime-minister-resigns-after-revolt-over-migration-the-new-york-times-2/ The collapse of a centrist government in the heart of Western Europe would represent a high-profile casualty in the wave of populist and nationalist anger across the Continent. Still, political analysts warned against drawing broader conclusions from a uniquely Belgian political moment.  That is because Belgium is a nation divided by language as much as politics.  Mr. Michel, a French speaker, had built a fragile governing coalition with the conservative Flemish separatist party known as the N-VA. That alliance fell apart earlier this month over the N-VA’s opposition to the United Nations migration agreement.  Koert Debeuf, a scholar and former adviser to the Belgian government, said the N-VA took up the migration issue as a way to maintain support among conservative voters who had been gravitating toward the far right. He said the current crisis was less about the failure of the Belgian government and more about each party jockeying for position in elections set for May. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYX3Cpcqtww    Singing Hallelujah -