Thousands of Flemish people took part in the 82nd edition of the Vlaams Nationaal Zangfeest (Flemish National Singing Feast) in the Lotto Arena in Antwerp on Sunday March 17th. Erik Stoffelen, chairman of the Algemeen Nederlandse Zangverbond (ANZ), called on everyone to vote for parties and politicians who notice a Flemish message in the coming elections. He expects the elected "to finally stop the billion-dollar transfers to Wallonia".
In his speech, Stoffelen stated that there are too many social needs in Flanders to continue to transfer 12 billion euros annually to Wallonia under the guise of "so-called solidarity". “These transfers put a huge mortgage on our social security. Too many Flemish people are on waiting lists for social housing and too few disabled people can rely on the interventions they are urgently entitled to."
According to him, a Flemish social security is no longer desirable, but necessary. Not in 2024, but in 2019. “Do you like this and do you want to do something about it yourself? Then tear up your membership card from your unitary health insurance fund today and split the social security yourself! Just do it! "Said the ANZ chairman.
He also raised the Catalan question in his speech and demanded the release of the Catalans who are in a Spanish cell for the independence referendum. “People can disagree politically, but don't put dissenters, political opponents in prison. Not anywhere, and certainly not in Europe where the ancient Greeks invented the "democracia" (demokratí). Release them. The European Union will be democratic or it will not be. People cannot defend and implement democracy anywhere in the world to eliminate it manu militari in our European backyard. ”
It was Stoffelen's last speech at the Vlaams Nationaal Zangfeest. In April he passed on the ANZ chairman's hammer to Bart Fierens. The Zangfeest was also attended by many Flemish politicians this year, such as Antwerp mayor Bart De Wever (N-VA), who had pinned a Flemish-Catalan pin for the occasion. Tom Van Grieken and Bart Claes from Vlaams Belang and Fons Duchateau, Ben Weyts, Jan Peumans and Siegfried Bracke from N-VA were also present.
In his speech, Stoffelen stated that there are too many social needs in Flanders to continue to transfer 12 billion euros annually to Wallonia under the guise of "so-called solidarity". “These transfers put a huge mortgage on our social security. Too many Flemish people are on waiting lists for social housing and too few disabled people can rely on the interventions they are urgently entitled to."
According to him, a Flemish social security is no longer desirable, but necessary. Not in 2024, but in 2019. “Do you like this and do you want to do something about it yourself? Then tear up your membership card from your unitary health insurance fund today and split the social security yourself! Just do it! "Said the ANZ chairman.
He also raised the Catalan question in his speech and demanded the release of the Catalans who are in a Spanish cell for the independence referendum. “People can disagree politically, but don't put dissenters, political opponents in prison. Not anywhere, and certainly not in Europe where the ancient Greeks invented the "democracia" (demokratí). Release them. The European Union will be democratic or it will not be. People cannot defend and implement democracy anywhere in the world to eliminate it manu militari in our European backyard. ”
It was Stoffelen's last speech at the Vlaams Nationaal Zangfeest. In April he passed on the ANZ chairman's hammer to Bart Fierens. The Zangfeest was also attended by many Flemish politicians this year, such as Antwerp mayor Bart De Wever (N-VA), who had pinned a Flemish-Catalan pin for the occasion. Tom Van Grieken and Bart Claes from Vlaams Belang and Fons Duchateau, Ben Weyts, Jan Peumans and Siegfried Bracke from N-VA were also present.
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