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O'Sullivan reviews A Throne in Brussels: Britain, the Saxe-Coburgs and the Belgianization of Europe by Paul Belien.
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Patriots for Themselves
Patriots for Themselves A Throne in Brussels: Britain, the Saxe-Coburgs and the Belgianization of Europe by Paul Belien (IMPRINT ACADEMIC, 384 PAGES, $49)
IN THE LAST FEW YEARS Belgian politicians have passed a law empowering them to arrest anyone for crimes committed anywhere, threatened to put Israel's prime minister, Ariel Sharon, under its provisions, generously amended the legislation slightly when Donald Rumsfeld said that NATO would have to move from Brussels if it remained on the books, and in general thrown about the weight of a much larger nation. Exactly how did the home of moules-frites and child rape acquire notions of such undeserved grandeur? Will this extraordinary nonnation prove to be the model for a united Europe? And how should the U.S. and its closest...See the full content of this document
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