Paul Belien

<youtube size="tiny" align="right" caption="Richard Miniter of Pajamas Media interviews Paul Belien">zmMUhHSUmUo</youtube>Paul Belien is the founder and editor of The Brussels Journal blog. He worked as a professional journalist in both Belgium and the Netherlands. In 1994 he founded the Brussels-based think tank Centre for the New Europe (CNE). His articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, The Spectator, The Independent and elsewhere. Belien is married to Vlaams Belang MP Alexandra Colen.

He is also an adjunct fellow at the Hudson Institute. He holds a degree in law with specialization in social security law and European law (University of Ghent, Belgium) and a doctorate in international studies (University of Buckingham, UK).

Eurabia

Belien promoted Bat Ye'or's "Eurabia" thesis by providing leading proponents like Fjordman -- one of the inspirations for Norwegian far-right terrorist Anders Behring Breivik -- a platform on his Brussels Journal..

Neocon Nexus

In December 2006, the Middle East Forum appointed Belien as director of Islamist Watch.

Affiliations

• Centre for the New Europe
• Hudson Institute
• Middle East Forum
• CounterJihad Europa
• Islamist Watch
• International Free Press Society

Connections

• Alexandra Colen

External Resources

• Paul Belien - Wikipedia page
• Paul Belien - Hudson Institute page

Publications

• A Throne in Brussels: Britain, the Saxe-Coburgs, and the Belgianisation of Europe (Imprint Academic, 2005)
• Visions of Europe, coauthored with Lady Thatcher, et al. (Duckworth, 1994)
• Consumer-Driven Health Care, coauthored with Regina Herzlinger, et al. (Jossey-Bass, 2004).