Paul Belien

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<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.[1] Belien is married to Vlaams Belang MP Alexandra Colen.[2]

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).[3] In 2010, he was employed as 'personal assistant' by Dutch far-right MP Geert Wilders.[4]

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.[5].

Neocon Nexus

In December 2006, the Middle East Forum appointed Belien as director of Islamist Watch.[6]

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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).

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