The Belgian justice system has acted promptly to protect the freedoms of speech and assembly by issuing a decisive emergency late-night ruling in favour of the conference on National Conservativism that has been mired in controversy and disruption since it began yesterday in Brussels.
The conference, scheduled for 16 – 17 April, will now be able to meet today for its second day of talks without further interference from state authorities and the police, the Conseil d’État, the highest court in Belgium relating to issues of public administration, has ruled.
