Marine Strauss
Catalan separatists seeking allies in the European Union may have to look further than the Flemish speaking enclave in Belgium, where nationalists say they are keeping their distance from Catalonia’s chaotic drive for independence.
“I don’t really believe that the Flemish people as such look at the Catalan situation as a sort of precedent, merely as an interesting case to be studied,” Joachim Pohlmann, a spokesman for the nationalist New Flemish Alliance party in Flanders, said Oct. 26 in a telephone interview as the Catalans careened toward a declaration of independence on Friday. “
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-28/belgium-s-nationalists-keep-their-distance-from-catalan-campaign
