The Belgian Political Parties and their Approaches to European Integration

Belgium is considered to be one of the most Europhil member states of the European Union. This article presents approaches of Belgian political parties to European integration. The article questions whether there are hard or soft Euroskepticism parties, for example Flemish Block or francophone Front National, as defined by Paul Taggart and Aleks Szczerbiak, or whether these regional parties present its approaches to European integration as defined by Gary Marks, Carole Wilson and Leonard Ray. The article also debates the Nicolo Conti theory