Belgian PM condemns move by local mayor to shut down radical rightwing conference as ‘unconstitutional’

The NatCon conference featuring Nigel Farage, Suella Braverman and the Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orbán, among its speakers will resume on Wednesday after a Brussels court overturned a local mayor’s decision to close it down on Tuesday.

After moves condemned as “unacceptable” and “unconstitutional” by the Belgian prime minister, Alexander De Croo, the organisers took the matter to the conseil d’état, the country’s supreme administrative court.

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