The Flemish members of the Patriots for Europe group have launched what they call a “superdiversity” tracker online aimed at documenting the progress of “mass migration.”
Published on October 1, the superdiversiteit.be platform is backed by the pro-Flemish independence Vlaams Belang party. It allows users to see how the percentage of people with migration backgrounds have changed within each municipality in Belgium.
The new site covers a period from 2000 to 2023.
“The consequences of the ongoing mass migration are something that people feel every day in the streets. In almost every municipality in Flanders,” Vlaams Belang chairman Tom Van Grieken told Brussels Signal regarding his party’s decision to launch the new site.
The consequences of the ongoing mass migration are something that people feel every day in the streets. In almost every municipality in Flanders.
“We want to make that feeling tangible by means of objective figures. In this way, people can easily see how big the impact of migration is on their own municipality.”
Vlaams Belang’s tracker is not the first of its kind, with similar tools being launched by other right-wing parties throughout Europe.
One such is operated by the youth wing of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ), with the online portal allowing users to see the historical data relating to immigration in the country, as well as various projections for future years.
The portal also includes a link to the youth wing’s 2022 “remigration” report, with the policy of sending back large numbers of migrants having been a key part of the FPÖ’s most recent campaign for the Austrian general election on September 29. Despite having been accused of racism by various opponents and media outlets, the party won the vote.
Questions have now been raised as to whether the FPÖ, part of the Patriots for Europe group in the European Parliament, will be able to form a coalition with the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen-aligned Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP), or whether the latter will instead try to form a grand coalition with various left-wing groups to keep the election winners out of government.
The Freedom Party scored a momentous and better-than-expected win in Austria’s September 29 elections. https://t.co/56JiCmoD1f
— Brussels Signal (@brusselssignal) September 30, 2024
