Nova Civitas

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Nova Civitas was a

Flemish Liberal Party (VLD). The Founding Chairman of Nova Civitas, Boudewijn Bouckaert
, was a long-time board member of the VLD.

According to their website, the basic principles of Nova Civitas were:

  • that freedom is linked to responsibility;
  • that the family must be revalorized as a cornerstone of a free society;
  • that the economy should be de-feodalized, and the free entrepreneurship should be protected;
  • that the rule of law must be upheld.
    — Nova Civitas website

Nova Civitas was founded in 1992, in the tradition of the Belgian 1980s,

Ludwig Von Mises Institute as a new political club to support the rebirth of a strong liberal movement in Belgium dominated by the VLD in Flanders and the Liberal Reformist Party in Wallonia. Nova Civitas was headquartered in Ghent. In 2004, a new regional committee was created in Antwerp, followed in 2006 by one in Brussels
.

Nova Civitas opposed the "socialist welfare state" and advocated further transfers of competences from the federal to the regional levels. Nova Civitas also proposed a regrouping of political forces into what would have become a de facto two-party system, with a big centre-right/right-wing political party alliance in Flanders,

Senators Hugo Coveliers and Jean-Marie Dedecker were even forced to leave the party in the ensuing turmoil.[2]

In 2007, Nova Civitas member Jean-Marie Dedecker started his own political party, the eponymous

Libertarian, Direct, Democratic
) and established a new think tank, Cassandra, to serve as the ideological laboratory for his party.

From 2003 to 2009, Nova Civitas granted an annual award: Liberty Prize.[3]

In 2009, both Cassandra and Nova Civitas fell victim of internal disputes, and decided to disband themselves. A new classical liberal think tank, Libera!, replaced Nova Civitas.[4] Libera! grants the annual Prize for Liberty.[5][3]

Prize for Liberty

From 2003 to 2009, Nova Civitas granted the annual Prize for Liberty.[6] Each laureate was expected to provide a Gustave de Molinari-lecture. Since the 2009, the Liberty Prize was continued by Libera!.[6]

Awards by Libera!:

See also

References

  1. ISBN 9789038209920
    .
  2. ^ "Nova Civitas haalt zwaar uit naar VLD-top na afzetting Coveliers". Het Belang van Limburg. Belga. 15 December 2003.
  3. ^ a b Cochez, Tom; Walraven, Jan (22 May 2019). "Klimaatontkenners in Vlaanderen: het netwerk ontrafeld". Apache.
  4. ^ Peuteman, Ann (15 February 2010). "Boudewijn Bouckaert start nieuwe liberale denktank op". Knack.
  5. ^ Cochez, Tom (18 May 2011). "Het gouden koekoeksei van Theodore Dalrymple". Apache.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g "Jean-Marie Dedecker krijgt Prijs voor de Vrijheid". Het Nieuwsblad. Belga.
  7. ^ a b c d e f "Urbanus krijgt Prijs van de Vrijheid van Nova civitas". Het Nieuwsblad. Belga. 16 December 2007.
  8. ^ "Geluksprofessor Lieven Annemans krijgt Prijs voor de Vrijheid". Knack. Belga. 26 May 2021. Retrieved 1 June 2021.

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