The Brussels Journal

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The Brussels Journal is a Belgian conservative blog, founded and edited by Paul Belien. It was founded in 2005, and has both an English language section with various international contributions, and a Dutch section.

Belien sums up the raison d'être of The Brussels Journal in a statement:

The Brussels Journal is a project set up by European journalists and writers to restore three values that are so lacking in the so-called “consensus-culture” of contemporary Europe: Freedom, the quest for Knowledge, and the Truth.

We defend freedom and, though we do not pretend to know the ultimate truth, we strive to acquire as much knowledge as possible by presenting facts and views that are hard to find in the “consensus-media” of Europe.

We are not an organisation; we are a coalition of individuals. Our contributors do not necessarily share every view represented in the articles of this website, but we know they all write with an earnest desire for the truth. What binds us is our defence of liberty and the conviction that the state exists to serve man and never the other way round.

Some of the most visited blog-postings of The Brussels Journal were those covering the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy. The Brussels Journal has featured contributions by Koenraad Elst, Jos Verhulst, Matthias Storme, and Daniel Hannan, among others.