euro|topics - Oscar van den Boogaard

: 1. De Standaard - Belgium | 11/03/2011

Headscarf dismissal wrong

The Dutch department store chain Hema has fired a Muslim woman in a store in Flanders after customers protested against her wearing a headscarf, sparking ... » more

: 2. De Standaard - Belgium | 08/01/2010

"Avatar" as a reflection of mankind

The movie Avatar is a box-office hit. The paradisiacal planet of Pandora lets us see our planet Earth from a new perspective, author Oscar van ... » more

: 3. De Standaard - Belgium | 04/12/2009

A minaret in every village?

The Swiss are trying to hold back time, writes the writer Oscar van den Boogaard in his column for the daily De Standaard. In his view many ... » more

: 4. De Standaard - Belgium | 18/05/2009

Bad music can achieve more than bad politics

The Eurovision Song Contest is the most successful example of European cooperation, writes author Oscar van den Boogard in the daily De Standaard, noting that ... » more

: 5. De Standaard - Belgium | 04/05/2009

The strength of the royal family is that it's real

Dutch author Oscar van den Boogaard writes that the attack against the royal family in Apeldoorn in the Netherlands on Queen's Day was a blow ... » more

: 6. De Standaard - Belgium | 30/03/2009

Climate protection: there's nothing worse than ignorance

The lights went out in thousands of cities across the world on Saturday in protest at climate change. Environmentalists spoke of a huge victory of ... » more

: 7. De Standaard - Belgium | 02/02/2009

Good cultural criticism is dying out

Belgian cultural journalists bemoan the fact that their country's media has little or no place for critical commentary. Belgian papers have little money, and worse ... » more

: 8. De Standaard - Belgium | 22/12/2008

Pink Christmas market

Amsterdam is hoping to consolidate its reputation as homosexual capital with a "pink Christmas market", including a manger with lesbian Marias and gay Josephs. Homosexual ... » more

: 9. De Standaard - Belgium | 18/08/2008

A room with a car

Luxury dwellings are being built in the Berlin district of Kreuzberg - much of whose population has a low standard of living - which for ... » more

: 10. La Libre Belgique - Belgium | 17/09/2007

Oscar van den Boogaard on a lack of national identity among Belgians

The Dutch writer Oscar van den Boogaard considers that "Belgians have too little national conscience, and even less national pride. Their natural landscape has been ... » more

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