Frans Baert
Frans Baert (Grembergen, 25 november 1925) is dutch-speaking belgian flemish lawyer and philosopher, former member of the Volksunie party, before joining the Sociaal-Liberale Partij.
Frans Baert's doctrine
Frans Baert is the founder of a methodology, known in dutch as Bartdoctrine; regarding Flemish independentism.
This doctrine[1], taken by some flemish politicians, is a step-by-step strategy in order to get an independent Flemish State through democratic reforms of Belgium.
Each reforms must follow three basic rules in order to reach a Flemish independence at the end:
- Each reform must be a significant step towards greater autonomy.
- Each reform should not prevent further reforms.
- Inside each reforms, the price paid to the other negociator sould not be unreasonable.
References
- ^ RTBF, Interview of Frans Baert by C. Deborsu in "Questions a la une" du 1/9/2010: http://www.rtbf.be/video/v_questions-a-la-une?id=430551&category=info