One of the leaders of the Dutch parliament proposed to the French ambassador to divide Belgium. What is the "Greater Holland" plan?

With a more serious tone, the president of the Dutch parliament Martin Bosma proposed to the French ambassador that our two countries should share Belgium. "La Wallonie will be able to go to France," he suggested. So, good or bad idea? Marianne proposes to list the advantages and disadvantages of such an annexation.

The idea of creating a 'Grand Netherlands' by absorbing northern Belgium, with whom they share language, appears recurrently among the ultra-nationalist elites in the Netherlands.

The Speaker of the Lower House of the Dutch Parliament, Martin Bosma, proposed at a dinner to the French ambassador to the Netherlands, François Alabrune, to divide Belgium, the Dutch and Belgian press wrote, Le Figaro reports.

"The Netherlands wants Flanders to join them. Wallonia will be able to go to France," he told the French ambassador, François Alabrune, during a dinner, says the Dutch daily NRC, reported by RTL Info. "The ambassador and several deputies present at that time would have fallen apart from the nudes.This somewhat surrealist proposal by Martin Bosma obviously made him react, which led him to explain quickly.

Martin Bosma, a member of the Dutch far right and Speaker of the House, discussed the question of the separation of Belgium at a dinner with the French ambassador to the Netherlands.

"These are sentences spoken during a dinner heavily infused with alcohol," a high-ranking Belgian civil servant, who preferred to remain anonymous, told an RMF FM journalist in Brussels. This is a commentary on the surprising proposal of the Speaker of the House of Representatives Martin Bosma (PVV), quoted by the media, who during a dinner with the French ambassador suggested that Belgium could be divided between the Netherlands and France.