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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Brexit Party founder Nigel Farage was addressing the crowds at the Claridge venue in the Belgian capital when Brussels police arrived with an order to close down the event around 12.30 CET on Tuesday.
Two other Brussels venues, including the famous Sofitel Hotel near the EU institutions, had in recent days refused to host the NatCon conference, raising doubts over whether the event could go ahead as originally planned.
The mayor of the Etterbeek neighbourhood, Vincent de Wolf, had alerted the Sofitel Hotel hours before the event was meant to take place at the venue about the speakers and nature of the gathering, sparking a last-minute decision to break the contract.
The debacle comes less than two months ahead of the European elections, with polls predicting a sharp rise in support for hard-right and Eurosceptic parties.
His party, which supports an independent Flemish state, is topping the polls ahead of the double European and federal elections taking place in Belgium in early June.
Vandendriessche also took a jab at Belgian Prime Minister Alexander de Croo for "lecturing" other EU countries on the respect of the rule of law while in the European capital, people are not allowed to "safely organise a conference."
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