Towards a diplomatic incident between Belgium and Spain? Madrid annoyed by tweets from Defense Minister Sander Loones (N-VA)

Madrid is annoyed by the tweets of the new Minister of Defense Sander Loones (N-VA) on the Catalan question, reports the Tijd on Thursday. The dispute could turn to the diplomatic incident.

This is a series of messages posted on Twitter by Minister N-VA last weekend, about the hunger strike announced by two Catalan political figures incarcerated, which set fire to the powder. "Already locked up for over a year without being convicted.The Spanish judge does not even deal with their case.To prevent the Court of Human Rights is pronounced.Now, they are obliged to begin a hunger strike, no democrat can be silent on it, "the nationalist minister tweeted.

Remarks that have not gone unnoticed. "The Belgian minister has made statements that are inadmissible to us." A response from our side will not fail, "said Spanish Foreign Minister Josep Borrell to the Spanish newspaper El País, on the sidelines of a meeting at NATO .

Tensions between Spain and Belgium had already increased in October, when Minister Borrell had decided to withdraw diplomatic status from the representative of Flanders in Madrid after "negative" statements by the President of the Flemish Parliament, Jan Peumans ( N-VA).

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