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Is someone forbidding you to gather ?

Were you not able to vote on the party you wanted ?

I am in fact also very suspicious about the motivations behind the lawsuit against Vlaams Blok, but it has had no influence on the popularity, the ability to publish, the ability to organize gatherings, or the ability to participate in local government of Vlaams Blok / Belang.

And I don't know what podcast you're referring to, but if someone was using the Internet to go around political advertising laws, I'm glad they got fined.

I know Vlaams Belang thrives on persecution complexes

I think you'll find that the labels are the ones that have set the regional limits and pricing standards. Apple is bound by the contracts the labels were willing to negotiate, and the labels didn't want to negotiate liberal contracts when the iTunes stores were first being set up.

The coverage by the Belgian/Flemish national news service says indeed that the price differences are reportedly required by the labels, and that (according to the Financial Times) the probe specifically targets EMI, Sony and Warner, who have two months to formulate an answer. And if the Commission doesn't like their answer, it reserves the right to confiscate 10% of the labels' revenue (from Internet sales, presumably). It doesn't say anything about sanctions against Apple.

FYI, vrtnieuws.net also has an English section. Here's the article: Google sentenced in Belgian court.

Just to clarify, the Flemish speaking region (Flanders)that vrt servers (it's actually the state broadcaster) is in Belgium, so I don't see the confusion caused by calling it a Belgian news service, unless you doubt the existence of Belgium (and let's not get in to that here).

I initially thought it might've been misleading as to identify vrtnieuws as the newssite having filed the lawsuit, because it's the only "Belgian newssite" linked. But I've read too quickly over the summary to see it was never implied.

The problem was that the newssite of French and German speaking Belgium had articles indexed by google (I believe it's about Le Soir), and that didn't pose any problem.

They changed the way the articles were accessible and made a "pay to view"-service, yet google had cached the newsarticles offering them "for free" (as the previously were offered publicly for free)

The problem for them was in how Google had a cache of something that wasn't free anymore, violating their copyright.

The link to the article on vrtnieuws as a Belgian newssite is misleading as vrtnieuws is a Flemish (Dutch speaking) newssite. In the audio fragment the interviewer wonders wherever it's not "good publicity" to have google link to your content and the specialist agrees with that how newssites "like" that, but explains the articles didn't link back to the website to the updated or removed content which posed the problem: their content being cached, freely accessable when they charged for it, and no link back to their webpage.

Jurgen Verstrepen WAS a talkshow host. His show was broadcasted on television AND radio at the same time. Saying that it was an obscure show is a big lie because all major politicians were among his guests. He worked both for public and commercial television.

And about being the biggest party: here are the results of the latest poll as reported by the public television network:
http://www.vrtnieuws.net/nieuwsnet_master/versie2/ nieuws/details/050926peilingLN/index.shtml
I will translate literally what they say: "Vlaams Belang remains the biggest party".

Stop spreading lies, please.