Paul Beliën (born 1959), is a Flemish Belgian journalist, author and founder of the conservative blog The Brussels Journal. Beliën is a master of law with specialisations in European and social security law from the University of Ghent and has a PhD in international studies from the University of Buckingham. He is vice president of the International Free Press Society and a senior editor at the Hudson Institute. He has written in a large number of international publications. He is an advocate of Flemish independence, free trade and is an opponent of abortion, euthanasia and gay marriage. He is a strong Americophile and has been actively opposed to immigration into Europe by Muslims. He is part of the counter-jihad movement. Beliën published a book about the political history of Belgium, and what he sees as parallels in the creation of the European Union in A Throne in Brussels. Beliën is married to Alexandra Colen, a former member of the Belgian Federal Parliament, and the political party Vlaams Belang. They have homeschooled all of their children. Career Beliën has written in several newspapers such as The Wall Street Journal, The Independent, The Washington Times, The American Conservative, The Daily Mail, The Spectator, and in Belgium 't Pallieterke, Gazet van Antwerpen, Trends and De Tijd. He was editor of the conservative magazine Nucleus. A Throne in Brussels In 2005 Beliën published A Throne in Brussels: Britain, the Saxe-Coburgs and the Belgianization of Europe. The book explains Belgian history through the life and acts of the country's six kings. Contrary to mainstream historians, Beliën depicts an artificial state, called into existence by the Belgian revolution of 1830, and led by rather ruthless kings and a corrupt political elite ever since. The book touches controversial subjects such as Leopold II's brutal colonisation of the Congo, the relation to Nazi Germany in World War II and the numerous Belgian political scandals in recent decades, including the pedophile Marc Dutroux affair. He suggests that the real father of Queen Victoria's husband Albert, Prince Consort, was King Leopold I of Belgium, Albert's maternal uncle, rather than Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, as is otherwise believed. Beliën warns that the European Union, if based on multi-ethnic Belgium as a model, will be an artificial construct without any national consciousness, prone to corruption and elitarian government. The book uses academic source citations. It was well received by