Dave Sinardet

Dave Sinardet (Antwerp, 6 October 1975) is a Belgian political scientist, author and columnist.

His PhD thesis dealt with the role of media in the representation of Belgium's political language conflict and more generally with the question of how a public sphere functions in a federal multilingual country such as Belgium.

He is also an active participant in the Belgian public debate on federalism and nationalism in both French and Dutch languages.

He is a member of the Pavia group, a Belgian academic think tank which promotes a federal electoral district for Belgium, so that inhabitants could vote for the same parties, Flemish and French.

Sinardet is also in favour of an EU-wide electoral district for the election of part of the members of the European Parliament, as a way to reduce the EU’s democratic deficit’.