Nova Civitas was a Flemish think tank based on the principles of classic liberalism in combination with Anglo-Saxon conservatism.
Nova Civitas claimed at its founding to be completely independent, although it was recognized and supported by the Flemish Liberal Party (VLD).
According to their website, the basic principles of Nova Civitas were: Nova Civitas was founded in 1992, in the tradition of the Belgian 1980s, Ludwig Von Mises Institute as a new political club to support the rebirth of a strong liberal movement in Belgium dominated by the VLD in Flanders and the Liberal Reformist Party in Wallonia.
Nova Civitas opposed the "socialist welfare state" and advocated further transfers of competences from the federal to the regional levels.
Nova Civitas also proposed a regrouping of political forces into what would have become a de facto two-party system, with a big centre-right/right-wing political party alliance in Flanders,[1] including VLD, Christen-Democratisch en Vlaams, New Flemish Alliance and Vlaams Belang.