In 2011, he took part in the 'Emirdağ needs you campaign with fellow VB politician Johan Deckmyn in which he visited Emirdağ, Turkey and met with local politicians there as part of a campaign to encourage people of Turkish origin living in Ghent to emigrate back to Turkey.

This visit led to Sp.a politician Resul Tapmaz, the then Ghent alderman to make insulting statements about Vlaams Belang, after which Johan Deckmyn filed a complaint for slander and defamation.

[2][3] Veys' time in the Chamber became controversial when former classmates of his at high school, including television presenter Sven Ornelis, accused him of bullying.

[4] It also emerged that in 2000 during Veys' time in the youth-wing of Vlaams Blok he had been convicted of assault following an altercation with a student in Ghent in 2001.

[5] Veys was expelled from Vlaams Belang in 2018, with party leader Van Grieken citing his aggressive manner of communication and behaviour.