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Para 2: Belgium's parliament speaker, Herman De Croo, decided to cancel a lunch rather than hosting a meal with no wine.
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Basically how that paragraph reads is that it was a unilateral move, they did not want to compromise, accept, give in or whatever word you want to use to the Irani request.
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Guests are not obliged to have alcohol, but we didn't want to bow to outside rules," the spokesman said, adding that Belgian deputies had chosen to "stick to Western customs".
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It seems one must stick to western customs when in western countries
So much for tolerance.
To add BBC seems to keep changing its articles and paragpraphs as this second paragraph i quoted right now was not in the original link.