THE moment the Belgian Parliament opened last November, the dangerous and complicated language question provoked a new ministerial overturn; and a crisis has been latent ever since. The November ...

The Flemish director Stijn Coninx never doubted that “Soeur sourire,” his biopic of Belgium’s chart-topping singing nun Jeanine Deckers, could be anything other than a French-speaking film. “It had to ...

In Belgium there isn’t one language which is more prevalent than the others, making it linguistically diverse PLAYING A team sport such as football requires communication between the players. In most ...

I loved the readout of the lunch that your colleague Alice Hancock had with former Belgian prime minister Alexander De Croo (“‘There’s a risk that Europe is being redrawn’”, Lunch with the FT, Life & ...

Is Flanders a Continental Ireland? Does the growing violence of the struggle between its Flemish and its French-speaking citizens spell the disruption of Belgium? The answer to these questions is ...

Foreign Correspondence NEW YORK TIMES. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s ...

“We want a Flemish university.” For a century that cry has been in the hearts of the Flemish, 3,000,000 of them, three-sevenths of the popution of Belgium. By recent vote of the Belgian Parliament, ...

Belgium may appear to outsiders as a good example of ethnic power sharing, but the last time the French-speaking Walloons supplied the country’s Prime Minister was in 1978. So, in Sunday’s national ...