Peter de Roover complains that the Flemish majority in Belgium is not represented in the new government "Bad opera," he told me, "and bad country". Mr de Roover's serious point was that the ...

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I would like to remark that even the Belgian government considers the language spoken in Belgium as Dutch. Even the Flemish themselves consider their language in majority as Dutch. Most people ...

I am English, living in Maastricht at the border of both countries and very near Germany and hear many local accents/dialects from the Dutch province of Limburg and local Belgian accents from ...

This divide can be seen in the mother tongues of the Belgian national team's star players. Manchester City's playmaker Kevin De Bruyne is a Dutch-speaker from Ghent in the Flemish region ...