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Czech Republic Floods: ‘First damage estimates: 20,000,000,000’
11 June 201340 9PresseuropMladá Fronta DNES -
Separatism: Keep calm and carry on
9 January 2013673 51 EUobserver.com Brussels -
2012 in cartoons: To each his own
31 December 201298 Le Vif/L’Express Brussels -
Regions: Separatism is dragging Europe back to the Middle Ages
3 December 20121172 78 24 Chasa Sofia -
Regions: Towards the exit
22 October 201248 Trouw Amsterdam -
Separatism: A symptom of the debt crisis
16 October 201253 6PresseuropLa Tribune, De Standaard, Financial Times Deutschland, Financial Times Deutschland -
Belgium: We need a velvet divorce
21 June 2011367 8 De Volkskrant Amsterdam -
Belgium: What's another year without government?
22 April 201173 2PresseuropDe Morgen -
Editorial: We are all Belgians
28 January 2011161 5Presseurop -
Belgium: Citizens desperately seeking government
24 January 2011PresseuropDe Morgen -
Belgium: Cowboys shoot down hopes for government
6 January 2011PresseuropDe Morgen -
Belgium: Make-or-break day for ungoverned country
5 January 2011PresseuropLa Dernière Heure - Les Sports -
Belgium: Political atmosphere turns sour
31 August 2010PresseuropDe Standaard -
Belgium: A government, sometime soon
16 August 20101PresseuropLa Libre Belgique -
Belgium: The Eurolab experiment gone wrong
11 June 201042 2 The Economist London -
Identity: In praise of the manifold self
19 February 2010181 2 De Standaard Brussels -
Belgium: Walloon and Flemish trains collide
16 February 20101 Le Soir Brussels -
Language: French takes leave of Belgium
22 December 200915 4 Le Monde Paris -
Language: Triple Dutch
10 September 200915 De Standaard Brussels -
Animation film : Putting Belgium back together again
22 July 2009PresseuropLe Soir -
Belgium: Flanders parliament keeps it in the family
10 July 2009PresseuropLe Soir -
Energy: Flemish government turns to green power
6 July 2009PresseuropDe Standaard -
Belgium: Food reality show makes mincemeat of elections
4 June 2009PresseuropDe Standaard -
Belgium: War of the posters
24 May 200922 Presseurop
From Scotland’s membership of the EU should it split from the UK, to handling requests for military help to put down pro-independence movements, the recent rise in European secessionist spirit poses tricky questions for the Union. EU leaders should keep their cool, argues a Greek journalist. 
Catalans, Scots, Flemish... Western Europe is succumbing in its turn to the sirens of separatism. For Bulgarian essayist Ivaylo Dichev, the new nationalists are entrenching themselves as feudal lords behind the walls of their economic prosperity, under the guise of protecting their identities. 
In 1992, Czechoslovakia separated peacefully into two countries. Today neither Czechs nor Slovaks regret the decision. Maybe it's time Belgium did the same thing, says De Volkskrant’s Central and Eastern Europe correspondent. 
Long hailed as the model for European integration, bilingual Belgium faces a divisive election that risks splitting it further at the seams. For the Economist's Charlemagne, it's a metaphor for the deepening north-south divide across the union. 
Flemish, Walloon, or Belgian? Or European, perhaps? To the writer Geert van Istendael, King Albert II’s subjects’ identity overload is not a handicap. On the contrary: it might even be an inspiration to other peoples in this changing world. 
The collision between two trains in a Brussels suburb which killed at least 18 people on 15 February has sparked a war of words between representatives of Belgium's French and Dutch speaking communities — a reflex which drives Le Soir to dispair. 
Not just in international institutions but everywhere in Brussels the French language continues to lose ground to English. As Le Monde's Belgian correspondent explains, in a country with no lingua franca, the language of Shakespeare allows speakers to avoid choosing between French and Flemish. 
People do not speak exactly the same language in The Netherlands and Flanders, though both are still variants of Dutch. But dictionaries would not distinguish between the two. At least not until Spectrum, a popular Dutch dictionary publisher, with the aid of two linguists, began treating Belgian Dutch as a separate language. 
On June 7th, Belgians will vote in the European elections, but also for their regional parliaments. In a dual campaign marked by inter-community tensions, even the language on signboards is the subject of bitter dispute.