Flanders
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Belgium
We need a velvet divorce
21 June 20118De Volkskrant Amsterdam -
22 April 20112PresseuropDe Morgen
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Editorial
We are all Belgians
28 January 20115Presseurop -
24 January 2011PresseuropDe Morgen
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6 January 2011PresseuropDe Morgen
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5 January 2011PresseuropLa Dernière Heure - Les Sports
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Belgium
Political atmosphere turns sour
31 August 2010PresseuropDe Standaard -
Belgium
A government, sometime soon
16 August 20101PresseuropLa Libre Belgique -
11 June 20102The Economist London
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Identity
In praise of the manifold self
19 February 20102De Standaard Brussels -
16 February 20101Le Soir Brussels
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Language
French takes leave of Belgium
22 December 20094Le Monde Paris -
Language
Triple Dutch
10 September 2009De Standaard Brussels -
Animation film
Putting Belgium back together again
22 July 2009PresseuropLe Soir -
10 July 2009PresseuropLe Soir
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6 July 2009PresseuropDe Standaard
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4 June 2009PresseuropDe Standaard
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Belgium
War of the posters
24 May 200922Presseurop
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.