Wallonia
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Belgium: Wallonia on the way to renaissance
17 January 201320213 De Volkskrant Amsterdam -
Belgium: We need a velvet divorce
21 June 20113678 De Volkskrant Amsterdam -
Belgium: What's another year without government?
22 April 2011732PresseuropDe Morgen -
Belgium: Belgian bullets used in Libya
24 February 2011PresseuropLe Soir -
Editorial: We are all Belgians
28 January 20111615Presseurop -
Belgium: Citizens desperately seeking government
24 January 2011PresseuropDe Morgen -
Identity: In praise of the manifold self
19 February 20101812 De Standaard Brussels -
Belgium: Walloon and Flemish trains collide
16 February 20101 Le Soir Brussels -
University: Austria, low-cost Mecca for German students
15 October 2009PresseuropSüddeutsche Zeitung -
Belgium-Libya: Socialists facilitate Tripoli arms deal
9 October 2009PresseuropLe Soir -
History: New York forgets its Walloons
13 August 2009PresseuropTrouw -
Animation film : Putting Belgium back together again
22 July 2009PresseuropLe Soir
For a long time, Wallonia was considered the poor half of Belgium, reliant on aid from rich Flanders. Today, the Walloon economy is back on its feet and the Walloons want to seize their destiny and address the pressure from Flemish separatists. 
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. 
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.