Wallonia
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Belgium
We need a velvet divorce
21 June 20118De Volkskrant Amsterdam -
22 April 20112PresseuropDe Morgen
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Belgium
Belgian bullets used in Libya
24 February 2011PresseuropLe Soir -
Editorial
We are all Belgians
28 January 20115Presseurop -
24 January 2011PresseuropDe Morgen
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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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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
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.