THE moment the Belgian Parliament opened last November, the dangerous and complicated language question provoked a new ministerial overturn; and a crisis has been latent ever since. The November ...

You probably don’t realize it, but we are living in an unprecedented historical moment. For the first time, Belgium has managed to be interesting without getting invaded by Germany or abusing an ...

HALLE, Belgium — Leafy Victor Mertens Street hardly looks like a front line, yet it’s on these byways that Belgians are fighting a language battle. The rivalries that used to erupt in riots in city ...

At the National Botanical Gardens, office windows are cracked, doors are broken and two greenhouses have collapsed in recent years. The reason for the decrepitude is that the gardens lie in a ...

BELGIUM head into the 2022 World Cup as one of the dark horses to go far in the tournament. Roberto Martinez’s side are blessed with a talented group of young stars – and many are tipping them to ...

Belgium has been without a government after parliamentary elections in June failed to produce a workable coalition. The split is between Belgium's two linguistic communities: Dutch-speaking Flanders ...

Dutch is the official language in Belgium. French-speakers often pejoratively call the Dutch language used by Flemings Flemish but it is Dutch nevertheless. The Flemish tend to use it to refer to the ...

In Belgium there isn’t one language which is more prevalent than the others, making it linguistically diverse PLAYING A team sport such as football requires communication between the players. In most ...