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 ...

The question whether Flemish is a language or a dialect is as interesting, and as futile, as asking if Mancunian, Texan or Appalachian are languages or dialects of English. In the Netherlands as well ...

“We want a Flemish university.” For a century that cry has been in the hearts of the Flemish, 3,000,000 of them, three-sevenths of the popution of Belgium. By recent vote of the Belgian Parliament, ...

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 ...

Flemish artists are calling for the introduction of a fixed quota for Dutch language repertoire with the public broadcaster VRT's radio stations. By Marc Maes Flemish artists are calling for the ...

The Flemish director Stijn Coninx never doubted that “Soeur sourire,” his biopic of Belgium’s chart-topping singing nun Jeanine Deckers, could be anything other than a French-speaking film. “It had to ...

SHORTLY before the war, the eminent Dutch essayist Menno ter Braak attended an international writers’ congress in Paris. Many distinguished writers had spoken before him, and the audience was very ...

Children are being given detention for speaking French in the playground at a school in the Flemish-speaking part of Belgium. Pupils as young as seven are taken aside for an hour and given a ...

The provincial authorities in Flemish Brabant hope to encourage residents with a mother-tongue other than Dutch to learn the ...