In the 1960s, when Belgium was cut up into separate language regions - leaving only Brussels officially bilingual - French-speakers in Linkebeek and five other Flemish towns outside the capital ...

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 ...

A quick overview before we get to our main attraction- Belgium is split into two regions, Flanders and Wallonia. Wallonia is ...

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 ...

Government can impose language requirements for taking a job in public service, but what constitutes acceptable proof is too restricted and discriminates against non-Belgians.

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 ...

BRUSSELS (AP) — An Iraqi refugee and his Belgian teacher are dismayed to have been given a French lesson book with references to bomb throwers and jails, suggesting that migrants might be ...