Flemish separatists have once again emerged as the largest force in Belgian politics following national parliamentary elections on Sunday, with over 95% of votes counted. The conservative New Flemish ...

A representative of Flemish Jews asked a deputy prime minister of Belgium to clarify statements in which he appeared to condone the actions of Nazi collaborators. ANTWERP, Belgium (JTA) — A ...

Is Flanders a Continental Ireland? Does the growing violence of the struggle between its Flemish and its French-speaking citizens spell the disruption of Belgium? The answer to these questions is ...

Belgium’s gaffe-happy former Prime Minister Yves Leterme once famously said that the only things all Belgians have in common are “the King, the football team, some beers.” Say what you will about the ...

Though militant students have often shaken governments, particularly in the world’s less stable areas, they have seldom actually brought them down. Yet last week, in stable, bourgeois Belgium, the ...

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 ...

Vooruit's chairwoman Melissa Depraetere and Vlaams Belang chairman Tom Van Grieken pictured during the election broadcast of VRT Flemish television, in Brussels. Dirk Waem/Belga/dpa Flemish ...

Roughly speaking, there are about four million inhabitants in the Flemish part, and three and one half millions in the Walloon part. In the latter, French is the only usual language. But Flanders is ...