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| News 07/30/2008 |
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Half of Walloons Want to Join France
49% of Walloons want to see their region join France if Belgium should cease to exist. That is at least 20% more than a similar survey of less than a year ago showed, the Flemish newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws reported (30 July 2008). Furthermore: 60% of the French want to see the Walloons do this, as polls by the Brussels newspaper Le Soir and the Northern Fran... | more |
| A column by Karim Van Overmeire |
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JOIN THE FRIENDS OF FLEMISH INDEPENDENCE
The international community receives its information about Flanders and our struggle for Flemish independence from secondhand sources and often from our Francophone adversaries in the Belgian establishment. Yet Flanders is strongly oriented towards other countries and cultures. The Flemings are amongst the world’s best polyglots, able to converse with English, French, German and sometimes even Spanish and Italian visitors in their own language. No other region in the world exports so much per capita. Flanders’ subsidisation of Wallonia is proportionally greater than the financial support given...
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| News 07/17/2008 |
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[Press Review]: More Than a Grain of Truth
"... there are longer-term explanations for the divisions in Belgian political and civic life. Flanders has steadily pulled away from Wallonia in prosperity over the past 50 years and the Flemish resent paying taxes to subsidise the poorer south. “The money has not helped the Walloons but turned them into welfare addicts,” declared a recent editorial in The Flemish Republic... | more |
| News 06/26/2008 |
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[Press Review]: Political Crisis in Belgium Deepens
"Both Flemings and Walloons are now preparing for the post-Belgium age. Since Brussels is geographically an enclave within Flanders, Walloon politicians are demanding a territorial corridor linking Brussels to Wallonia so as to ensure that, if Belgium falls apart, Brussels and Wallonia can form a connected “Wallobrux” union. The corridor, a piece of land 2.5 kms wide, stretches... | more |
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