All this is unlikely to change any time soon, because Belgium is forbidden from performing a language-based census. Numbers are all out of date and hardly representative of the actual population in a ...

Belgium Bickering Over French and Dutch, Its Dual Languages By Raf Casert Feb. 20, 2005 12 AM PT Associated Press Writer ...

Belgium will sharply increase the fee for naturalization from €150 to €1,000, as part of a sweeping reform aimed at tightening access to citizenship, federal authorities announced. The hike ...

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 ...

If William did nothing to combat the popular prestige of French in Belgium, he nevertheless insisted that the official language in Flanders and at Brussels should be Dutch, and therefore Flemish.

BRUSSELS — In March, the first meeting took place in a new effort to coordinate Belgium’s public support for film production. In a nation addicted to divisions, the response was typically ...