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 ...

A version of this article appears in print on July 16, 2010, Section A, Page 4 of the New York edition with the headline: A Region’s Language Divide Mirrors Belgium’s.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. On a map, Belgium looks like one country but is at least two, and arguably three, divided by language ...

In Belgium there isn’t one language which is more prevalent than the others, making it linguistically diverse PLAYING A team sport such as football requires communication between the players. In ...

The Belgian government has won a vote of confidence in parliament after months of failed negotiations about language rights in an electoral district on the edge of Brussels. The dispute pits the ...

Belgium is a unique country in Europe. While most countries speak their own language, Belgium is actually divided mostly by Dutch and French (with a smidge of German thrown in for good measure ...

Despite being a relatively small country, two major languages are spoken around Belgium. French and Dutch are spoken by 99 percent of the population, whilst some small eastern areas speak German.

Belgium's newly crowned beauty queen has been drawn into the bitter political feud that has left Brussels without a government for six months after it emerged that she cannot speak the language ...

GRIMBERGEN, Belgium – GRIMBERGEN, Belgium (AP) — The KFC Strombeek soccer club is on notice not to coach in French — only Dutch. Word that youth trainers were speaking French to some of the ...