While many romantics claim that football is a universal language, the truth is that verbal communication is essential to performing at a high level on the pitch. Often at the highest professional club ...

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 ...

Amelia Mathias, Pitt Law '11, spent her summer conducting research at the Institute for European Studies in Brussels, Belgium… In early spring, I told a close friend in Pittsburgh that I would be ...

In a political rumpus some would say could only happen in quirky Belgium, a dispute over new flight paths and noise pollution is reviving Belgium's language war just two weeks before elections. The ...

Newly crowned Miss Belgium speaks several languages — including French, English and Czech — but it seems that doesn't count for much when she doesn't speak Dutch. After she failed to answer a question ...

MEISE, Belgium — At the National Botanical Gardens, office windows are cracked, doors are broken and two greenhouses have collapsed in recent years. The reason for the decrepitude is that the gardens ...

BRUSSELS, June 8 (Reuters) - In Belgium's linguistic battle, the border of Brussels is the frontline. A clash over the electoral boundaries in and around the capital sparked the collapse of the ...

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 split. Some ...

While many romantics claim that football is a universal language, the truth is that verbal communication is essential to performing at a high level on the pitch.