“We want a Flemish university.” For a century that cry has been in the hearts of the Flemish, 3,000,000 of them, three-sevenths of the popution of Belgium. By recent vote of the Belgian Parliament, ...

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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 ...

SHORTLY before the war, the eminent Dutch essayist Menno ter Braak attended an international writers’ congress in Paris. Many distinguished writers had spoken before him, and the audience was very ...

Most people here have very sensible things to say, but I would like to add one more thing. I am Flemish, and during my training as an interpreter, I was taught to use 'standard' Dutch in the booth.

BRUSSELS — A university in Belgium has refused demands to “immediately” strip its website of Flemish sign-language videos displaying stereotypical and anti-Semitic symbols for Jews, saying it was ...

Flemish artists are calling for the introduction of a fixed quota for Dutch language repertoire with the public broadcaster VRT's radio stations. By Marc Maes Flemish artists are calling for the ...

Flemish is the language I have spoken for 54 years. I work as an interpreter in English courts and am often called upon to interpret at interviews for the police. I have also been asked to check tapes ...

A new meeting place for young Flemings in Brussels has just opened in Dansaertstraat in the City of Brussels. Atelier TKT, ...

PARIS — FremantleMedia Belgium is set to co-produce the Flemish-language adaptation of “Wentworth,” the popular Australian prison drama, for Vier, a Flemish commercial network. Co-produced by ...