Belgium spent 19.8 million euros ($29 million) in subsidies on French-language audiovisual production last year, a shade higher than the 19.3 million euros ($28.3 million) in 2006, according to a ...

A couple from the French-speaking part of Belgium wanted to become naturalized French citizens but found themselves with the most French of problems – a bureaucratic struggle to prove they speak their ...

GRIMBERGEN, BelgiumGRIMBERGEN, Belgium — 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 kids triggered a ...

Keri Phillips: More on the language border later, but in 1830 when revolution created the modern Kingdom of Belgium, French became effectively the official language. And the French-speaking political ...

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 ...

In this Brussels suburb, where neat houses on twisting lanes stand a few streets away from NATO headquarters and the glassy towers of multinationals, Jean-Ren¿ Delval is packing up his home of 32 ...

A quick overview before we get to our main attraction- Belgium is split into two regions, Flanders and Wallonia. Wallonia is French-speaking, Flanders is Dutch-speaking. Both regions are very ...

The use of smartphones by students in primary and secondary schools in Belgium's French-speaking regions and the capital Brussels has been banned, local media said on Thursday. According to a decision ...

Belgium has been without a government after parliamentary elections in June failed to produce a workable coalition. The split is between Belgium's two linguistic communities: Dutch-speaking Flanders ...

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 ...