Meetings also took place with various authorities of the French speaking and Flemish regions and communities.

For more than six months, the country has been unable to form a government that is able to unite the French speaking Walloons (32 ) and Dutch speaking Flemish (58 ).

This reform met with strong opposition from the Flemish upper and middle classes who at the time were mostly French speaking.

Belgium declared that the French , Flemish and German speaking communities and the regions of Wallonia, Flanders and Brussels Capital were also bound by its signature of the Migrants Protocol.

Belgium declared that the French , Flemish and German speaking communities and the regions of Wallonia, Flanders and Brussels Capital were also bound by its signature of the Trafficking in Persons Protocol.

For more than six months, the country has been unable to form a government that is able to unite the French speaking Walloons (32 ) and Dutch speaking Flemish (58 ). The Belgian monarch, Albert II, is desperately trying to stop his subjects from breaking up the state.

Like the Swiss People s Party, Vlaams Belang feeds on popular resentment of immigrants especially Muslim immigrants of the European Union, and, of course, of the French speaking Walloons, from whom the Flemish nationalists would like a divorce.

A linguistic reform in 1823 intended to make Dutch the official language in the Flemish provinces, since it was the language of most of the Flemish population.

Alas for them, however, the Flemish have no such desire.

Yves Camille Désiré Leterme ( born 6 October 1960) is a Flemish Belgian politician, a leader of the Christian Democratic and Flemish party (CD V), and was the 48th Prime Minister of Belgium.

Although the French speaking Belgians started the European Industrial Revolution in the nineteenth century, they are now living in a deprived rustbelt in need of federal subsidies, a substantial amount of which comes from taxes paid by the more prosperous, high tech Flemish.

Belgium stated that the French , Flemish and German speaking communities and the regions of Wallonia, Flanders and Brussels Capital were also bound by its signature of the Convention. China declared in respect of the Hong Kong SAR and the Macao SAR as follows

His Belgian colleague, Filip Dewinter, represents a Flemish nationalist party tainted by wartime collaboration with the Nazis.

Most Flemish readers don t read French language newspapers or novels, and vice versa. TV stations are separate.

Jan Baptist van Helmont ( 12 January 1580 30 December 1644) was a Flemish chemist, physiologist, and physician.

Alas for them, however, the Flemish have no such desire. Belgium, after all, became an independent state in 1830, precisely in order to liberate the Catholic Flemish, as well as the Walloons, from being second class subjects in a Protestant Dutch monarchy.

It was founded on 9 September 1980 by the Netherlands and Belgium (in respect of the Flemish Community).

Don t we feel sympathy for the Tibetans in their struggle for freedom? Why shouldn t the Flemish go their own way?

An estimated 60 of the Belgian population speaks Dutch (often referred to as Flemish), and 40 of the population speaks French.

Sami started speaking.

Vlaams Belang, the Flemish nationalist party, may not be the biggest party in Belgium, but it has done well in local elections.

Perhaps the citizens of Belgium do not have enough in common anymore, and Flemish and Walloons would be better off being divorced.

This semi independence partly reflects the absence of linguistic motives in Scottish nationalism, unlike the Quebecois of Canada or Flemish nationalism in Belgium.

James Geary, metaphorically speaking

He is speaking English.

Speaking English isn't easy.

Sami was not speaking.

I loved speaking Berber.

Moreover, he seemed genuinely committed to reconciliation between Ukraine s Russian speaking east and Ukrainian speaking west.

One reason why Flemish Belgians resent having to prop up the Walloons with their tax money is that they regard them almost as foreigners.

The changes made to the arms of the Flemish provinces as a result of this decision are not reflected in the great seal either.

With whom were you speaking?

Is speaking in English hard?

They were speaking in riddles.

Sami is having trouble speaking.

I heard them speaking Berber.

I heard them speaking Berber.

I heard her speaking Berber.

Generally speaking, savings are increasing.

Generally speaking, history repeats itself.

Generally speaking, history repeats itself.

Hello. This is Ogawa speaking.

Frankly speaking, he is wrong.

Whom are you speaking of?

Whom are you speaking of?