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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 lie in a ...
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 ...
Dutch is the official language in Belgium. French-speakers often pejoratively call the Dutch language used by Flemings Flemish but it is Dutch nevertheless. The Flemish tend to use it to refer to the ...
Iraqi refugee Raad Al Azzawi shows a lesson book at the house of his Belgian French tutor in Anderlecht, Belgium on Thursday, May 11, 2017. Read Al Azzawi and his tutor are both dismayed to have been ...
The state-recognized center for the hearing impaired did add the words “negative connotation” to the two videos depicting a long nose and sidecurls. (JTA) — A Belgian government-recognized ...