I live in Den Haag and make frequent trips to Brussels. I speak both French and Nederlands and have found that when in Brussels you should speak French. The reason is that even though the city is the ...

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 ...

“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, ...