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 ...

WEMMEL, Belgium — Most of the families living in this well-to-do community on the outskirts of Brussels are French-speaking. But the law for this region of Belgium says that all official town business ...

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 ...

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 ...

While many romantics claim that football is a universal language, the truth is that verbal communication is essential to performing at a high level on the pitch. Often at the highest professional club ...

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 ...