Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Vlaams Belang chairman Tom Van Grieken pictured during the post-election meeting of Flemish far-right party Vlaams Belang. Dirk ...
Wide open for commerce and world trade, rolling in new money, ostentatiously religious and enthusiastic about science and technology — Flanders could be called the Texas of the 16th century. Its brash ...
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 ...
Conjugal relations between Belgium’s Dutch-speaking northerners and French-speaking southerners were rocky even before they went into lockdown together. Now, for the Flemish nationalists, the testy ...
Belgium’s nationalist New Flemish Alliance is making moves to court former Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont with a place on the party’s electoral list for next year’s European election, two people ...
Actors say non-specific categories benefit men as industry still offers them more interesting roles The Flemish film and television awards are facing calls to temporarily do away with gender-neutral ...
Photographer Maxine Helfman didn’t foresee the current outcry around civil rights in America back in 2012, when she began shooting portraits in the style of the old Flemish master painters – using ...
The Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels is small in budget but big in ambition. Each year, it brings together Belgium’s Flemish and French-speaking communities while showcasing artists from around the ...
Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts never owned a Vermeer, but it has something even rarer, a painting Vermeer copied in two of his own paintings. Dirck van Baburen’s lascivious and satirical “The Procuress” ...
The question whether Flemish is a language or a dialect is as interesting, and as futile, as asking if Mancunian, Texan or Appalachian are languages or dialects of English. In the Netherlands as well ...