Roughly speaking, there are about four million inhabitants in the Flemish part, and three and one half millions in the Walloon part. In the latter, French is the only usual language.

Flemish is spoken north of that line, Walloon south of it. Flemish is a dialect, or rather a group of dialects, related to Dutch, which is the literary form of the speech. Walloon is a combination of ...

Against this rising Flemish tide the Walloons have become desperate. On the battlefield of Waterloo recently leading Walloon orators significantly spoke of ties with France, just as the Flemish ...

New family allowances, to be introduced by the Flemish government for Flemish children only, will undermine the foundations of the Belgian federal state, Walloon politicians across party lines ...

Flemish parties worry that Halle could give Walloons an opening to gain influence in their region and are appealing to a special political panel to extend the Dutch-only electoral rule to the town ...

Flemish and Walloon parties had generally shared office in coalitions.....but the structure began to break down in 2007, when the parties took over 9 months to form a government.

King Albert II of Belgium has warned that over a year of political squabbling between Flemish and Walloons has threatened to break up his country and to endanger the future of the European Union.