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 ...

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 ...

HALLE, Belgium — Leafy Victor Mertens Street hardly looks like a front line, yet it’s on these byways that Belgians are fighting a language battle. The rivalries that used to erupt in riots in city ...

Amelia Mathias, Pitt Law '11, spent her summer conducting research at the Institute for European Studies in Brussels, Belgium… In early spring, I told a close friend in Pittsburgh that I would be ...