Belgium's government collapsed Tuesday, unable to resolve an enduring divide over more self-rule for the country's Dutch and French-speakers. The gap was so wide the premier suggested the end of ...

Leaflets for the Belgian far-right party Chez Nous are distributed in the campaign for local elections.Credit...Kenzo Tribouillard/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images For a relatively small country of ...

Periodically over the centuries, the area known as the Borinage gives a twitch of excruciating pain, and all Belgium suffers. Death has always been close by in that flat, depressing southern region.

In the downtown Brussels office of the New Flemish Alliance (N-VA), Bart De Wever, the party’s leader and quite possibly Belgium’s most powerful politician, has spent the past hour trying to explain ...