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A similar poll taken on September 25, 2010, by La Libre Belgique showed that 40% of the Belgians were willing to return to a unitary Belgium (as the country was before the state reform of the 1970s). This percentage is to be compared with the 12% of the Belgians wanting a partition of the country and the 32% who desired a further federalization.
Several times during the period Belgium was threatened to be split up amid rising Flemish separatism. [4] The crisis broke out in the summer of 2007, following the electoral victory of the alliance of the Flemish Christian Democrats and the New Flemish Alliance, who supported a wide-reaching state reform and the immediate split of BHV. After ...
Thirty minutes into the broadcast, on demand of the media minister of the French-speaking community in Belgium, Fadila Laanan , an on-screen message identified it as fiction. The hoax was the creation of the journalist Philippe Dutilleul [ fr ] and had been prepared over a period of 2 years under the codename BBB for Bye-bye Belgium .
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Belgium: 7 September 1932 [27] Ireland has an embassy in Brussels and an honorary consulate in Antwerp. [319] Belgium has an embassy in Dublin and three honorary consulates (Cork, Galway and Limerick). [320] In 2007 King Albert II of Belgium paid a state visit to Ireland. [321] There are 1,071 Belgians living in Ireland. [202]
Spain, Ireland, Belgium and Malta want EU leaders to debate the situation in Gaza next week and jointly call for a lasting humanitarian ceasefire that would end the conflict, a letter to the ...
Northern Ireland's sectarian divisions can be traced back to the 17th Century, when Protestant settlers from Scotland and England were "planted" in the northeastern part of the island to bolster ...
A map showing the current Irish border. The repartition of Ireland has been suggested as a possible solution to the conflict in Northern Ireland.In 1922 Ireland was partitioned on county lines, and left Northern Ireland with a mixture of both unionists, who wish to remain in the United Kingdom, and nationalists, who wish to join a United Ireland.