The problem has its roots in the sensitive area around Brussels where the French-speaking Walloons and the Dutch-speaking Flemings live side by side.
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It is fashionable to say around Brussels that the latest round of talks in Cyprus mark the last chance for a settlement in years.
Replicas of him, once mainly sold around Brussels as corkscrews and in snow globes, are now also cast in colorful chocolate and as lollipops.
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In the meantime, we've got NATO, as we speak, consulting in Brussels around a wide range of potential options, including potential military options, in response to the violence that continues to take place inside of Libya.
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The Flemish population has been seeking more control over tax policy while Walloons want greater protection and more money for the region around the capital, Brussels.
When no-one turned up, he was left to wander around the station in Brussels for more than an hour before he finally found his way out.
Brussels has got around such trifles as negative opinion polls and even lost referendums: witness the unwanted EU constitution, now cross-dressed as the somewhat-less-awful Lisbon treaty.
He and the 26 other EU leaders left the Brussels negotiating table at around 12.30 in the morning and were only called back about six hours later.
From there he joined the Foreign Office, and made a distinguished contribution in posts held in Washington, DC, The Hague, Cairo (where he was involved in property negotiations arising from the Suez crisis), Tunis, Brussels and Vientiane (around the time of Saigon's fall to the North Vietnamese).
And she's learned to work around some tastes: She will roast Brussels sprouts, for example, and sprinkle sugar on them to make them palatable.
My small group of journalists were flown from Brussels to Poland and then around the country on one of the smaller planes in the Polish government VIP fleet, a Soviet-built Yak 40.
In Brussels, Belgian police recently increased security around NATO facilities and officials, but U.S. officials say they are unaware of any specific and credible threat there.
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Then it takes the valued goods to the Brussels airport to be flown to diamond centers around the world.
Let me say first at the top, the Prime Minister just came from Brussels, where he was part of the negotiations around the eurozone crisis.
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Alongside the training mission in Mali and significant EU contributions to United Nations missions, Brussels deploys a training and antipiracy mission in and around Somalia, a monitoring mission in Georgia and police operations in Kosovo, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Afghanistan.
Mr Cameron has to turn around several times first - not least winning the General Election and then successfully negotiating something meaningful with Brussels.
He emphasised too that the real decision for MPs would come - in around a year's time - when it came to ratifying any deal the government reaches in Brussels.
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