After a night of negotiations, five Dutch- and French-speaking parties agreed to form a government.
This French-speaking city surrounded by Flanders generates wealth for all, not least because of its EU institutions.
My integration will be fine because there are a lot of French-speaking players in the dressing room.
In 1830, a revolt broke out in the French-speaking provinces of the Netherlands, against union into Belgium.
When it began, many among the French-speaking majority felt that they were bossed around by an English-speaking elite.
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Moreover, it was almost entirely about French-speaking Africa, and therefore excluded most of the people of the continent.
Following Tuesday's elections, his party no longer leads the majority French-speaking Canadian province.
French-speaking countries are to be included for the first time in this annual search for Africa's most talented journalists.
System D is a slang phrase pirated from French-speaking Africa and the Caribbean.
That led to an invitation from President Jacques Chirac to attend the recent meeting of French-speaking countries in Vietnam.
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This time, at least, Mr Arnault has picked somewhere close, and partly French-speaking.
Another is the intensely competitive nature of French education, which inevitably puts at a disadvantage children from poor, non-French-speaking backgrounds.
The French-speaking Socialist Party may be particularly incorrigible, since it consists of local baronies all but impervious to central control.
In the years that followed I met the President several times, at various events and summits of the French-speaking community.
First he alienated French-speaking Quebeckers, for whom preserving their culture is important, by sneering at artists who receive government grants.
Why it still does so is something of a mystery, given how well the French-speaking province has fared within the federation.
That is because public money is used to buy peace in Belgium, whose Dutch- and French-speaking halves increasingly loathe each other.
Mr Di Rupo will be Belgium's first French-speaking prime minister since 1974.
Since then, Belgium's French-speaking socialist party teamed up with five other parties to form a coalition government making Mr. Di Rupo prime minister.
Like the tele-evangelist Jimmy Swaggart, another of Louisiana's fallen idols, Mr Edwards was the son of sharecroppers, raised among blacks and French-speaking Cajuns.
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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Belgium is a supranational state, constructed by the European powers in 1830 and made up of two different nations, Dutch-speaking Flanders and French-speaking Wallonia.
At present they are able to vote for French-speaking candidates, but such an option would no longer be available under a proposed Flemish solution.
Although no party straddles the divide between Dutch-speaking Flanders and French-speaking Wallonia, the new coalition will include socialists and liberals as well as Christian Democrats.
This French-speaking guide arranges evenings on the town for guests, handles plans for dining, entertainment and transportation -- and will accompany them on these adventures.
As outsiders do not often understand, and perhaps should, the clash between Canada's centre and its provinces extends far beyond the status of French-speaking Quebec.
Canada's linguistic politics require equal amounts for French-speaking and English-speaking Africa.
The plan proposed by Mr Vande Lanotte would see a further decentralisation of power to Belgium's regions, split between the Dutch-speaking Flemish population and French-speaking Walloons.
His party said the Flemish and French-speaking Liberals had signed up to his reform programme, but that the French-speaking Christian Democrats had declined to do so.
Yves Leterme's initial efforts to form a coalition had foundered because he failed to persuade the French-speaking parties to accept a devolution of power to the regions.
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