Majority of Flemish think Belgium will split: poll
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Two-thirds of the Flemish community from the northern Dutch-speaking region of Belgium think the country will sooner or later split, a poll by Belgian daily Het Laatste Nieuws showed on Tuesday.
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Belgians reacted with shock and disbelief when a state television channel announced that the Flemish part of the country had declared independence and that Belgium was no more.
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BRUSSELS, Belgium   Divisions over how to fight global warming threatened to overshadow Thursday's summit meeting aimed at making the European Union the world leader in the battle against climate change.Comment
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OTTAWA (CP) - Prime Minister Paul Martin says he's not interested in making Canada more like Belgium, no matter what Stephen Harper thinks.
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Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt's 8-year term in office appeared set to end after voters punished his party in an election on Sunday and strongly backed the Flemish Christian Democrats, early results showed.
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Dutch voters have gone to the polls with surveys predicting yet another coalition government, with the centre-right party of Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende holding the most seats.
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Belgian voters punished the liberal-socialist government in an election on Sunday and cleared the way for Flemish premier Yves Leterme to become prime minister and pursue a devolution of power to the regions.
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BRUSSELS -- Belgian voters punished the outgoing liberal-socialist government in an election yesterday and cleared the way for Flemish leader Yves Leterme to become prime minister. Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt conceded that his eight-year term as prime minister was at an end after his liberals slid from being Flanders's strongest party to third place, with most of the results counted. ...
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The mayor of a Flemish town in Belgium defends a ban on speaking French in schools.
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About 75% of Bulgarians want their country to join the European Union according to a poll conducted by the Sociology Institute of the Bulgarian Academy of Science published Wednesday.
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GENEVA - Voters in Switzerland - where more than one in five is a foreigner - rejected proposals to liberalize tough rules on citizenship in a national referendum Sunday.    In an outcome revealing the deep divide between the country's French- and more conservative German-speaking regions, two government-backed plans failed to win support in a majority of the Alpine country's 26 cantons, or states, official results showed by early afternoon...
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Telegraph - England wants its independence The United Kingdom should be broken up and Scotland and England set free as independent nations, according to a huge number of voters on both sides of the border.Comment
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BRUSSELS -- Suddenly and shockingly, Belgium came to an end.
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Belgium's interim PM wins a vote of confidence as he seeks to end months of political paralysis.
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The risk of abstention looms large in  Sunday&#39;s parliamentary election, with many French voters saying  President Nicolas Sarkozy&#39;s conservatives will win regardless  of their vote.
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Almost two-thirds of Spaniards believe the government should go to the courts to stop a referendum on near-independence for the Basque country, according to a poll.
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DAVOS, Switzerland  - Most people in Muslim and Western countries believe divisions between them are worsening and each side believes the other disrespects their culture, according to a poll released on Monday.