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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Suddenly and shockingly, Belgium came to an end. State television broke into regular programming late Wednesday with an urgent bulletin: The Dutch-speaking half of the country had declared independence and the ...Comment
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A majority of voters in both Scotland and England back the break-up of the United Kingdom, according to a poll.
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Most French don't want Turkey to join the European Union anytime soon, a poll finds.
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Belgium's far right Vlaams Blok faces a court ruling that could in effect shut the party down.
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By Julien PonthusBRUSSELS  - A French-speaking party agreed on Wednesday to join a coalition that Belgium's caretaker Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt is trying to form, and media reported an interim government could be formed by the end of this week."The prime minister has unblocked the situation," a spokesman for Verhofstadt said of the decision by the Christian Democratic party.Belgium has been without a government since an election in June.Verhofstadt was asked by King Albert to try to end the political deadlock and form an interim government. Read more
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An overwhelming majority of Latino voters believes the war in Iraq was not worth fighting, and a significant minority believes Hispanics have suffered a disproportionate share of the casualties, according to a new survey of Latino voters by The Washington Post, Univision and the Tomas Rivera Policy Institute.
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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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Broad public backing for keeping Danish troops in Iraq has waned and a majority of Danes now think the government was wrong to support the U.S.-led war, according to a new poll just 12 days before Danish elections.
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The mayor of a Flemish town in Belgium defends a ban on speaking French in schools.
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BRUSSELS -- In the back room of an exclusive social club across the street from the U.S. Embassy here, Flemish separatists are plotting the breakup of Belgium.
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"Les enfants de la patrie . . ."  BRUSSELS: The man who will probably be elected Belgium's new prime minister cut a poor figure on the country's national day on Saturday when he could not say why it was being marked and fumbled over the ... via The Mercury
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A majority of the French public is against Turkey's entry into the European Union though most are also prepared to imagine it joining at some future date, according to an opinion poll released Tuesday.
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Belgians began voting on Sunday in an election expected to replace Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt with the premier of Flanders who wants more power for his Dutch-speaking region.
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Dutch voters cast ballots in a general election with polls predicting the centre-right party of Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende will emerge with the most seats but well short of a majority.
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Bosnians elected new leaders split along ethnic lines over whether to further unify the country in a push toward European Union membership or allow Serbs to maintain their political distinctness, preliminary results showed Monday.
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A sectarian split is a risk in Iraq's Jan. 30 election.