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You take that side (Photo: VsTrash/ Flickr)

Belgium: French, Flemish or both?

Resignations, calls for a split - since legislative elections in June 2007, the Belgian kingdom seems to be screeching to a Czechoslovakia-style halt. Will the poorer, southern region of Wallonia soon belong to France, as 49% of the French-speaking Belgians voted for in a recent Ipsos report?

INTERVIEW
After Czechoslovakia split, Uhl chose Slovak citizenship (Photo: Boris Svartzman/ svartzman.com)

Petr Uhl: ‘I prefer to call it the Czechoslovak spring’

He stood on the barricades of Paris and Prague in 1968 and later produced the Charter 77 civic initiative. The man who once smoked cigarettes in prison with former president Václav Havel looks back over his sixty-six years, but also to Europe and the future

by Katharina Kloss // 21/06/08

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