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...language issue crops up in this country," noted Vanden Boeynants sadly, "passion takes over." Language is the surface issue, but the root of the crisis goes far deeper. The Flemish bitterly resent more than a century of domination by prosperous, influential Walloons, who constituted a majority of the Belgian population until World War II. Since then, huge foreign investments in less-developed Flanders and a higher Flemish birth rate have shifted the economic and numerical balance. But most Flem ish still feel slighted in Belgian business and political and social circles, where they believe that the preferred French language gives...
PANTAGLEIZE is Michel de Ghelderode's celebration of the individual, "unfit for anything except love, friendship, and ardor," and his condemnation of our "autodisintegrated age." The APA production retains much of the excitement and magic typical of the Belgian playwright...
...resign over policy differences with them, two of the leading candidates for the top job turned it down flat, and Charles de Gaulle vetoed a third. Who, after all, wanted to tangle with the French? Finally, almost by default, the job went to a diminutive and quiet-spoken Belgian, Jean Rey, the Common Market's Commissioner for Foreign Affairs. Since Rey's chief qualification at the time seemed to be that he was the only candidate De Gaulle would accept, the Common Market partners feared that he might prove to be merely a puppet for De Gaulle...
...Federalist. Rey, 65, has been in the business of building Europe since the end of World War II. As Belgian Minister for Reconstruction, he was one of the earliest supporters of the Schuman Plan, which led to the European Coal and Steel Community. As Minister of Economic Affairs, he helped found the Common Market, becoming one of its nine original commissioners in 1958. Like most dedicated Eurocrats, he wants a Europe united politically as well as economically. But Rey has no intention of turning the Market into the French-dominated society expounded by De Gaulle. His model, rather...
...absurd to think that any rich nation can survive when most of the world is starving," a Belgian diplomat said. "No one will be safe unless we build a solid middle-class of countries...