Word: walloons
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...with the decline of heavy industry, Wallonia is in a slump while Flanders is one of Europe's richest and most dynamic regions. And many Flemish resent having to subsidize Wallonia's stagnant economy with an annual handout estimated at around $9 billion, or about $3,000 for each Walloon...
...have reached new levels of mutual incomprehension. "The north and south don't know each other any more," says Peter Vandermeersch, editor of the Flemish daily newspaper De Standaard. "Old-guard politicians would meet, if not publicly, then privately. They would play the parts of the staunch Fleming or Walloon, but they would strike a deal...
...believe that Francophones are long overdue a turn at the premiership. Their community accounts for just 40% of the country's 10.6 million population, but they believe they are in their best position for over a generation to claim the premiership, believing they have overcome negative perceptions of the Walloon community by their Flemish neighbors...
...debates can take on an ugly pettiness: Flanders puts more emphasis on traffic control, for example, so it has installed automatic speed cameras with an assiduity that the more relaxed Walloons haven't matched. Some Flemings fume over the fact that the resulting revenue from speeding tickets is shared with their Walloon neighbors...
...passenger and provided money for training and marketing. Though few visitors linger long before flying elsewhere or taking the 46-km bus trip north to Brussels, the Ryanair traffic created 1,800 jobs and breathed €40 million a year into the local economy, according to the Walloon regional government that owns the airport. But a European Commission ruling could clip Ryanair's wings and bring Charleroi's renaissance to an abrupt end. Discounts of the kind offered to Ryanair are an industry commonplace that have helped the €3.6 billion European discount-airline business...