That EU thing really isn't working out for France. No clout. No charisma. No constitution.
And now this. [Pause.] Now jeers from Flanders about France and her cultural spawn. Jeers! From the Manneken Pis!
BELGIUM 'AN ACCIDENT OF HISTORY WITH FOOTBALL AND BEER'
BRUSSELS August 19, 2006 (Telegraph) - The political leader of Flanders, the Dutch-speaking half of Belgium, has caused outrage by saying that the 175-year-old Belgian nation was an "accident of history" with "no intrinsic value".Years of devolution had eroded the kingdom to the point where it now amounted to nothing more than the "king, the national football team and certain brands of beer", said Yves Leterme, the Flemish region's premier.
Adding personal insult to political injury, he accused French speakers living in Flanders of "lacking the mental capacity to learn Dutch". He scorned the official notion that Belgium was a bilingual nation, saying: "Look at the difficulties Francophone leaders, and even the king of this country, have in speaking fluent Dutch."
Mr Leterme's hard-line stance reflects the growing sense among voters in Flanders, the richer and larger half of Belgium, that they subsidise ungrateful French compatriots in the south and the time to sever the last remaining ties may be near.
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Mr. Leterme is not the only one looking to cut loose from the Francophone Wallons. The semi-autonomous German-speaking community [Deutschsprachigen Gemeinschaft or DG] of the Ost-Kantone want out. Ministerpräsident Karl-Heinz Lambertz is seeking full regional autonomy from Wallonie/n. Les Boches ! Again threatening the order of Europe. France faints away.
France, the Rodney Dangerfield of Europe.
PFFT (What is this?): French mooch 3 | Hoe zeg je dat is Nederlands? 3 | Rayonnement français 0
i wonder why the fact that hispano americans speaks spanish, cino americans speaks chineese, irish speaks english (oops for the last one ^^).. doen't make you feel as on the decline ?
try to find something else ;)
the wallons flanders are well known to hate each other... and this is from the beginning
maybe as much as you hate us ^^
