The partition of Belgium is a hypothetical situation, which has been discussed by both Belgian and international media, envisioning a split of Belgium along linguistic divisions, with the Flemish Comm
Bilingual road sign in Linkebeek, a Belgian municipality with language facilities bordering Brussels. The French words have been painted over, leaving the Dutch words only
Yves Leterme (CD&V) won the 2007 federal election after an alliance with the separatist party N-VA.
Bart De Wever (N-VA), the Flemish winner of 2010 Belgian federal elections, is separatist.
Elio Di Rupo (PS), the Walloon winner of 2010 Belgian federal elections, though opposed to a separation, proposed a Plan B to organize the partition of Belgium in case Plan A, the negotiations for forming a federal government, were to fail.
Henri Pirenne
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Henri Pirenne was a Belgian nationalist and historian. A medievalist of Walloon descent, he wrote a multivolume history of Belgium in French and became a prominent public intellectual. Pirenne made a
Henri Pirenne (c.1890)
The Maison Vivroux in Verviers where Pirenne was born in 1862
Pirenne (centre) pictured during a visit to the White House in Washington DC in 1922
View of the city of Antwerp (c. 1540)