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    • "Volledige programma van B.U.B. in PDF" (in Dutch). Archived from the original on 16 October 2007. Retrieved 6 November 2007. De Belgische Unie — Union belge (B.U.B.) is een centrumpartij, opgericht in 2002, die als einddoel heeft de creatie van een nieuw unitair België, d.w.z. met één regering en één parlement, zonder gewesten en gemeenschappen, met provinciale decentralisatie op basis van 9 provincies (wat de hereniging van Brabant inhoudt), behoud van de taalwetten en een actieve politiek van tweetaligheid.

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  • "Belgium Market background". British Council. Archived from the original on 22 November 2007. Retrieved 5 May 2007. The capital Brussels, 80–85% French-speaking... Strictly, the capital is the municipality (City of) Brussels, though the Brussels-Capital Region might be intended because of its name and also its other municipalities housing institutions typical for a capital.

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  • Flemish Academic Eric Corijn (initiator of Charta 91), at a colloquium regarding Brussels, on 5 December 2001, states that in Brussels there is 91% of the population speaking French at home, either alone or with another language, and there is about 20% speaking Dutch at home, either alone (9%) or with French (11%) – After pondering, the repartition can be estimated at between 85 and 90% French-speaking, and the remaining are Dutch-speaking, corresponding to the estimations based on languages chosen in Brussels by citizens for their official documents (ID, driving licenses, weddings, birth, death, and so on); all these statistics on language are also available at Belgian Department of Justice (for weddings, birth, death), Department of Transport (for Driving licenses), Department of Interior (for IDs), because there are no means to know precisely the proportions since Belgium has abolished 'official' linguistic censuses, thus official documents on language choices can only be estimations. For a web source on this topic, see e.g. General online sources: Janssens, Rudi

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  • "De PS spreekt oorlogstaal". De Morgen (in Dutch). 6 September 2010. Retrieved 6 September 2010. 'We moeten alle scenario's overwegen, dus ook de splitsing van het land.' Niet zonder enig gevoel voor dramatiek stelde PS-boegbeeld Laurette Onkelinx de tegenstellingen op scherp.

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  • "Flanders-Netherlands: a new Lowlands?". Expatica. Archived from the original on 22 November 2007. Retrieved 13 November 2007. Some 45% of Dutch nationals would welcome a merger between the Netherlands and the Flemish community in Belgium, according to polling agency Maurice de Hond.

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  • "The Manifesto of the Vlaams Belang". Archived from the original on 28 September 2007. Retrieved 17 October 2007. The Vlaams Belang strives for the secession of Flanders from the artificial Belgian state. Our aim is to dissolve Belgium and establish an independent Flemish state. This state will be sovereign over the Dutch-speaking territory of Belgium and will include Brussels, which is the capital of Flanders but will have a separate linguistic status.

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  • "Programme du Front National" (in French). Archived from the original on 20 November 2007. Retrieved 6 November 2007. 7. Maintenir l'unité de la Belgique dans le cadre fédéral actuel. Le Front National propose à tous les Belges une paix communautaire. Il souligne les liens culturels et historiques qui, depuis des siècles, unissent nos populations de langues germanique et romane. L'unité de la Belgique lui assure, au niveau international, un poids politique et économique que nous entendons préserver. [Transl.: 7. Maintaining the Unity of Belgium within the current federal system. The National Front offers all Belgians a community peace. It underlines the cultural and historical links which, for centuries, unify our folks of Germanic and Roman languages. The unity of Belgium provide, at international level, a political and economic weight that we intend to preserve.]

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  • "Belgians angered by political deadlock march to promote national unity". International Herald Tribune. Associated Press. 18 November 2007. Retrieved 23 November 2007. An estimated 25,000 people marched in Belgium's capital Sunday to vent their anger about a political deadlock that has prevented a government from taking office and stoked fears the nation of Dutch- and French-speakers may break apart. ... Marie-Claire Houart's petition calling for unity has been signed by 140,000 Belgians in recent weeks. It urges politicians "to stop wasting money at our expense on quarrels that interest only a small minority."

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  • "Elio Di Rupo précise sa vision du plan B". La Meuse (in French). 10 October 2010. En cas de volonté d'indépendance de la population flamande, il faudra demander aux francophones s'ils souhaitent une Belgique composée de la Wallonie et de Bruxelles, et demander leur choix aux habitants des six communes à facilités, a indiqué dimanche le président du PS Elio Di Rupo sur les plateaux de la RTBF et de RTL-TVi, répétant qu'il ne souhaitait pas ce scénario.

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  • Joëlle Milquet (12 November 2006). "Colloque du Cepess : " La Belgique à tout prix ? " [Transl: Cepess Symposium: "Belgium at all costs?"]" (PDF). Humanist Democratic Centre. Retrieved 7 December 2007. [...] nous sommes [...] contre la régionalisation de la sécurité sociale, contre toute avancée de l'autonomie fiscale et contre la régionalisation de la politique de l'emploi. Nous sommes opposés à la régionalisation de la politique de l'emploi et de la concertation sociale au niveau fédéral car elle signera la fin de notre modèle de sécurité sociale basé sur la solidarité interpersonnelle.[Transl.: We are opposed to the regionalization of the social safety net, to any progression of the fiscal autonomy and, to the regionalization of the employment policies. We are opposed to the regionalization of the employment policies and the social dialogue at the federal level for it would put an end to our social safety net model based on the interpersonal solidarity][dead link]

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  • "Les Français majoritairement pour le rattachement de la Wallonie [Transl.: A majority of the French support union of Wallonia with France]". Le journal du dimanche au quotidien. Archived from the original on 13 December 2007. Retrieved 14 November 2007. Vous personnellement, en cas d'éclatement de la Belgique, seriez-vous favorable ou pas favorable au rattachement de la Wallonie, c'est-à-dire des provinces francophones, à la France? 44%, Plutôt favorable; 18%, Plutôt pas favorable; 23%, Pas du tout favorable; 5%, Ne se prononce pas; 10%, Tout à fait favorable. Étude réalisée du 8 au 9 novembre [2007] auprès d'un échantillon de 958 personnes, représentatif de la population française âgée de 18 ans et plus. [Transl.: To you personally, in case of splitting of Belgium, would you be favourable or not favourable to the unification of Wallonia, that is to say of the [Belgian] French-speaking provinces, to France? 44% somewhat favourable; 18% Rather not favourable; 23% In no way favourable; 5% No opinion; 10% Strongly favourable. Survey conducted on 8–9 November from a sample of 958 persons, representative of the French adult population.]

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  • Edgard Baeckeland; Guy Bertrand; Willy Burgeon; Jean-Alexis D'Heur; Jules Gheude; Marc Hansen; Jean-Sébastien Jamart; Jean-Luc Lefèvre; Jean Lerusse; Michel Pieret; Jean-François Renwart (16 August 2010). "Un plan B pour Elio Di Rupo". Le Soir.
  • Olivier Mouton (12 September 2010). "Voici l'Etat Wallonie-Bruxelles…". Le Soir (in French).

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  • Jean Quatremer (15 December 2007). "L'appel à une "Belgique française" [Call for a "French Belgium"]". Libération (in French). Retrieved 20 May 2008. [...]Daniel Ducarme [...] propose [...] que les francophones créent une «Belgique française», réunissant les régions de Bruxelles et de Wallonie, qui serait «associée» à la France ! [Daniel Ducarme proposes that the francophones create a "French Belgium", unifying the regions of Brussels and Wallonia, which would be "associated" to France]
  • "Sarkozy soutient l'unité [Sarkozy supports unity]". Libération. 15 December 2007. Retrieved 17 May 2008. Nicolas Sarkozy: "La position de la France est que la Belgique ... surmonte ses difficultés. Nous ne voulons en aucun cas interférer." [The position of France is that Belgium should overcome its difficulties. We do not want to interfere under any circumstances.]
  • Laure Equy (28 November 2007). "L'inquiétude des voisins français". Libération. Retrieved 28 September 2021. Une affaire «belgo-belge», tranche Poniatowski :«On ne doit pas intervenir, c'est un État de droit.» [...] Quant à la solution, saugrenue, d'un rattachement de la Wallonie à la France en cas d'implosion, elle est vite balayée. Retour d'une «vieille tradition napoléonienne» pour l'eurodéputé Jean-Louis Bourlanges, «perspective absurde et vertigineuse», juge Moscovici. Et lâche Lazaro : «Qui est-on pour dire vous n'êtes pas bien chez vous, venez chez nous !  [An "inner Belgian" affair, said Ponitowski: "We cannot intervene, this is a state governed by law." [...] The strange solution of a union with France in case of implosion is quickly swept aside. This would be a come back of an "old Napoleonic tradition" for the MEP Jean-Louis Bourlanges, "an absurd and vertiginous perspective", declares Moscovici. Lazaro said: "Who are we to say 'you are not all-well at home, please come home to us!'?"]

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  • "Le manifeste des réformateurs" (PDF). Mouvement Réformateur. 1 September 2002. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 March 2007. Retrieved 12 March 2007. La volonté de rupture des solidarités économiques et sociales entre le Nord et le Sud du pays, l'ambition d'affaiblir Bruxelles dans sa réalité de région à part entière et de grande ville francophone, les initiatives répétées visant à mettre à néant les droits culturels et linguistiques des francophones de la périphérie de Bruxelles et des Wallons des Fourons, l'ambition de créer un État flamand qui ait de moins en moins de comptes à rendre à l'État belge, tel est le projet nationaliste de la Flandre. Seul le projet de construire l'unité de la Wallonie et de Bruxelles au sein d'une Communauté française ... permettra de rééquilibrer les rapports de force entre Communautés au sein de l'État belge. Quelles que soient les visées institutionnelles de la Flandre, l'avenir de Bruxelles et celui de la Wallonie sont indissociablement liés. À cet avenir commun, les Réformateurs associent pleinement les Francophones de la périphérie bruxelloise et les Wallons des Fourons. [Transl.: The will to break the economic and social solidarities between the North and the South of the country, the ambition to weaken Brussels as a federal state and a big French-speaking city, the repeated threats to reduce to nothing the cultural and linguistic rights of the Francophones of the suburbs of Brussels and the Walloons of Voeren, the ambition to buils a Flemish state that would have less and less obligations with respect to the Belgian state, such is Flanders' nationalist project. Sole the project to build a unity out of Brussels and Wallonia within the French Community [of Belgium] shall enable to reequilibrate the balance of forces between the Communities within the Belgian state. Whatever the institutional reforms promoted by Flanders, Brussels' and Wallonia's future are undissociably linked. To this common future, the Réformateurs plainly associate the Francophones of Brussels' periphery and the Walloons of Voeren]

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  • Hans Heckel (1 December 2007). "Was wird aus Eupen?" [What shall happen to Eupen?]. Preußische Allgemeine Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 26 September 2010.

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  • "Communiqué de presse — 26.11.2007". Parti Socialist. Retrieved 28 November 2007. Il faudra notamment répéter ensemble, entre francophones, que nous sommes opposés à toute scission de la sécurité sociale dans toutes ses branches (soins de santé, allocations familiales, etc.) Il faudra aussi répéter notre volonté d'élargir la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale afin notamment de donner un territoire qui relie directement la Wallonie à Bruxelles. [Transl:We, the Francophones, will all together have to insist on the fact that we are opposed to any regionalization of the welfare state in all of its components (healthcare, child benefit, etc.). We will also have to reiterate our will to expand the territory of the Brussels-Capital Region, in order to obtain among other things a territorial link between Walonia and Brussels.]

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  • Pierre Havaux (14 September 2010). "L'après-Belgique à l'agenda francophone" [After Belgium on the francophone agenda]. Le Vif (in French). Archived from the original on 17 September 2010. Retrieved 14 September 2010. « Même pas peur », réagit la Flandre, qui peine à prendre la menace au sérieux. Côté francophone aussi, on a de gros doutes. Comme au MR, sur la touche des négociations politiques : « Je ne crois pas à la sincérité des socialistes qui se sont exprimés de cette façon. Ils veulent faire peur aux francophones à un point tel que ce qu'ils accepteront par la suite apparaîtra comme une solution, un soulagement », décode le sénateur Richard Miller.

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  • Martin Banks (6 September 2010). "Fears over 'break up' of Belgium". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 6 September 2010. "Let's hope it doesn't come to that because if we split, it will be the weakest who will pay the heaviest price. On the other hand, we can no longer ignore that among a large part of the Flemish population, it's their wish," Miss Onkelinx told La Deniere Heure newspaper. "So yes, we have to get ready for the break-up of Belgium.

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  • Deam, Lisa. "Flemish versus Netherlandish: A Discourse of Nationalism". Renaissance Quarterly. "Quoted in Hasquirt [sic; error for "Hasquin" in bibliography] 22: 'En Belgique, il y a des partis et des provinces, et point de nation. Cornme une tente dressee pour une nuit, la monarchie nouvelle, apres nous avoir abrites contre la ternpete, disparaitra sans laisser de traces.' All English translations of French quotations are my own."

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  • Charter, David (19 November 2007). "People's power on march to save Belgium". The Times. London. Retrieved 20 May 2008. The demonstration grew out of a website petition to "Save Belgium", which attracted 140,000 signatures in three months. Although about 35,000 marched yesterday, it was still a small percentage of the 10.5 million population.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)

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  • Philippe Van Parijs (1999). "Just health care and the two solidarities" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 December 2008. Retrieved 10 September 2008. Statistical data revealed that the Walloon population had a per capita consumption of publicly funded health care significantly higher than the Flemish population. This could be attributed in part to its demographic structure (more elderly people) and to its economic situation (more unemployment). But it was also due in part to medical habits that turned out to be more expensive in Wallonia than in Flanders.. Since the publication of this book, there are other figures and the Flemish daily newspaper De Standaard wrote it in 2007 : Guy Tegenbos "Scheeftrekkingen in ziektekosten bijna weg" (Imbalance almost vanished). in De Standaard, 10 April 2007.
  • van Parijs, Philippe (4 October 2007). "Brussels after Belgium: fringe town or city state?" (PDF). The Bulletin. Retrieved 29 November 2007.

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  • Maarten Van Ginderachter. Het Kraaien van de Haan (PDF) (in Dutch). Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 March 2009. Retrieved 11 September 2009. de Waalse verbanning uit het centrum van de macht — tussen 1884 en 1902 zat er maximaal één Waal in de regering

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  • "Belgium's 'AA+' rating, stable outlook unaffected by political stalemate — Fitch". Forbes. 12 April 2007. Archived from the original on 4 June 2011. Retrieved 20 June 2008. Fitch believes while the eventual partition of Belgium has always been a possibility, it is unlikely to happen over the medium-term. It added that the most likely scenario is that hard-fought negotiation will result in constitutional changes that further decentralise the Belgian state.
  • Elizabeth Bryant (12 October 2007). "Divisions could lead to a partition in Belgium". San Francisco Chronicle. Archived from the original on 29 April 2011. Retrieved 28 May 2008.
  • Kris Deschouwer. "Ethnic structure, inequality and governance of the public sector in Belgium" (PDF). United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD). January 2004. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 June 2007. Retrieved 22 May 2007.
  • Philippe Van Parijs (1999). "Just health care and the two solidarities" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 December 2008. Retrieved 10 September 2008. Statistical data revealed that the Walloon population had a per capita consumption of publicly funded health care significantly higher than the Flemish population. This could be attributed in part to its demographic structure (more elderly people) and to its economic situation (more unemployment). But it was also due in part to medical habits that turned out to be more expensive in Wallonia than in Flanders.. Since the publication of this book, there are other figures and the Flemish daily newspaper De Standaard wrote it in 2007 : Guy Tegenbos "Scheeftrekkingen in ziektekosten bijna weg" (Imbalance almost vanished). in De Standaard, 10 April 2007.
  • Cendrowicz, Leo (30 June 2010). "No Love Lost: Is Belgium About to Break in Two?". Time. Archived from the original on 1 July 2010. Retrieved 4 July 2010.
  • "Belgium Market background". British Council. Archived from the original on 22 November 2007. Retrieved 5 May 2007. The capital Brussels, 80–85% French-speaking... Strictly, the capital is the municipality (City of) Brussels, though the Brussels-Capital Region might be intended because of its name and also its other municipalities housing institutions typical for a capital.
  • "Citizens from other countries in the German-speaking Community". The German-speaking Community. Archived from the original on 28 June 2007. Retrieved 5 May 2007.
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    *Leclerc, Jacques, membre associé du TLFQ (19 April 2006). "Belgique • België • Belgien — La Communauté germanophone de Belgique". L'aménagement linguistique dans le monde (in French). Trésor de la langue française au Québec (TLFQ), Université Laval, Quebec. Retrieved 7 May 2007.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • Rudi Janssens (January 7, 2008). "Taalgebruik in Brussel en de plaats van het Nederlands — Enkele recente bevindingen" (PDF). Brussels Studies, n°13 (in Dutch). Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 January 2009. Retrieved 16 January 2009.
  • Daniel Droixhe. "Le français en Wallonie et à Bruxelles aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles" (in French). Université Libre de Bruxelles. Archived from the original on 11 January 2008. Retrieved 10 January 2008.
  • "Als goede buren– Vlaanderen en de taalwetgeving– Taalgrens en taalgebieden". Vlaanderen.be (in Dutch). Archived from the original on 11 January 2008. Retrieved 10 July 2007.
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  • "Beginselverklaring". New Flemish Alliance (in Dutch). 13 October 2001. Archived from the original on 28 June 2007. Retrieved 28 July 2007.
  • Maarten Van Ginderachter. Het Kraaien van de Haan (PDF) (in Dutch). Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 March 2009. Retrieved 11 September 2009. de Waalse verbanning uit het centrum van de macht — tussen 1884 en 1902 zat er maximaal één Waal in de regering
  • (in Dutch) "Thuis in gescheiden werelden" — De migratoire en sociale aspecten van verfransing te Brussel in het midden van de 19e eeuw" Archived 15 October 2018 at the Wayback Machine, BTNG-RBHC, XXI, 1990, 3–4, pp. 383–412, Machteld de Metsenaere, Eerst aanwezend assistent en docent Vrije Universiteit Brussel
  • Feki, Donya (29 November 2007). "Jean Quatremer: a nation has been born—Flanders". Café Babel. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 31 March 2016.
  • "Belgien: 249 Tage ohne Regierung - ZDF heute journal - ZDFmediathek - ZDF Mediathek". Archived from the original on 20 February 2011. Retrieved 24 February 2011.
  • Marc Sirlereau (September 6, 2010). "La fin de la Belgique, le PS ose le dire" (in French). RTBF. Archived from the original on September 9, 2010. Retrieved September 6, 2010. Dans le même temps, le PS sort du bois vu la tournure des événements pour évoquer la fin possible de la Belgique. En quelques jours, les barons du parti, de Philippe Moureaux à Laurette Onkelinx, en passant par Jean-Claude Marcourt et Rudy Demotte, ont tous dit haut et fort, et très clairement que la fin du pays était possible et, surtout, que les francophones devaient s'y préparer.
  • Pierre Havaux (14 September 2010). "L'après-Belgique à l'agenda francophone" [After Belgium on the francophone agenda]. Le Vif (in French). Archived from the original on 17 September 2010. Retrieved 14 September 2010. « Même pas peur », réagit la Flandre, qui peine à prendre la menace au sérieux. Côté francophone aussi, on a de gros doutes. Comme au MR, sur la touche des négociations politiques : « Je ne crois pas à la sincérité des socialistes qui se sont exprimés de cette façon. Ils veulent faire peur aux francophones à un point tel que ce qu'ils accepteront par la suite apparaîtra comme une solution, un soulagement », décode le sénateur Richard Miller.
  • "Le manifeste des réformateurs" (PDF). Mouvement Réformateur. 1 September 2002. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 March 2007. Retrieved 12 March 2007. La volonté de rupture des solidarités économiques et sociales entre le Nord et le Sud du pays, l'ambition d'affaiblir Bruxelles dans sa réalité de région à part entière et de grande ville francophone, les initiatives répétées visant à mettre à néant les droits culturels et linguistiques des francophones de la périphérie de Bruxelles et des Wallons des Fourons, l'ambition de créer un État flamand qui ait de moins en moins de comptes à rendre à l'État belge, tel est le projet nationaliste de la Flandre. Seul le projet de construire l'unité de la Wallonie et de Bruxelles au sein d'une Communauté française ... permettra de rééquilibrer les rapports de force entre Communautés au sein de l'État belge. Quelles que soient les visées institutionnelles de la Flandre, l'avenir de Bruxelles et celui de la Wallonie sont indissociablement liés. À cet avenir commun, les Réformateurs associent pleinement les Francophones de la périphérie bruxelloise et les Wallons des Fourons. [Transl.: The will to break the economic and social solidarities between the North and the South of the country, the ambition to weaken Brussels as a federal state and a big French-speaking city, the repeated threats to reduce to nothing the cultural and linguistic rights of the Francophones of the suburbs of Brussels and the Walloons of Voeren, the ambition to buils a Flemish state that would have less and less obligations with respect to the Belgian state, such is Flanders' nationalist project. Sole the project to build a unity out of Brussels and Wallonia within the French Community [of Belgium] shall enable to reequilibrate the balance of forces between the Communities within the Belgian state. Whatever the institutional reforms promoted by Flanders, Brussels' and Wallonia's future are undissociably linked. To this common future, the Réformateurs plainly associate the Francophones of Brussels' periphery and the Walloons of Voeren]
  • "Une circonscription unique pour élire des parlementaires à l'échelle de la Belgique". Écolo. Archived from the original on 3 December 2008. Retrieved 7 December 2007. Écolo estime qu'il convient de moderniser les institutions de la Belgique, afin de renforcer le système fédéral. Écolo propose notamment l'élection d'une partie des parlementaires fédéraux sur base d'une circonscription électorale nationale.
  • "The Manifesto of the Vlaams Belang". Archived from the original on 28 September 2007. Retrieved 17 October 2007. The Vlaams Belang strives for the secession of Flanders from the artificial Belgian state. Our aim is to dissolve Belgium and establish an independent Flemish state. This state will be sovereign over the Dutch-speaking territory of Belgium and will include Brussels, which is the capital of Flanders but will have a separate linguistic status.
  • "Programma" (PDF). Lijst Dedecker. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 December 2007. Retrieved 1 December 2007.
  • "Manifesto of the Rassemblement Walonie-France (2002)". Archived from the original on 22 July 2011. Retrieved 22 October 2007. The necessary alliance of our two regions, Wallonia and Brussels, with France would ... have to be organised in line with that concept of our national identity. That would entail negotiations sanctioned by a referendum. Some form of special status may be envisaged for Brussels. As for the population of Fourons, the six Brussels outlying communes and the German-speaking communes, they would of course be consulted on their status by means of a referendum under international control.
    • "Volledige programma van B.U.B. in PDF" (in Dutch). Archived from the original on 16 October 2007. Retrieved 6 November 2007. De Belgische Unie — Union belge (B.U.B.) is een centrumpartij, opgericht in 2002, die als einddoel heeft de creatie van een nieuw unitair België, d.w.z. met één regering en één parlement, zonder gewesten en gemeenschappen, met provinciale decentralisatie op basis van 9 provincies (wat de hereniging van Brabant inhoudt), behoud van de taalwetten en een actieve politiek van tweetaligheid.
    • "Programme du Front National" (in French). Archived from the original on 20 November 2007. Retrieved 6 November 2007. 7. Maintenir l'unité de la Belgique dans le cadre fédéral actuel. Le Front National propose à tous les Belges une paix communautaire. Il souligne les liens culturels et historiques qui, depuis des siècles, unissent nos populations de langues germanique et romane. L'unité de la Belgique lui assure, au niveau international, un poids politique et économique que nous entendons préserver. [Transl.: 7. Maintaining the Unity of Belgium within the current federal system. The National Front offers all Belgians a community peace. It underlines the cultural and historical links which, for centuries, unify our folks of Germanic and Roman languages. The unity of Belgium provide, at international level, a political and economic weight that we intend to preserve.]
    • "Website of the Walloon minister Eliane Tillieux". Archived from the original on 15 May 2010. Retrieved 14 September 2009.
    • "Flanders-Netherlands: a new Lowlands?". Expatica. Archived from the original on 22 November 2007. Retrieved 13 November 2007. Some 45% of Dutch nationals would welcome a merger between the Netherlands and the Flemish community in Belgium, according to polling agency Maurice de Hond.
    • "Les Français majoritairement pour le rattachement de la Wallonie [Transl.: A majority of the French support union of Wallonia with France]". Le journal du dimanche au quotidien. Archived from the original on 13 December 2007. Retrieved 14 November 2007. Vous personnellement, en cas d'éclatement de la Belgique, seriez-vous favorable ou pas favorable au rattachement de la Wallonie, c'est-à-dire des provinces francophones, à la France? 44%, Plutôt favorable; 18%, Plutôt pas favorable; 23%, Pas du tout favorable; 5%, Ne se prononce pas; 10%, Tout à fait favorable. Étude réalisée du 8 au 9 novembre [2007] auprès d'un échantillon de 958 personnes, représentatif de la population française âgée de 18 ans et plus. [Transl.: To you personally, in case of splitting of Belgium, would you be favourable or not favourable to the unification of Wallonia, that is to say of the [Belgian] French-speaking provinces, to France? 44% somewhat favourable; 18% Rather not favourable; 23% In no way favourable; 5% No opinion; 10% Strongly favourable. Survey conducted on 8–9 November from a sample of 958 persons, representative of the French adult population.]

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