Josefina Fortea, 92, was seven when her father Jose, a farm labourer, faced a firing squad sent by General Francisco Franco.

Flemish nationalist Bart De Wever has been sworn in as the country's new prime minister following months of painstaking negotiations to form a coalition that moves the country further to the right ...

A former team-mate of Franco Colapinto has questioned the “not justified” hype that surrounds the young Argentine following his big-money move to Alpine. The Enstone team are rumoured to have ...

Photo: AFP It was another indication how times change, and bold demands for Flemish independence have made room for the hope of gradual change and finding a renewed balance between Dutch-speaking ...

Conservative Bart De Wever was sworn in Monday as Belgium's new prime minister, after striking a hard-fought coalition deal that moves the country to the right. Reached after seven months of ...

president of the New Flemish Alliance (N-VA), the separatist party he founded in 2001, the head of Belgium's federal government. On Tuesday afternoon, he was due to make a policy statement to the ...

BRUSSELS — Belgium has a new prime minister whose political purpose was long to break up the nation, gut the state structures and give ever more autonomy to his northern Flanders at the cost of ...

Swiss businessman Jean-Henri Dunant was shocked by the paralysis of local authorities after the Battle of Solferino, and then ...

Photo: BH The Boston-based vocal ensemble Blue Heron specializes in 15th-century Franco-Flemish polyphony—music of great historical importance, but rarely encountered in live performance. On Sunday ...

Eyebrows were raised when the Flemish Parliament commemorated a convicted Holocaust denier just two weeks before the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. A minute's silence was observed on ...