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European nation heads for divorce; Belgium, the country that once epitomised ethnic accommodation, appears to be disintegrating, with the French-speakers and the Flemish-speakers caught up in what looks like an unhappy marriage playing out a messy breakup, writes Alex Duval Smith.(News)
The Star (South Africa)
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September 26, 2007
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