Regions: Europe - Flanders finds its feet.(Company overview)

Foreign Direct Investment | October 1, 2009 | Copyright

Byline: Tom Blass

Belgium is small but perfectly complicated; aside from Brussels, it consists of a French-speaking region (Wallonia) and a Flemish-speaking region (Flanders), and a capital which, doubling as the capital of the European Community, is so polyglot that it does not fit neatly and without argument into one region or the other. There are lots of issues to discuss around the constitution and future of Belgium, but in the meantime, the respective governments of Flanders and Wallonia are content to get on with the job at hand: building competitive economies ...

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