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Civil, 16 May 2008 Leopold Scholtz EVERY Sunday at noon there is a program on Dutch television with the name Buitenhof (Course). The format is that four experts on a policy area are invited, who is an overarching theme to exchange views and sometimes sharp debate. Last Sunday was the subject cartoon network the disintegration of Belgium and the possible consequences for the relations between cartoon network the Netherlands and Flanders. The participants were the renowned philosopher Etienne Vermeersch Flemish; A famous Dutch-Belgian journalist (with several books on the Netherlands and Belgium to his credit), Derk Jan Eppink-; A socialist Flemish parliament, Maya Detiège; and a Christian Democrat Dutch MEP Jan Schinkelshoek. Together they conclusions that came my own observations since my arrival in Brussels almost four months ago confirmed. It is that Belgium is threatening to fall apart. And here is an opportunity for African. In its details, the situation is extremely complicated and almost impossible to explain to an outsider. In its essence, it is absurdly simple: the Dutch-speaking Flemish and the French-speaking Walloons, the two main population groups in the country, are increasingly dislike for each other and find it increasingly difficult to live in a state mortgage. One of the interesting byverskynsels of the Cold War was that he was the natural course of history, as it were froze. The USSR's dictatorial domination of Eastern Europe and the common fear of that superpower in the West, the normal rapids, as normally occurs in history, prevented. When the Berlin Wall fell, the tension was already high enough to cause a series of tectonic landslides on the international political scene. It has the disintegration of the USSR, Czechoslovakia cartoon network and Yugoslavia means, as well as the peaceful expansion of the European cartoon network Union and NATO to Central and Eastern Europe. The recent secession of Kosovo from Serbia was the last step in this process. cartoon network The underlying tension was the worst in Central and Eastern Europe, and it is also there that the largest earthquakes were felt. But now the political crust also moved into Western Europe, and Belgium may be the logical first victim. The country is now many months in a political crisis caught the essence of a tough power struggle between the Flemish and the Walloons are. A Crystal I certainly do not, but it's interesting that a consensus - at least at Flemish side - to the form that Belgium at opgeskrewe dead and that Flanders in the foreseeable cartoon network future cartoon network will be independent. The one big problem of course Brussels, a largely French-speaking city that an enclave in Flemish territory form. The participants in the program, it was agreed that this does not necessarily mean that Flanders and the Netherlands will not merge. For that, the differences after 350 years of political separation is likely to be large. The common cartoon network language is a band, but it also applies to the British and Americans or Germans and Austrians, and they remain separate states. Moreover, the Dutch always somewhat derisively at their suiderbure, which means that the Flemish do not want to give up their independence for a junior partner in becoming a bigger cartoon network Netherlands. What can be expected is that Flanders and the Netherlands in the political, economic and cultural spheres will be working much more closely, and also to the defense of Dutch against the onslaught of English in EU and international context. A development, which should be read together, the growing interest in South Africa and Afrikaans. Not so much in the general population (for the common people, South Africa is little more than an exotic holiday destination), but especially by the politicians and the intellectual elite. And this applies not only to the Flemings, who has a man with their own language struggle can expect greater understanding of the African cause, no. The Netherlands also has a familiar ring - not dramatic, but still - to observe. For the first time in the history complicates the Dutch and Flemish authorities themselves with the decline of Afrikaans in South Africa. In September, the two together present a conference on Dutch in Pretoria. It's hard to overstate the importance cartoon network of this turnaround. This means that African, cartoon network now that he is freed from the millstone of apartheid internationally in a positive way to be noticed. It hides a great opportunity for African, provided that the language can market itself inclusive and non-racial. The time has come to internationalize the language struggle. We are going to let the opportunity go by? The author is Media24's representative in Brussels.
News Speeches: Dr. Danie Langner Sakie November 19 AFRICAN AS
Civil, 16 May 2008 Leopold Scholtz EVERY Sunday at noon there is a program on Dutch television with the name Buitenhof (Course). The format is that four experts on a policy area are invited, who is an overarching theme to exchange views and sometimes sharp debate. Last Sunday was the subject cartoon network the disintegration of Belgium and the possible consequences for the relations between cartoon network the Netherlands and Flanders. The participants were the renowned philosopher Etienne Vermeersch Flemish; A famous Dutch-Belgian journalist (with several books on the Netherlands and Belgium to his credit), Derk Jan Eppink-; A socialist Flemish parliament, Maya Detiège; and a Christian Democrat Dutch MEP Jan Schinkelshoek. Together they conclusions that came my own observations since my arrival in Brussels almost four months ago confirmed. It is that Belgium is threatening to fall apart. And here is an opportunity for African. In its details, the situation is extremely complicated and almost impossible to explain to an outsider. In its essence, it is absurdly simple: the Dutch-speaking Flemish and the French-speaking Walloons, the two main population groups in the country, are increasingly dislike for each other and find it increasingly difficult to live in a state mortgage. One of the interesting byverskynsels of the Cold War was that he was the natural course of history, as it were froze. The USSR's dictatorial domination of Eastern Europe and the common fear of that superpower in the West, the normal rapids, as normally occurs in history, prevented. When the Berlin Wall fell, the tension was already high enough to cause a series of tectonic landslides on the international political scene. It has the disintegration of the USSR, Czechoslovakia cartoon network and Yugoslavia means, as well as the peaceful expansion of the European cartoon network Union and NATO to Central and Eastern Europe. The recent secession of Kosovo from Serbia was the last step in this process. cartoon network The underlying tension was the worst in Central and Eastern Europe, and it is also there that the largest earthquakes were felt. But now the political crust also moved into Western Europe, and Belgium may be the logical first victim. The country is now many months in a political crisis caught the essence of a tough power struggle between the Flemish and the Walloons are. A Crystal I certainly do not, but it's interesting that a consensus - at least at Flemish side - to the form that Belgium at opgeskrewe dead and that Flanders in the foreseeable cartoon network future cartoon network will be independent. The one big problem of course Brussels, a largely French-speaking city that an enclave in Flemish territory form. The participants in the program, it was agreed that this does not necessarily mean that Flanders and the Netherlands will not merge. For that, the differences after 350 years of political separation is likely to be large. The common cartoon network language is a band, but it also applies to the British and Americans or Germans and Austrians, and they remain separate states. Moreover, the Dutch always somewhat derisively at their suiderbure, which means that the Flemish do not want to give up their independence for a junior partner in becoming a bigger cartoon network Netherlands. What can be expected is that Flanders and the Netherlands in the political, economic and cultural spheres will be working much more closely, and also to the defense of Dutch against the onslaught of English in EU and international context. A development, which should be read together, the growing interest in South Africa and Afrikaans. Not so much in the general population (for the common people, South Africa is little more than an exotic holiday destination), but especially by the politicians and the intellectual elite. And this applies not only to the Flemings, who has a man with their own language struggle can expect greater understanding of the African cause, no. The Netherlands also has a familiar ring - not dramatic, but still - to observe. For the first time in the history complicates the Dutch and Flemish authorities themselves with the decline of Afrikaans in South Africa. In September, the two together present a conference on Dutch in Pretoria. It's hard to overstate the importance cartoon network of this turnaround. This means that African, cartoon network now that he is freed from the millstone of apartheid internationally in a positive way to be noticed. It hides a great opportunity for African, provided that the language can market itself inclusive and non-racial. The time has come to internationalize the language struggle. We are going to let the opportunity go by? The author is Media24's representative in Brussels.
News Speeches: Dr. Danie Langner Sakie November 19 AFRICAN AS
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