Ross Miller
- Location: London Road, Dover
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For much of its recent history Belgium has consisted of 2 regions. Flanders & Walloonia, during the 80s a third region was created, Brussels Region. These regions are based on language Flemish (a dialect of Dutch) in Flanders and Walloonian (a French dialect) in Walloonia, the Brussels Region is officially bi-lingual. The tensions in Belgium between the regions are steeped in history, but came particularly to the fore post the second world war and are as much about economics and investment as they are about language.
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Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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There is also a third region, Ross, although small, with it's own local parliament, as Flanders and Walonia each have too, and it's the German speaking area, near the German border.
Danzig?
Gesundheit!
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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No, Sid, not Danzig! It's a small area near the Eifel, and the fact that it has a parliament as do Flanders and Walonia is because the various Belgian populations all agreed to this. Danzig, Sid, is in Poland.
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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I think Sid was having a joke Alexander
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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A joke, you say! Or something more serious?
Guest 645- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Danzig is now Gdansk but still in Poland...where thousands begin their march into the UK...according to the oracle AlexD
Marek
I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter)
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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good old lech opened up his offensive on the reds from the city, if my memory serves me correct.
"a small area near the Eifel"? That'll be the Isle de France then! Bloomin' frogs, always causing trouble.
BarryW
Glad someone understands my humour.
Ahem.
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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It ought be noted that when "good old lech!!!"? opened his offensive, Poland had by then, in the seventies, borrowed billions of dollars (and equivalent) from the USSR and TENS of billions of dollars from the West, and just kept going bankrupt!
But after Lech, it just got worse and worse! Now they don't borrow the money (they probably never even paid it back), they just get it given as a "state present" by the e.u. after it's been taxed from the western peoples.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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you just cannot trust these poles alexander, can you?
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
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yep poles apart howard.