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Rotterdam used to be a tough industrial city. Not any longer. It’s now got the energy of New York combined with the liveability of Copenhagen.
The flamboyant South African writer has eighty candles to blow out. Portrait of a complex artist.
The Amsterdam Museum ditches ‘Golden Age’ in favour of inclusive ’17th century’.
A selection of recent university press publications about the Low Countries in English.
It is strange how the Flemish media and government use the word vreemd, a word with connotations such as 'foreign', 'deviant', 'unusual'.
Visit any town or city in Belgium and you will find fries. Derek Blyth pays tribute to the humble fritkot.
A Nottingham language student shares a memory of her semester spent in the Netherlands.
Nowhere is the Gender Pay Gap as strongly present as in professional football and cycling. Hind Fraihi states its about time the gap gets closed.
Where once there was a checkpoint in France, the slogan 'Let us be ungovernable' can be read along the border. Luc Devoldere wonders what the graffiti artists mean by this.
Large-scale research shows that the Dutch are unanimous about what makes the Netherlands the Netherlands, despite sharp contradictions in the public debate.
The former cycling world champion Willy De Bruyn is the first trans person to get a street named after him in Brussels.
Derek Blyth points out a unique Belgian phenomenon, the trade in paper beach flowers.
Discover the other side of the popular seaside resort with its impressive Art Nouveau houses, adorned with loggias, glazed tiles and elegant ironwork.
The Netherlands celebrates extensively that women are allowed to vote there since 1919. Yet the struggle is far from over.
Derek Blyth expresses his love for the carillons of Flanders and the Netherlands.
No house is more Dutch than the terraced house. Yet this type of architecture has only recently come to be valued as it should. Time to redress the balance.
Where are the official apologies for the sufferings the Dutch and Belgians caused in their former colonies?
The European elections in the Low Countries did not provide clear-cut results. The voters were dispersed across multiple different parties.
Mobility policy in France, Belgium and the Netherlands is making way for the bicycle, with Groningen as a founding example.
Cross-border solidarity in Belgium and the Netherlands is more popular than the political debate suggests.
What's at stake on Sunday? Political scientist Herwig Reynaert is looking ahead.
Travel diaries written by Dutch men and women born more than two centuries ago suggest that stress is not a recent phenomenon.
Derek Blyth hits the road in a very Dutch phenomenon, the caravan.
A selection of recent university press publications about the Low Countries in English.
Reflecting on Leonardo da Vinci’s death, 500 years ago, Luc Devoldere makes a few comments on the notion of the uomo universale.
Thierry Baudet and Dries Van Langenhove receive far more attention from the media than is justified by their importance.
